Quiz Reiew Flashcards
What are the basic ethical principles?
Autonomy Beneficence Non-maleficence Justice Veracity (Fidelity)
To be autonomous means to have ______ or to function ______.
Self-governance
Independently
In health care, autonomy is the right of the patient or research subject to have _______.
Self-determination
Autonomy:
Patients should be told the _______ about their condition
TRUTH
Autonomy: Patients should be ______ about risks and benefits of treatments.
INFORMED
Autonomy: Individuals are _________ tx even if all best information indicates that tx would be most beneficial
ALLOWED TO REFUSE
Autonomy does or does not negate responsibility?
DOES NOT
Autonomy: _______ is responsible for following applicable policies and procedures
Patient
Patient responsibilities under autonomy:
- Keeping appointments
- Ask more information if do not understand something
- Respect others, respect property
Provider autonomy: Autonomous professional practice is granted through __________.
Licensure laws
Provider autonomy: Health professionals must maintain ability to exercise ___________ within their scope of practice.
Independent judgement
Provider autonomy:
Patient’s right of autonomy should __________ at the price of physical therapist’s parallel right of autonomy.
not be permitted
Barriers to autonomy: (3)
- Barriers to participation in certain networks
- Restrictions on patient provider communication in the form of gag clauses
- Independent judgement compromised by organizational policy
What is a gag clause
Does not allow PT to talk to patient
Therapeutic exception/privilege (ONE exception)- what is it?
Physician feels it is too harmful for patient to know the full risk
Care carried out by health care provider that is in the best interest of the patient.
beneficence
Beneficence is manifestation of the provider’s _________ owed to his/her patients
Fiduciary duty
Bringing about positive good is _____.
Beneficence
Doing/intending no harm
Non-maleficence
Equity or fair treatment
Justice
______ maximizes fairness to all patients and potential patients
Justice
_____ applies to health care providers, disciplines, organizations, and delivery
Justice
What is distributive justice?
How equitably are health care services distributed at societal level?
Issues of distributive justice (4)
- Universal health care coverage
- Prevention/tx of AIDS
- Rationing health care interventions at end of life
- Heroic measures with premature births
What is comparative justice?
How is healthcare delivered at individual level?
What are issues of comparative justice? (2) What study shows this?
- Reimbursement and denial of care involving individual patients
- Disparate tx of patients on basis of age, disability, gender, race, ethnicity, religion
- -> Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-72) was breach of professional ethics
Federal law is based on _______
Individual justice
What is the federal anti-dumping law
Emergent patients and women in active labor must be stabilized before transferring to “charity facility”
Which ethical principle is not considered by all bioethicists to be foundational ethical principle?
Veracity
What is “an element of respect for persons”
Veracity
Antithetical to concept of medical paternalism-
Veracity
What is a therapeutic privilege in regards to veracity
Acceptable deception but rarely invoked (practitioner determines pt would be unable to handle information given to them)
What is a dual relationship?
professional has more than one role with patient
What is fidelity?
Loyalty
_____ defines fidelity as patient-caregiver relationship
Veatch (person?)
- PT as a health care provider has special position of trust in relation to the patient
- Patients interests are placed above all others
- Includes financial and other interests of the provider
–> what are these known as?
Fiduciary duties
What are the 3 components of RIPs model?
The realm
The individual process
The situation
What 3 parts make up the realm in RIPS?
Individual
Organizational/institutional
Societal
What 5 components make up the individual process in RIPS?
Moral sensitivity Moral judgement Moral motivation Moral courage Moral potency
What 5 components make up the situation in RIPs model?
Issue/problem Dilemma Distress Temptation Silence
______ (test) determines what level moral judgements are made
The defining issues test (DIT)
What does a higher score on the DIT mean?
Higher moral judgement ability
What is the average score for graduate students on the DIT?
What is the average for PTs in NJ on the DIT?
60
40
______ is a much more powerful predictor than _____ when predicting ethical decision making skills.
Education
Age
What are the 4 components of determinants of moral behavior?
What is this referred to as?
Moral sensitivity
Moral judgement
Moral motivation
Moral character
The Four Component Model
________ is the awareness of how our actions affect other people.
Moral sensitivity
A person without moral ______ fails to act morally because it does not occur to them that what they are doing may affect another person.
Ex: smoking is a legally mandated ______
Sensitivity
Sensitivity
________ is when the person is aware of possible lines of action and how people would be affected by each line of action
Ex: act of terrorism is justified in terms of revenge for previous wrongs is narrow in scope and often targeted at innocent people
Moral judgement
What is the component of the determinants of moral behavior that the DIT seeks to measure?
Moral judgement
A competing value completely compromised moral values as they are generally accepted by reasonable people (how we account for evil people)
- Moral values are not placed higher than other values
These fall under which of the determinants of moral behavior?
Moral motivation
Moral motivation: Other values such as ________ of protecting one’s organization replace concern for doing what is right
Self-actualization
5 roles of PTs (found in code of ethics)
Patient client management Teaching Research Consultation Administration
Physicians must be competent, must use competence in patient’s best interest, and are both intellectually and morally obliged to act as advocates for the sick –> These are the components of __________
Patient-Physician Covenant
What are the 3 foundations of ethical behavior?
Morality
Values
Duties
Relationships between people and how individuals can best live in peace and harmony with one another is ______
Morality
______ initially come from parents, then from peer group and friends, ultimately you choose who you want to be with
Values
Language that describes actions in response to claims on you that are either self imposed or imposed by others is _____
Duties
______ describe the actions required of you if you are to play your part in building a society where people can live in peace and harmony with others
Moral duties
On occasion, the values and duties of a person come into conflict with the morality of the subgroup they are a part of. This is _______
Moral conflict
institution permits abortions per Roe v Wade. Individual may be loyal to institution but have personal prohibition against abortion- this is an example of _____
Moral conflict
______ means soundness, reliability, wholeness, and integration of moral character
Moral Integrity
_______ is fidelity in adherence to moral norms
Integrity
_______ is the character trait of being faithful to moral values and standing up to their defense
Integrity
An individual acts __________ if he or she is motivated to do what is right because it is right, has tried with due diligence to determine what is right, intends to do what is right, and exerts an appropriate level of effort to do so (Beauchamp and Childress)
Conscientiously
Internal sanction that comes into play through critical reflection
Conscience
Conflicts of conscience sometimes emerge because of the demands of patients or institutions within which we work
Conscientious objection