Chapter 22

Question 1

Accountability

Answer 1

Answering for your own actions.

Question 2

Advocacy

Answer 2

Application of one’s skill and knowledge for the benefit of another person

Question 3

Autonomy

Answer 3

Freedom from external control

Question 4

Beneficence

Answer 4

Taking positive actions to help others

Question 5

Bioethics

Answer 5

Branch of ethics within the field of care

Question 6

Casuistry

Answer 6

Care-based reasoning which turns away from conventional principles of ethics and focuses in stead on details of the situation

Question 7

Code of Ethics

Answer 7

Set of guiding principles that all members of a profession accept

Question 8

Confidentiality

Answer 8

Health care team’s obligation to respect and maintain patient privacy

Question 9

Deontology

Answer 9

Defines actions as right of wrong based on their adherence to rules and principles such as fidelity to promises, truth-fullness, and justice

Question 10

Ethics

Answer 10

Study of what is right or wrong with our conduct

Question 11

Ethics of Care

Answer 11

Offers an alternative view to utilitarianism and deontology

Question 12

Feminist Ethics

Answer 12

View holds that the natural caring for others is the basis of moral behavior

Question 13

Fidelity

Answer 13

Faithfulness of the agreement to keep promises

Question 14

Justice

Answer 14

Fairness and the distribution. of resources

Question 15

Morals

Answer 15

Refers to judgement about behavior

Question 16

Nonmaleficence

Answer 16

To do no harm

Question 17

Utilitarianism

Answer 17

Measures the effect that an act will have. Deontology looks at the act itself and judges its rightness

Question 18

Value

Answer 18

Deeply held personal belief about the worth a person holds for an idea, custom, or object