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This is a guide to our moral decision-making.
Ethics
Discuss patient information in waiting areas, hallways or elevators, access of information to all employees whose jobs require that information.
True
This is the process by which people with the legal right to consent to medical treatment for themselves or for a minor or a ward delegate that right to another person.
Proxy consent
This ethical theory states that people should adhere to their obligations and duties when engaged in decision making because upholding one’s duty is what is considered ethically correct.
Deontology
An individual will always keep his promises to a friend and will follow the law.
Deontology
Caring encompasses sympathy for and connection with people.
True
This ethical theory is concerned with the consequences of actions which means the basic standards for our actions being morally right or wrong depends on the good or evil generated.
Teleology
This is a type of teleological ethical theory that suggest an action is good if it produces or is likely to produce results that maximize the person’s self-interest as defined by him, even at the expense of others.
Ethical Egoism
It requires health care providers to keep a patient’s personal health information private unless consent to release the information is provided by the patient.
Confidentiality
The head nurse creates an employee vacation schedule after soliciting the vacation time preferences from all the employees and honor their choices.
Utilitarianism
One of the most basic rights of a patient. Patients have the right to decide to whom, when, and what extent of their health information is disclosed.
Autonomy
The actions are said to be fruitful if it promotes or tends to promote the fulfillment of goals constitutive of human nature and its happiness.
Eudaimonism
The process of understanding the risks and benefits of treatment and the doctors gives the patient the information about a particular treatment or test in order for the patient to decide whether or not he/she wishes to undergo a treatment or test is known as :
Informed consent
A moral theory that maintains that the rightness or wrongness of actions solely depends on their consequences is called as:
Utilitarianism
Disclosures made regarding a patient’s protected health information (PHI) without their authorization is considered a violation of the Data Privacy Act 2012 .
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