Ethics Flashcards
____ is a philosophical and practical science that deals with the study of the morality of human acts or human conduct.
Ethics
____ comprises data on the morality of human acts that are put together and arranged in order along with the causes and reasons by which said data are held to be factual thereby making a systematized body of knowledge.
Ethics as a Science
____ deals with the ultimacy of the cause, principle, and truth concerning the morality of human conduct in the light of human reason alone.
Ethics as a Philosophical Science
____ provides a body of knowledge which is not only a body that enriches and sustains the intellect with more learning but most importantly, a body of knowledge which, by nature of its learning, is applied in the performance of human conduct.
Ethics as a Practical Science
____ employs the power human reason which is purely a natural process. It is not based on the teaching of the Catholic Church or any systems of belief, nor it is based on the Bible.
Ethics as a Natural Science
____ is the science of human acts with the reference to right and wrong.
Ethics
____ is the study of the rectitude of human conduct.
Ethics
____ is the scientific inquiry of the principles of morality.
Ethics
____ is the quality of human acts where the acts could either be good or right, evil or wrong. This quality indicates and determines whether the kind of human act that is performed is good or bad.
Morality
TRUE OR FALSE.
Both ethics and morality deal with a human act or human conduct.
True
____ studies about morality.
Ethics
____ gives a perspective of what to study about, that i the rectitude of whether an act is good or bad.
Morality
____ provides with a quality that determines and distinguishes right conduct from wrong conduct.
Morality
____ pertains to the knowledge of what to study about.
Ethics
____ pertains to the application of knowledge.
Morality
____ provides learning about the morality of human conduct.
Ethics
____ provides ways in practicing what is learned.
Morality
____ is the “word.”
Ethics
____ is the “flesh.”
Morality
____ is the “theory.”
Ethics
____ is the “practice.”
Morality
____ is something that men create in their best moments to protect themselves in their worst moments.
Law
____ deals with the minimum standards of human conduct.
Law
____ deals with the maximum standards of human conduct.
Morality
Sources of Ethics/Moral Philosophy
- Human reason
- Contemporary and historical experiences
____ is the primary source of ethics/moral philosophy.
Human reason
____ seeks to set norms or standards for conduct. The term is commonly used in reference to the discussion of general theories about what one ought to do.
Normative Ethics
Application of Ethical Theories
Inquiries are made about how a medical technologist should behave
Normative Ethics
Application of Ethical Theories
What ought to be done in certain situations
Normative Ethics
Application of Ethical Theories
What type of character one should behave
Normative Ethics
Application of Ethical Theories
How it should be done in dealing with patients and the public, colleagues in the profession, physicians, and toward the hospital as a whole.
Normative Ethics
Application of Ethical Theories
Inquiries are made about how a medical technologist should behave
Normative Ethics
____ is also known as Analytical Ethics.
Meta-ethics
Meta-ethics is also known as ____.
Analytical Ethics
____ does not deal with the substantive content of ethical theories or moral judgments but rather with questions about their nature, such as the question whether moral judgments are objective or subjective.
Meta-ethics
Application of Ethical Theories
Inquiries are made on the nature of the moral judgment, ethical statements, and attitudes of a medical technologist including its status, foundations, and scope of moral values.
Meta-ethics
Application of Ethical Theories
What is an ideal medical technologist?
Meta-ethics
Application of Ethical Theories
Is an ideal medical technologist a perfect medical technologist?
Meta-ethics
Application of Ethical Theories
Is the transfusion of unscreened blood unit ethically wrong or refusal of transfusion based on religious belief is ethically right?
Meta-ethics
____ is also known as Practical Ethics.
Applied Ethics
Applied ethics is also known as ____.
Practical Ethics
____ is the application of normative ethical theories to practical problems. It is a definite application of ethics to a specific bioethical issue.
Applied Ethics
____ is the field or tool in determining the quality of a human act.
Ethics
____ refers to, in Socrates words, “how we ought to live” and why.
Morality
Parameters to determine the human act is morally good
- The act must be good in itself.
- The act must be good in its end.
- The circumstances other than the end must be good.
