Test 3 Flashcards
What is beneficence?
Showing kindness or doing good for others allowing for a morally right outcome
What is nonmaleficence?
Specfically causing no harm
What are regulated professions’ common elements?
Educational standards
Provinical and territorial examinations
Practictioner’s scope of practice
Curbing of individual’s practice if standards are not met
Formal complaints process for the public
Complaints investigation and follow up
Title protection
Competence and quality assurance
Practice settings include:
The community
Hospitals
Long-term care facilites
Rehabillitation centres
Hospices
A variety of clinics, offies, and family practice
Primary care settings
How many Canadians 12 and over reported that they did not have a regular health care provider in 2019?
14.5%
What ways are regions experimenting with to deliver primary care?
Mulitdisciplinary teams
Extended office hours
Use of electronic communication/portals to answer questions
Home based care
Interprofessional collaboration
Community-based care
When in Ontario did pharmacists begin to be able to prescribe certain medications for 13 common ailments?
January 1, 2023
What is the Health Care Connect program?
A program to help Ontarians find primary health care providers
What are the two categories of health care providers?
Conventional
Complementary and alternative
What are the two subdivisions of conventional health care providers?
Core health professionals
Allied health professionals
What are examples of core health professionals under the conventional health care provider category?
Doctors
Nurses
Ophthalmologists
Psychiatrists
What are examples of allied health professionals under the conventional health care providers category?
Osteopaths
Personal support workers (PSWs)
Optometrists
Psychologists
What are examples of complementary and alternative health care providers?
Indigeneous healers
Acupuntucture practitioners
Homeopathic doctors
Reflexologists
When does opposition of alternative medicine usually arise?
When people use it in place of scientifically proven treatments
Why may individuals disregard conventional medicine?
Patient may have had a bad experience
Patient may hold a belief system that contradicts mainstream medicine
Patient may have received an alternative treatment that appeared to have worked previously
Mainstream medicine may not have a solution
Are chiropractors conventional or alternative?
Alternative
Can you call yourself an RDH if you are not registered with the CDHO?
No
What is 811?
A replacement for Telehealth Ontario to access advise from qualified health professionals
What is ethics?
The study of standards of right and wrong in human behaviour
A code of behaviour or conduct
What is morality?
A system of beliefs about what is right and wrong, encompassing a person’s values, beliefs, and sense of duty and responsibility
What are morals?
What a person believes to be right and wrong regarding how to treat others and how to behave in an organized society
What are values?
Beliefs important to an individual that guide a person’s conduct and the decisions they make
How does teleological theory define an action?
As right or wrong depending on the results it produces
What ethical theory demands that a moral and honest action is taken, regardless of the outcome?
Deontological theory
What ethical theory states that a person of moral character will act wisely, fairly, honestly, and will uphold the principles of justice?
Virtue ethics
What ethical theory follows philosophies and rules set out by a higher power?
Divine command ethics
What are the ethical principles that are relevant to health care?
Beneficence
Nonmaleficence
Respect
Autonomy
Truthfulness
Fidelity
Justice
True or False: If a patient has a right within health care or to health care, for the most part, the health care professional has the duty to grant that right.
True
True or False: to fulfil one’s duty to honour patients’ rights, the health care professional must either act to carry out a responsibility or refrain from acting or interfering in a situation.
True
What was the point of the original Hippocratic Oath?
Provide ethicial and professional responsibilty of the physician to do their best for the patient, preserve life at all costs, and make decisions in the best interest of the patient.
What led to a revised version of the Hippocractic Oath?
Attitude towards patient autonomy changing over the years
What has made the allocation of resources an increasing concern in the health care industry?
Rising health care costs
Expensive technologies
Limited access to many services
What are some examples of resource allocation issues?
Organ transplantation
Finances and resources
Northern access to health care
End of life issues that raise ethical concerns include
Patients who wish to withdraw life-saving measures
Issuing do-not-resuscitate orders
Requesting support or palliative care in the face of a terminal illness
What is the purpose of euthanasia?
To deliberately end a life in order to relieve pain and suffering due to an incurable disease
What are the various categories of euthanasia?
Voluntry euthanasia
Involuntary euthanasia
Active euthanasia
Passive euthanasia
Physician-assisted suicide
The act of ending or assisting to end a person’s life is illegal in most countries except for
Passive euthanasia
Mentally competent adult patients have the right to
Refuse medical treatment
Request a DNR order
Ask for only comfort measures