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PSW Foundations Module 5 Test (Latest
2025/ 2026 Update) Questions & Answers
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Question:
How do you define advocacy in nursing?
Answer:
- Means to act on behalf of another person
- Speak for persons who cannot speak for themselves or intervening to ensure that views are heard
- Recognizes the need for improvement of systems and societal structures to create equity and better health for all
Question:
Characteristics of advocacy
Answer:
- Engaging others, exercising voice, mobilizing evidence to influence nursing practice and policy
- Speaking out against inequity and inequality
- Involved participating directly and indirectly in political processes and acknowledges the important roles of evidence, power, and politics in advancing policy options
Question:
What makes populations vulnerable?
Answer:
Vulnerable populations are groups and communities at higher risk for poor health as a result of the barriers they experience to social, economic, political, and environmental resources, as well as limitations due to illness or disability
Question:
What are health disparities
Answer:
Are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations
Question:
How is ethics related to advocacy?
Answer:
Advocacy requires that nurses have a strong awareness of the context in which situations arise, as well as the understanding of the influence of power and politics on how they make decisions.
Question:
Does the CNA code of ethics discuss advocacy? What is the link between advocacy and the code of ethics?
Answer:
Question:
Identify 2 examples of advocacy the CNA is currently involved in
Answer:
- CNA appeared before the house of common standing committee on health as a witness for their study into violence in health-care settings
- The advisory council on the implementation of national pharmacare released its final report recommending the federal government est. a universal, single payer pharmacare program. CNA made as submission to the council as part of their ongoing lobbying for national pharmacare program
Question:
Identify 4 examples of how nurses can advocate for a client/community/organization. Explain how these are ex of advocacy
Answer:
- Engaging others, exercising voice, mobilizing evidence to influence nursing practice and policy
- Speak out against inequity and inequality
- Participate directly/indirectly in political processes and acknowledge the important roles of evidence, power and politics in advancing public policy
Question:
What do nurses do to advocate toward eliminating social inequities?
Answer:
Include protecting the pt's right to choice by providing information, obtaining informed consent for all nursing care, and respecting pt's decisions
Question:
How do nurses protect pt's right to dignity through advocacy
Answer:
They advocate for appropriate use of interventions in order to minimize suffering, intervening if other people fail to respect the dignity of the pt, and working to promote health and social conditions that allow pts to live and die with dignity. Need to protect right to privacy and confidentiality by helping the pt access their health records (subject to legal requirements), intervening if other members of the health care team fail to respect the pt's privacy, and following policies that protect the pts privacy
Question:
How do nurses advocate on ethical issues?
Answer:
Nurses advocate for the discussion of ethical issues among health care team members, pts, and families and nurses should advocate for health policies that enable fair and inclusive allocation of resources
Question:
What is required for advocacy by a nurse?
Answer:
Advocacy requires that nurses have a strong awareness of the context in which situations arise as well as an understanding of the influence of power and politics on how they make decisions
Question:
What is constrained moral agency?
Answer:
Question:
Moral courage, moral agency
Answer:
- Moral courage: ability to act on decisions even when challenging
- Moral agency: ability to direct one's actions to a moral end
Question:
CNA code of ethics
Answer:
- promoting health and well-being
- promoting and respecting informed decision making
- Promoting justice