____ is performed by a person with full knowledge or intelligence and on his/her own volition and free will.
Human act
Factors Affecting Human Acts
- Knowledge
- Freedom
- Voluntariness
The absence of the factors affecting human acts will qualify as a ____.
Act of a Human
____ means actus humanus.
Human act
____ means actus hominis.
Act of a Human
Human Act vs. Act of Human
A medical technologist who acted under threat, duress, coercion, or compulsion.
Act of Human
Human Act vs. Act of Human
The acts of a medical technologist who lost his/her sanity during the course of employment.
Act of Human
Human Act vs. Act of Human
Benevolence and charitable acts of a medical technologist to needy and indigent patients.
Human Act
____ refer to a new field devoted to human survival and an improved quality of life.
Bioethics
____ is the study of the morality of human conduct concerning human life in all its aspects from the moment of its conception to its natural end.
Bioethics
____ is the study of the morality of human conduct
concerning health and health care.
Health Ethics
____ pertains to medical services, nursing care, and all other types of health services given by health care practitioners.
Health Care
TRUE OR FALSE.
Health ethics is a part of Bioethics.
True
TRUE OR FALSE.
Bioethics is a part of Health Ethics.
False
____ is concerned about life only in relation to health.
Health Ethics
____ is concerned not just about health but also about other fields in relation to life.
Bioethics
____ regulates human conduct in the practice of health care.
Health Ethics
____ regulates human conduct not only in the practice of health care but also in all aspects of human life.
Bioethics
____ is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions.
Health Care
____ is essential to the practice of health care for it provides knowledge of the morality of an act and serves as a guiding principle for health care practitioners.
Ethics
____ is that from which something proceeds in any manner, whatsoever.
Principle
____ refers to a fundamental rule of moral law containing certain truth from which knowledge of a definite moral action for performance proceeds along with the provision of solution to specific moral problems or issues.
Moral Principle
Moral Principles in Health Care
____ provides that good must be done either to oneself or to others.
Principle of Beneficence
Moral Principles in Health Care
____ is a fundamental moral principle that binds and urges everyone to do what is good and perform for good as a moral obligation.
Principle of Beneficence
Moral Principles in Health Care
____ provides that evil or harm should not be inflicted either on oneself or on others.
Principle of Non-Maleficence
Moral Principles in Health Care
____ is a fundamental moral principle that binds and urges everyone to avoid inflicting harm as a moral obligation.
Principle of Non-Maleficence
Moral Principles in Health Care
Sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect of bringing about a good result even though it
would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end.
Principle of Double Effect
Moral Principles in Health Care
____ is an act that is directly intended with an evil effect that is not directly intended though foreseen or foreseeable.
Principle of Indirect Voluntary Act
Moral Principles in Health Care
____ refers to the expression of one’s responsibility to take care of, nurture and cultivate what has been entrusted to him.
Principle of Stewardship
Moral Principles in Health Care
____ refers to a moral principle by which certain actions are determined and deemed as just or unjust, as due or undue.
Principle of Justice
____ is the rendering of what is one’s due. A person who is justly doing an act to another person gives the latter what is his due.
Justice
____ is a moral power of performing, of possessing, or of requiring something which is due.
Right
____ is defined as a moral obligation incumbent upon a person of doing or omitting (avoiding) something.
Duty
____ pertains to a fair scheme of distributing society’s benefits and burdens to its members.
Distributive Justice
What are the two alternatives in Distributive Justice?
- Utilitarian Alternatives
- Egalitarian Alternatives
____ means maximizing strategies to achieve the greatest amount of good or minimizing strategies to reduce the amount of potential harm.
The Utilitarian Alternatives
The Utilitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority to those for whom treatment has the highest probability of medical success.
Medical Success Principle
The Utilitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority to the candidate who is of greatest immediate service to the larger group under the circumstances.
Principle of Immediate Usefulness
The Utilitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority to those candidates who require proportionally smaller amount of resources and therefore more lives would be saved.
Principle of Conservation
The Utilitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority to those who have the largest responsibility to dependents.
Parental Role Principle
The Utilitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority to those believed to have the greatest general social worth thus leading to the good society.
