Making Ethical Decisions

Question 1

What is a consequence-oriented theory that states decision should be made by determining what results will produce the best outcome for the most people?

Answer 1

Unitarianism

Question 2

What is duty oriented theory often called?

Answer 2

Deontological theory

Question 3

Utility is part of which theory?

Answer 3

Teleological

Question 4

What principal means that there are no exceptions from the rule?

Answer 4

Categorical imperative

Question 5

Which of Piaget’s developmental stages is called the formal operational stage, where children develop abstract, thought, and start to understand that there are different degrees of wrongdoing?

Answer 5

4th

Question 6

The name of the theory that states that people who with virtues will make the right decisions?

Answer 6

Virtue Ethics

Question 7

What were past virtues for nurses?

Answer 7

Nurses follow physicians orders; nurses should not question authority

Question 8

Values can be…

Answer 8

Based on religious beliefs: based on past experiences; subjective

Question 9

If a person can make decisions, based on one’s own reasons and motives, not manipulated or dictated to by external forces, they are said to be…

Answer 9

Autonomous or autonomy

Question 10

What value theory states that the rightness or wrongness of the act depends on its intrinsic nature and not the outcome?

Answer 10

Duty Orientated

Question 11

Paternalistic view of patient care threatens a patient…..

Answer 11

Autonomy

Question 12

Is a categorical imperative based upon?

Answer 12

A determined principal

Question 13

What explains virtue ethics?

Answer 13

Traits, characteristics, and virtues a moral person should have

Question 14

What is the first duty of healthcare practitioners as defined by beneficence?

Answer 14

Promote health for the patient above all other considerations

Question 15

Today, virtues for nurses focus on which of the following?

Answer 15

Patient advocacy; patient education

Question 16

Which principles of healthcare ethics does the Hippocratic oath support?

Answer 16

Nonmaleficence

Question 17

Autonomy is defined as…

Answer 17

The capacity to be one’s own person, and make one’s own decisions without being manipulated by external forces

Question 18

Substituting medical providers opinion of what is best for the patient is called….

Answer 18

Paternalism

Question 19

If an individual is provided his her do, it is called….

Answer 19

Justice

Question 20

Principal means that there are no exceptions to the rule?

Answer 20

Categorical, imperative

Question 21

What are act performed by a healthcare practitioner to help people stay healthy, or recover from an illness

Answer 21

Beneficence

Question 22

A health difference that is closely linked with economic, environmental, or social disadvantage is called…

Answer 22

Disparity

Question 23

What is the meaning of non-maleficence

Answer 23

Do no harm

Question 24

What does autonomy relate to?

Answer 24

How much discretion a person has

Question 25

Who are in the most likely position to violate confidentiality rules?

Answer 25

Health care practitioners

Question 26

What is the common argument regarding healthcare entitlement that people would agree to?

Answer 26

The distribution of scarce resources, and the expense of providing them, do not allow us to provide all care for all patients

Question 27

What is a categorical imperative based upon?

Answer 27

A determined principal

Question 28

On social condition, what is striving for the highest possible standard of health for all with special attention to the needs of those at greatest risk called?

Answer 28

Health equity

Question 29

Our ways that patient confidentiality can be breached?

Answer 29

Talking about a patient in the hallway; discussing a patient with an acquaintance

Question 30

Under nonmaleficence, and the principle of double effect, the ______ of any treatment must always outweigh the ____.

Answer 30

Benefit; harm

Question 31

What are examples that do not support role fidelity?

Answer 31

A nursing assistant administering an intravenous drug to a patient; a medical assistant diagnosing a patient’s condition

Question 32

The health information portability and accountability act mandates the privacy and confidentiality of what type of health information?

Answer 32

Computerized, medical information; medical records

Question 33

An individual is provided his or her due, it is called

Answer 33

Justice

Question 34

Example of a medical provider, not always telling the truth is when a doctor uses what type of intervention?

Answer 34

Placebo

Question 35

What is another term for telling the truth in Health Care ?

Answer 35

Veracity

Question 36

A nurse believes her mother has the flu, so she brings home samples of an antiviral medication for her mother to take

Answer 36

Roll Fidelity

Question 37

Receptionist at an OB/GYN office knows that a friend is probably pregnant, but the friend has not said anything to her. The friend is a patient in the office and was recently seen by the physician, so the receptionist looks in her medical record to see if her friend is pregnant.

Answer 37

Confidentiality

Question 38

Tells a patient with a sexually transmitted infection not to reveal her sexual partners. Those sexual partners ultimately seek care for the STI.

Answer 38

Nonmaleficence

Question 39

A drug for a patient that that he knows is merely a placebo

Answer 39

Veracity

Question 40

Treated a female patient for a serious disease. The patient is a friend of the physicians wife. The physician mentions her illness to his own wife, who calls the patient to express sympathy.

Answer 40

Confidentiality