MODULE 11

Question 1

What is the practical science of the morality of human conduct?

Answer 1

Ethics

Question 2

Ethics as a ________, deals with a complete and systematically arranged body of data.

Answer 2

Science

Question 3

Ethics is ______ because it is related to the dictates of reason, how it should be.

Answer 3

Moral

Question 4

Ethics defines _______________ because it deals with voluntary and free human activity and how one should act.

Answer 4

Human Conduct

Question 5

True or False:

Ethics is NORMATIVE, not DESCRIPTIVE.

Answer 5

TRUE

Question 6

The study of ethics can be divided into 3 which is?

Answer 6

Health ethics, Professional ethics, and Bioethics.

Question 7

What term usually refers to the moral status of an individual as an agent or person not only genetically human and biologically alive but as also bearing the moral rights and obligations of membership in the social community?

Answer 7

Personhood

Question 8

Biologically, a person possesses the
genetic code of the _____ _________, thus, with the potentiality to be a human person from the beginning of life.

Answer 8

Homo Sapiens

Question 9

__________________ a person is with consciousness, superior intelligence (the ability to reason), and free will.

Answer 9

Philosophically

Question 10

__________________, personhood is one’s ability to have relationships
with other human beings and the special relationship human beings have with God.

Answer 10

Theologically

Question 11

All people have the same 4 fundamental rights:

Answer 11

Life, Truth, Minimum healthcare, Justice.

Question 12

A person has an ___________________, a single final end (eternal happiness in union with our Creator).

Answer 12

Ultimate Destiny

Question 13

To fulfill this ultimate destiny, one has needs that must be met. WHAT ARE THOSE 5 NEEDS?

Answer 13

Biological, Psychological, Social, Spiritual, and Creative

Question 14

Individual community members are in a ______________________ of giving and taking with the community.

Answer 14

Reciprocal Relationship

Question 15

The ___________________ is an outward expression of a person’s choices. It is a product of knowledge of what it is about and what it means, and freedom to do or leave it undone without coercion or constraint.

Answer 15

Human Act

Question 16

What are the three (3) factors determining the human act?

Answer 16

Object
Circumstance
End

Question 17

What term defines the specific action, the means, what the person chooses to do now, and the proximate end of the act.

Answer 17

Object

Question 18

What term means the purpose of the agent, the movie, the ulterior end for whose sake one chooses to do this here and now.

Answer 18

The end

Question 19

What term describes who,
where, by whom, when of the context of the action.

Answer 19

Circumstances

Question 20

What is a personal practical judgment of reason upon a particular individual act as good and to be performed or as evil and to be avoided?

Answer 20

Conscience

Question 21

What are the 3 dimensions of conscience?

Answer 21

General moral awareness
Search for specific moral values
The Concrete Judgment

Question 22

What dimension of conscience is defined?

Awareness is the general sense of value characteristic of the human person–we are aware that we should do good and avoid evil. People argue about right and wrong–a “sure sign” of this general awareness, as there would be no debate unless we had this experience. So, this is the kind of conscience we are “born” with.

Answer 22

General Moral Awareness

Question 23

What dimension of conscience is defined?

It is the actual “concrete” judgment we make regarding an immediate action. Conscience makes specific decisions.

Answer 23

The concrete Judgement

Question 24

What dimension of conscience is defined?

It is conscience’s (our) search for what really is a good course of action and what is not. We look at human behavior and the world
to determine this.

Answer 24

Search for Specific Values

Question 25

What term pertains to philosophies that govern the conduct of a person or group practicing a profession?

Answer 25

Professional Ethics

Question 26

What are the 4 criteria to indicate a profession?

Answer 26

Specific training Autonomy Public service Ethical codes

Question 27

According to _______________ of a profession, knowing is systematic knowledge and intellect, doing is a technical skill and trained capacity, and helping is consolidating knowledge and skill to work in the service of others. All three are elements of a profession.

Answer 27

Merton’s values

Question 28

Barber considered four essential attributes of professional behavior that includes: READ!

Answer 28

High degree of generalized and systematic knowledge, Primary orientation of the community interest rather than individual self-interest, A high degree of self-control or behavior through codes of ethics internalized in the process of work socialization and through voluntary associations organized and operated by the work specialists themselves, System of reward that is primarily a set of symbols of work achievement and thus ends in themselves, not means to some end of individual self-interest.

Question 29

What scale of professionalism considered the professional practice as a full-time occupation. Professionals are committed to a calling; that is, they treat their professions “as an enduring set of normative and behavioral expectations?'

Answer 29

Moore and Rosenblum

Question 30

What is health according to WHO (1975)?

Answer 30

"Health is the state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

Question 31

What is a special calling of service characterized by a trusting and caring relationship that cannot be measured in monetary terms.

Answer 31

Healthcare profession

Question 32

True or False: Healthcare profession is a career, not a vocation.

Answer 32

False - The healthcare profession is not a career (like accountancy or engineering) … it is a vocation (priesthood)…

Question 33

What is the obligation to provide healthcare belonging to the individual patient, the own healthcare professional, or society?

Answer 33

Health Provision

Question 34

Who is one who passed a government examination and pays an annual license to practice. He is committed to healthcare.

Answer 34

Healthcare professional/ Healthcare Provider

Question 35

What do you call the moral excellence that puts order into life and makes both the possessor and the act good.

Answer 35

Virtues

Question 36

What term refers to the faithfulness to trust and promise.

Answer 36

Fidelity

Question 37

What is the basis of the patient-healthcare professional relationship, the research subject-researcher-public relationship, and the student-teacher relationship?

Answer 37

Trust

Question 38

What term refers to the combination of truthfulness and integrity?

Answer 38

Honesty

Question 39

What term under honesty avoids communicating wrong or incomplete information likely to mislead or to deceive?

Answer 39

Truthfulness

Question 40

What term under honesty refers to being true to oneself or wholeness?

Answer 40

Integrity

Question 41

What is recognizing one’s capabilities and limitations? It is accepting deserved praise graciously and denying undeserved praise.

Answer 41

Humility

Question 42

What is feeling the loss/suffering of another with an attempt beyond the obligation to help or avoid that loss/suffering?

Answer 42

Compassion

Question 43

What is the constant will to give another his due. It is adjusting what is owed to the specific needs of the person, even if those needs do not strictly fit what is owed?

Answer 43

Justice

Question 44

What is doing what is right without undue fear. It is resoluteness, being true to one’s calling despite the risk of being wrong or private guilt. It relates to heroism.

Answer 44

Courage

Question 45

What inclines one to seek God’s help in everything one does? It recognizes that prayer provides consolation, encouragement, and strength.

Answer 45

Prayerfulness