A 24-Year-Old Man with Severe Cognitive Impairment, and No Relatives

question 19

Multiple Choice

A 24-year-old man with severe cognitive impairment, and no relatives participating in his care, needs to make a decision about removal of a brain tumor that will render him totally dependent for completion of all activities of daily living.The nurse participates in ethical decision-making on his behalf, knowing that the care recipient is unable to benefit from which of the following ethical concepts?

• A)Autonomy
• B)Justice
• C)Beneficence
• D)Advocacy

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Definitions:

Main Effect

The main effect is the impact of an independent variable on a dependent variable in a statistical model, ignoring other variables' influences.

Factor A

Factor A is often used in experimental design to represent one of the independent variables being tested for its effect on a dependent variable.

Reject

In statistical analysis, to refuse to accept a null hypothesis, based on the outcome of a test showing that observed data is unlikely under the hypothesis.

Null Hypothesis

A default hypothesis that there is no significant effect or difference, used as a starting point for statistical hypothesis testing.