Chapter 24

Question 1

Autonomy

Answer 1

Acting with personal self reliance. Patient gets to decide what they have done. Freedom from external control

Question 2

Beneficence

Answer 2

Benefiting others

Question 3

Caring

Answer 3

Care for; and emotional commitment to and a willingness to act on behalf of a person with whom a caring relationship exists

Question 4

Code of ethics

Answer 4

statement of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors generated by a profession

Question 5

Confidentiality

Answer 5

Believe that health related information about individual patient should not be revealed others

Question 6

Ethical dilemmas

Answer 6

Situations requiring moral judgment between two or more equally problem from alternatives; two or more competing moral norms are present creating a challenge about what to do. 2 or more moral norms are in conflict with each other

Question 7

Ethical out rage

Answer 7

Gross violation of commonly held standards of decency or human rights

Question 8

Ethics

Answer 8

Systematic study of rightness and wrongness of human conduct and character as knownby natural reason

Question 9

Fidelity

Answer 9

Being faithful

Question 10

Justice

Answer 10

Acting with fairness or equity

Question 11

Laws

Answer 11

Regulations established by government and applicable to people within a certain political subdivision

Question 12

Morals

Answer 12

Generally excepted customs principles or habits of right living in conduct and I society and the individual’s practice in relation to these

Question 13

Nonmaleficence

Answer 13

Prevent harm to others

Question 14

Professional ethics

Answer 14

Internal controls of a profession based on human values or moral principles

Question 15

Professional etiquette

Answer 15

Manners in attitudes generally excepted by members of a profession

Question 16

Veracity

Answer 16

Duty to tell the truth and avoid deception. Telling the truth