Practice Test: Ethical Challenges in Care of Older Adults Across Fagerberg & Engström (2012) and Bollig et al. (2015)
10-question practice test covering the meaning of caring for older people and ethical challenges in nursing homes across both articles.
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1 What was the main aim of Fagerberg & Engström (2012)?
- To measure staffing levels in nursing homes
- To illuminate the meaning of caring for older people as experienced by students and professionals
- To compare drug errors across hospitals
- To test an ethics education intervention
The study focused on understanding the meaning of caring for older people from the lived experiences of health care students and professionals.
2 In Fagerberg & Engström (2012), caring for older people is described mainly as the efficient completion of tasks.
- True
- False
The article presents caring as more than task completion; it is described as a deeper ethical and relational experience of helping someone who needs help.
3 Which of the following ideas are central in Fagerberg & Engström (2012)? Select all that apply.
Select all that apply
- Meeting the individual needs of older people
- Preserving the value of older people as human beings
- Treating all older people according to the same routine
- The importance of an ethical foundation for care
The study emphasises individual needs, preserving human value, and an ethical foundation. It does not support rigidly treating everyone in the same way.
4 According to Fagerberg & Engström (2012), which factor can make caring difficult?
- Too much resident autonomy
- Lack of an ethical foundation among co-workers, leaders, or the organisation
- Having regular ethics discussions
- High levels of professional support
The article notes that caring becomes difficult when the wider care environment does not share or support an ethical foundation for practice.
5 What two methods were combined in Bollig et al. (2015)?
- A randomized trial and a meta-analysis
- A questionnaire and registration of systematic ethics discussions
- A survey of family carers and laboratory testing
- Observation only
Bollig et al. used a two-tiered approach: a questionnaire to staff and a registration of ethics discussions from an Austrian model of practice.
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