Principle of General Social Value
____ represent maintaining or restoring the equality of the person in need.
The Egalitarian Alternatives
The Egalitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority to no one because not all can be saved.
Principle of Saving No One
The Egalitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority to the candidates with most pressing medical needs.
Principle of Medical Neediness
The Egalitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority to the most helpless or generally neediest in an attempt to bring them nearly as possible to the level of well-being equal to that enjoyed by others.
Principle of General Neediness
The Egalitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority gives priority to those who arrive first.
Principle of First Come Rirst Served Basis
The Egalitarian Alternatives
The ____ gives priority to those selected by
chance or random.
Principle of Random Selection
____ refers to a certain sense of pain or discomfort necessarily associated with one’s submission for health care intervention.
Due Burden
____ refers to a certain sense of pain or discomfort
brought about by a certain medical, experimental or surgical proceeding which is of no direct benefit to the subject. It may be deemed unnecessary as far as the subject is concerned.
Undue Burden
Identify the Kind of Healthcare Burden
Buying medicines at the pharmacy as prescribed
Due Burden
Identify the Kind of Healthcare Burden
The pain brought about by intravenous insertion and injection
Due Burden
Identify the Kind of Healthcare Burden
Donation of one’s organ
Undue Burden
Identify the Kind of Healthcare Burden
Paying for somebody else’s hospital bill
Undue Burden
Cooperation comes from the Latin word “cum” which means ____.
with
Cooperation comes from the Latin word “operari” which means ____.
to work
____ is working with another in the performance of an action.
Cooperation
Moral Principles in Health Care
____ pertains to the evil of an action shared together by individuals in the achievement of an evil practice whose culpability may vary according to the gravity of the act partaken.
Principle of Cooperation
Various Degrees of Cooperation
____ consists of an explicit intention and willingness for
the evil act. The one formally cooperating categorically wills and intends the evil action.
Formal Cooperation
Various Degrees of Cooperation
____ consists of an act other than the evil act itself but
facilitates and contributes to its achievement. The one materially cooperating may provide means apart from the evil act itself which is used to carry out the performance of an evil act.
Informal Cooperation
Various Degrees of Cooperation
____ consists of direct participation in the performance of an evil act. The one directly cooperating gets involved by openly and straightforwardly taking part in the practice of an evil action.
Direct Cooperation
Various Degrees of Cooperation
____ consists of an act that is not intimately connected with the performance of an evil act as in formal and direct cooperation but whose effect may have an indirect bearing upon it.
Indirect Cooperation
Various Degrees of Cooperation
____ consists of an act that is intimately linked with the performance of an evil action due to its close bearing.
Proximate Cooperation
Various Degrees of Cooperation
____ consists of an act with a distant bearing upon or connection with the execution of an evil act.
Remote Cooperation
Moral Principles in Health Care
The whole implies the existence of its parts. The existence of parts indicates the existence of the whole. Parts as such should continuously be connected with the whole of which they are parts without which they cease to be.
Principle of Totality
Moral Principles in Health Care
Means that what an individual, lower or smaller group can achieve within his/her or its capacity should not be taken away and transmitted to the custody and performance of a higher or bigger group.
Principle of Subsidiarity
____ is concerned with the standards and moral conduct that govern a profession and its members.
Professional Ethics
The Code of Ethics for Medical Technologists was first published by the ____.
Philippine Association of Medical Technologist (PAMET)
The Code of Ethics for Medical Technologists was first published in ____.
1968
The Code of Ethics for Medical Technologists was first revised in ____.
1997
Revised Code of Ethics for Medical Technologists
Professional Regulatory Board of Medical Technology Resolution No. 72 series of 2022: Code of Ethics of The Medical Technology Profession
Code of Ethics of The Medical Technology Profession
PRB Medical Technology Resolution No. 72 s. 2022
PRB Medical Technology Resolution No. 72 s. 2022 was published in ____.
September 13, 2022
Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession
Article 1
General Principles
Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession
Article 2
Responsibilities to Patients
Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession
Article 3
Responsibilities to Self and to the Profession
Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession
Article 4
Responsibilities to Colleagues and other Professionals
Code of Ethics of the Medical Technology Profession
Article 5
Professional Relationship with the Health Product Industry
