WEEK 2&3

Question 1

Statements about broad general, philosophical concepts.

Answer 1

Ethical/Moral Principles

Question 2

It Provides the foundation for moral rules which are specific prescriptions for action.

Answer 2

Ethical/Moral Principles

Question 3

What are the components of ethical principles?

Answer 3

1. Autonomy
2. Nonmaleficence
3. Beneficence
4. Fidelity
5. Veracity
6. Accountability
7. Responsibility

Question 4

right of an individual to make one’s own decisions and the right to choose personal goals.

Answer 4

autonomy

Question 5

what are the components of autonomy?

Answer 5

a. Patient’s Rights
b. Patient’s Bill of Rights
c. Informed Consent
d. Proxy Consent
e. Confidentiality
f. Privacy

Question 6

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes “the inherent dignity” and the “equal and unalienable rights of all members of the human family”

Answer 6

Patient’s bill of rights

Question 7

Specific wording varies from hospital to hospital

Answer 7

Patient’s Bill of Rights

Question 8

Agreement by client to accept a course of treatment or a procedure after being provided complete information, including the benefits and risk of treatment, alternatives to treatment option that the patient wishes to receive or not to receive.

Answer 8

Informed Consent

Question 9

type of informed consent either in oral or written form

Answer 9

Express

Question 10

type of informed consent that individuals non verbal behavior indicates agreement.

Answer 10

Implied

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

proxy consent

Question 12

keeping of another person or entity’s information private

Answer 12

confidentiality

Question 13

refers to the right of an individual to keep his or health information private. It is also the right of an individual to withhold themselves and their lives from public scrutiny.

Answer 13

privacy

Question 14

“Do no harm”
not placing someone at risk of harm and unintentionally causing harm

Answer 14

Nonmaleficence

Question 15

doing good.
implement actions that benefit clients

Answer 15

beneficence

Question 16

involves loyalty, truthfulness, promise keeping, advocacy and respect.

Answer 16

Fidelity

Question 17

truth telling, having integrity, professional accountability and responsibility.

Answer 17

veracity

Question 18

Answerable to oneself and others for one’s own actions

Answer 18

accountability

Question 19

The specific accountability or liability associated with the performance of duties of a particular role.

Answer 19

responsibility

Question 20

Guidelines for determining when it is ethically permissible for a human being to engage in conduct in pursuit of a good end with full knowledge that the conduct will also bring about bad result.

Answer 20

Principle of double effect

Question 21

This principle is aimed in helping individuals discern how to properly avoid, limit, or distance themselves from evil in order to avoid a worse evil or to achieve an important good

Answer 21

principle of legitimate cooperation

Question 22

The sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily

Answer 22

Common good

Question 23

Protest and strikes of health personnel who refused to do their work because they had not been provided with necessary protections by the competent institutions (or even had not managed to obtain them personally on the market), must be considered as a legitimate defense or personal rights to safety.

Answer 23

Nurse defiance

Question 24

The principle states that only those decisions and task that cannot be effectively decided upon or performed by a supported or subsidized lower level authority ought to be relegated to a more central or higher authority.

Answer 24

Subsidiarity