Ch. 8: Ethics Flashcards
State laws requiring the reporting of births, deaths, certain infectious diseases, and child and elder abuse and neglect may require the paramedic to breach the obligation to protect the patient’s:
confidentiality
The obligation of a paramedic to treat all patients fairly is an example of the principle of:
Justice
The idea that each person must decide how to behave and that whatever decision that person makes is okay (acceptable or fine) is known as:
ethical relativism
The most common situations involving allocation of scarce resources that paramedics will usually face are those involving:
triage in mass casualty incidents
If you receive a copy of a valid DNR order after you have begun resuscitation attempts, you are ethically obligated to:
cease resuscitation efforts
Rules or standards that govern the conduct of members of a particular group or profession are called:
ethics
Social, religious, or personal standards of right and wrong are called:
morals
What question should guide the paramedic in ethical decision making?
“What is in the patient’s best interest?”
When students are working with patients under a preceptor in an EMS system, at what point should the preceptor inform the patients that their care, or part of it, is being performed by a student?
The patient should be informed before procedures are performed, and the student should be allowed to proceed only with the patient’s consent
You are driving home late one night from a state-to-state interhospital transport. You are still in the other state driving home at 020 0when you come upon a single-vehicle MVC on a deserted stretch of the HWY. You stop your ambulance, and you and your partner assess the scene and find out there is only one occupant of the vehicle and that the victim is unresponsive. If you initiate care and transport the patient to a hospital without summoning local EMS or fire, your actions could be considered:
illegal
