Unit 8: Major Bioethical Principles

Question 1

Respect a person’s freedom to choose what is right for them

Answer 1

Autonomy

Question 2

Treat and provide care fairly to all patients

Answer 2

Justice

Question 3

All choices for a patient are made with the intent to do good

Answer 3

Beneficence

Question 4

Do no harm

Answer 4

Non-maleficence

Question 5

The nurse does not influence the patient’s choice. True or False

Answer 5

True

Question 6

How do nurses demonstrate respect for autonomy

Answer 6

1. Obtaining informed consent from the patient
2. Maintaining confidentiality
3. Accepting the situation when a patient refuses a medication

Question 7

Authority to make decisions and act in accordance with one’s personal knowledge

Answer 7

Professional Autonomy

Question 8

It is the basis for informed consent, truth-telling and confidentiality

Answer 8

Autonomy

Question 9

Patients have a right to fair and impartial treatment. True or False

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What are the moral rules under maleficence?

Answer 10

Do not kill
Do not cause pain or suffering
Do not incapacitate
DO not cause offense
Do not deprive others of the goods of life

Question 11

Patients best interest

Answer 11

Beneficence

Question 12

Is euthanasia a form of beneficence? True or False

Answer 12

False

Question 13

When patient autonomy is compromised, what must be the guiding ethic

Answer 13

Beneficence

Question 14

How do you promote a patient’s best interest?

Answer 14

• Understanding patient perspective
• Address misunderstandings and concerns
• Try to persuade the patient
• Negotiate a mutually acceptable plan of care
• Let the patient decide

Question 15

What are the rules of beneficence

Answer 15

1. Protect and defend the rights of others
2. Prevent harm
3. Remove conditions that will cause harm
4. Protect persons with disabilities
5. Rescue persons in danger

Question 16

What are the qualifications needed to exercise autonomy?

Answer 16

1. to understand the issue
2. to reason out and give one’s own opinion
3. to make an independent choice
4. to deliberate by weighing the pros and cons

Question 17

Legal document that serve as a prima facia evidence.

Answer 17

Informed or Legal Consent

Question 18

What are the elements of Consent

Answer 18

Threshold elements
Competence
Voluntariness

Question 19

What are the 2 main functions of informed consent?

Answer 19

Protective and Participative

Question 20

When does consent start

Answer 20

When there is already a decision

Question 21

It is the goodness in each personhood

Answer 21

Benevolence

Question 22

Attentiveness dictated by kindness that pushes us to alleviate the pain and discomfort of other people/

Answer 22

Prevalence

Question 23

Indirect voluntariness results when.

Answer 23

1. The doer can foresee the evil results.
2. The doer is free to refrain from doing it.
3. The doer has a moral obligation to do that.