Topic One: client’s rights

Question 1

Autonomy

Answer 1

respecting the right of the patient to make their own decision (includes right to refuse treatment)

Question 2

Beneficence

Answer 2

The duty to act to benefit or promote the health and well-being of others

Question 3

Nonmaleficence

Answer 3

Doing no harm to the patient

Question 4

Justice

Answer 4

The duty to distribute resources or care equally, regardless of personal attributes

Question 5

Fidelity

Answer 5

Maintaining loyalty and commitment to the patient and doing no wrong to the patient

Ex: maintaining expertise in nursing skill through continuing nurse education

Question 6

ethical dilemma

Answer 6

results when there is a conflict between two or more courses of action, each carrying favorable and unfavorable consequences.

Question 7

least restrictive alternative doctrine

Answer 7

mandates that care providers take the least drastic action to achieve a specific purpose.

For example, if you can treat someone safely for depression on an outpatient basis, hospitalization would be too restrictive and unnecessarily disruptive

Question 8

Emergency Commitment

Answer 8

used (1) for people who are so confused they cannot make decisions on their own or (2) for people who are so ill they need emergency admission

Question 9

What is the purpose of Emergency commitment?

Answer 9

The primary purpose of this type of hospitalization is observation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients who have mental illness or pose a danger to themselves or others

Question 10

Patients’ Rights Under the Law

Answer 10

Right to Treatment
Right to Refuse Treatment
Right to Informed Consent

Question 11

Right to Treatment

Answer 11

The right to be free from excessive or unnecessary medication

• The right to privacy and dignity
• The right to the least restrictive environment
• The right to an attorney, clergy, and private care providers
• The right to not be subjected to lobotomies, electroconvulsive treatments, and other treatments without fully informed consent

Question 12

Right to Refuse Treatment

Answer 12

Patients may withhold concent at any time, retract consent that are already given.

The state may override a patient’s right when the patient poses a danger to self or others.

In an emergency situation where a person may cause serious and imminent harm to self or others, institutions can medicate a person without a court hearing.

Question 13

implied consent

Answer 13

patient indicates a willingness to receive the medication, implied consent has occurred