CHAPTER II

Question 1

What are the ethical/moral principles?

Answer 1

1. Autonomy
2. Nonmaleficence
3. Beneficence
4. Fidelity
5. Veracity
6. Accountability
7. Responsibility

Question 2

Right to make one’s own decisions

Answer 2

Autonomy

Question 3

Parts of Autonomy:

Answer 3

a. patient’s rights
b. patient’s bill of rights
c. informed consent
d. proxy consent
e. confidentiality
f. privacy

Question 4

a document that provides patients with information on how they can reasonably expect to be treated during the course of their hospital stay.

Answer 4

Patient’s Bill of Rights

Question 5

agreement by a client to accept a course of treatment or procedure after being provided complete information.

Answer 5

Informed consent

Question 6

What are the 2 types of consent:

Answer 6

*Express
*Implied

Question 7

Consent that is either in oral or written form

Answer 7

Express type of consent

Question 8

Individual’s non-verbal behavior indicates agreement

Answer 8

Implied Consent

Question 9

3 major elements of informed consent

Answer 9

1. Consent must be given voluntarily
2. Consent must be given by a client or individual with the capacity & competence to understand
3. Client or individual must be given enough information to be the ultimate decision maker.

Question 10

The process by which people with legal right to consent to medical treatment for themselves or for a minor or a ward, delegate that right to another person.

Answer 10

proxy consent

Question 11

3 fundamental constraints for proxy consent:

Answer 11

1. The person making the delegation must have the right to consent.
2. The person must be legally & medically competent to delegate the right to consent.
3. The right to consent must be delegated to a legally & medically competent adult.

Question 12

Keeping of another person or entity’s information private

Answer 12

Confidentiality

Question 13

Confidentiality is based on what law?

Answer 13

Data privacy act - RA 10173, 2012

Question 14

refers to the right of an individual to keep his or her health information private.

Answer 14

privacy

Question 15

the right of individuals to withhold themselves and their lives from public scrutiny

Answer 15

privacy

Question 16

not placing someone at risk of harm & unintentionally causing harm

Answer 16

Nonmaleficence

Question 17

implement actions that benefit clients.

Answer 17

Beneficence

Question 18

Fairness or weighing the facts carefully in order to divide time or services justly.

Answer 18

justice

Question 19

Faithful to agreements and promises

Answer 19

Fidelity

Question 20

Truth telling; Having integrity

Answer 20

Veracity

Question 21

answerable to oneself and others for one’s own actions.

Answer 21

Accountability

Question 22

the specific accountability or liability associated with the performance of duties of a particular role.

Answer 22

Responsibility

Question 23

It provides specific guidelines for determining when it is morally permissible to perform an action in pursuit of a good end in full knowledge that the action will also bring about bad results.

Answer 23

Principle of Double Effect

Question 24

aimed in helping individuals discern how to properly avoid, limit, or distance themselves from evil in order to avoid a worse evil or to achieve an important good.

Answer 24

Principle of legitimate cooperation

Question 25

The sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.

Answer 25

Common good

Question 26

Protests and strikes of health personnel who refused to do their work because they had not been provided with necessary protections by the competent institutions.

Answer 26

Nurses’ defiance

Question 27

nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization.

Answer 27

Subsidiarity