Deck 18: Healthcare Ethics

Question 1

This is a set of rules about good and bad behavior published by healthcare professional associations for their members.

A) Code of ethics
B) Professional ethics
C) Creed
D) Autonomy

Answer 1

Code of ethics

Question 2

This experimental technique uses genes to prevent or treat diseases.

A) Gene therapy
B) Pharmacogenetics
C) Stem cell transplants
D) Cloning

Answer 2

Gene therapy

Question 3

Which of the following terms best describes promoting health in patients and assisting patients to recover from illness.

A) Nonmaleficence
B) Beneficence
C) Autonomy
D) Justice

Answer 3

Beneficence

Question 4

Which of the following is an important advance in genomic medicine?

A) Genetic testing
B) Pharmacogenetics
C) Stem cell transplants
D) All of the above

Question 5

What is the role of the Council of Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA)?

A) Develops ethical recommendations for medical assistants
B) Analyzes ethical issues and provides recommendations to physicians
C) Analyzes technology issues and provides guidelines to hospitals and clinics
D) Develops confidentiality guidelines for healthcare professionals

Question 6

This term means our internal principles that distinguish between right and wrong.

A) Ethics
B) Justice
C) Personal ethics
D) Morals

Question 7

Which ethical principle means the freedom to determine one's own actions and decisions?

A) Beneficence
B) Justice
C) Nonmaleficence
D) Autonomy

Question 8

This term includes doing what one considers to be correct. It includes a person's honesty, commitment, integrity, fairness, and accountability.

A) Morals
B) Ethics
C) Personal ethics
D) Professional ethics

Question 9

Which ethical principle obligates healthcare professionals to not inflict intentional harm to patients?

A) Beneficence
B) Autonomy
C) Nonmaleficence
D) Justice

Question 10

The manipulation of genetic material in cells to change hereditary traits or produce a specific result.

A) Cloning
B) Genetic engineering
C) Genetic testing
D) Pharmacogenetics

Question 11

This allows the court to make decisions for the child.

A) Safe Haven Infant Protection Laws
B) HIPAA
C) Patient Self-Determination Act
D) Parens patriae doctrine

Question 12

The process of creating a genetically identical biologic entity.

A) Cloning
B) Genetic engineering
C) Genetic testing
D) Pharmacogenetics

Question 13

Which of the following statements is true?

A) Our personal morals impact our professional performance.
B) Our personal morals may negatively impact our professional performance.
C) Our personal morals should always impact our professional performance as professionals.
D) All of the above are true.
E) A and B only.

Question 14

These are codes of conduct stated by an employer.

A) Personal ethics
B) Professional ethics
C) Moral
D) Professional conduct

Question 15

Employers state appropriate employee conduct in the workplace in the ________.

A) code of ethics
B) job description
C) employee handbook
D) job posting

Question 16

Which of the following statement is true?

A) The AMA Code of Medical Ethics lists the values that physicians commit themselves to as they practice medicine.
B) The AMA Code of Medical Ethics is a living document.
C) The AMA Code of Medical Ethics is available online.
D) All of the above are true.

Question 17

Our morals are shaped from

A) our parents/guardians.
B) our socialization.
C) our background.
D) All of the above

Question 18

Which word best describes rule of conduct?

A) Ethics
B) Morals
C) Personal ethics
D) Professional ethics

Question 19

Which ethical principle supports the provider telling a patient of the risks and benefits of different procedures?

A) Beneficence
B) Autonomy
C) Nonmaleficence
D) Justice

Question 20

With regard to medical ethics, which term means a moral obligation to treat patients fairly and give them what is due to them.

A) Reparation
B) Veracity
C) Justice
D) Beneficence

Question 21

Betsy was admitted to the hospital. During the admission process, she was asked if she had advance directives. She was also given a written document on patient rights and the healthcare agency's policies on advance directives. Which act requires these activities?

A) Patient Self-Determination Act
B) Uniform Determination of Death Act
C) Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
D) National Organ Transplant Act

Question 22

________ euthanasia means to withhold a life-saving treatment and let the person die.

A) Self-administered
B) Involuntary
C) Passive
D) Voluntary

Question 23

________ euthanasia means the patient does not consent to the action.

A) Self-administered
B) Involuntary
C) Passive
D) Voluntary

Question 24

Which statement is true?

A) We need to separate our personal ethics from our professional ethics.
B) Our personal morals can negatively impact our job.
C) Our personal morals impact our professional performance.
D) All of the above are true.

Question 25

This involves removing egg cells from a female's ovaries. The cells are fertilized with sperm cells outside of the body and the fertilized egg is then implanted in the uterus for pregnancy.

A) Partial surrogacy
B) Gestational surrogacy
C) In vitro fertilization
D) Intrauterine insemination

Question 26

A group of people from various disciplines that analyze ethical issues.

A) Legal team
B) Ethics committee
C) Bioethicists
D) Ethicists

Question 27

This allows a person to bring an unwanted infant to a state designated location and to give the child up anonymously.

A) Safe Haven Infant Protection Laws
B) HIPAA
C) Patient Self-Determination Act
D) Parens patriae doctrine

Question 28

This act initially made it easier to donate organs. The revised act provides uniformity in organ and tissue donations across the nation.

A) Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
B) National Organ Transplant Act
C) Patient Self-Determination Act
D) Uniform Determination of Death Act

Question 29

_____________ are written instructions about healthcare decision, should a person be unable to make them.

A) Medical durable power of attorney
B) Healthcare proxy
C) Advance directives
D) Living will

Question 30

This can be a part of the living will. It indicates the person does not want cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

A) DNR
B) Healthcare proxy
C) Medical durable power of attorney
D) CPR

Question 31

Mr. Smith lost his wife last week. He refuses to accept that she is gone. What stage of grief is he experiencing?

A) Acceptance
B) Bargaining
C) Anger
D) Denial
E) Depression

Question 32

This advance directive includes all healthcare decisions and names a healthcare proxy. It can also include healthcare wishes.

A) Do not resuscitate
B) Healthcare proxy
C) Medical durable power of attorney
D) Living will

Question 33

This act established the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network to be run by contract by the secretary of Health and Human Service.

A) Patient Self-Determination Act
B) Uniform Determination of Death Act
C) Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
D) National Organ Transplant Act

Question 34

Sarah's mother is dying of cancer. Sarah tells you she is not interested in spending time with her friends. She cries all the time. What stage of grief is she experiencing?

A) Acceptance
B) Bargaining
C) Anger
D) Denial
E) Depression

Question 35

________ euthanasia means the patient consents to the action.

A) Assisted
B) Involuntary
C) Passive
D) Voluntary

Question 36

This advance directive means a competent adult can appoint a person to make healthcare decisions in the event he or she is unable to do so.

A) Do not resuscitate
B) Healthcare proxy
C) Medical durable power of attorney
D) Living will

Question 37

This provides instructions about life-sustaining medical treatment to be administered or withheld when the patient has a terminal condition.

A) Do not resuscitate
B) Healthcare proxy
C) Medical durable power of attorney
D) Living will

Question 38

A woman carries and gives birth for another couple. She is not related to the baby. The sperm and egg can come from the intended parents or can be donated.

A) Traditional surrogacy
B) Gestational surrogacy
C) In vitro fertilization
D) Intrauterine insemination

Question 39

This act clarifies who can make organ donation decisions for patients. It also protects the patient's decision on donation and establishes standard for donor registries.

A) Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
B) National Organ Transplant Act
C) Patient Self-Determination Act
D) Uniform Determination of Death Act

Question 40

Roseann Garcia was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She mentioned to you that she is trying to be a better person, so she can live long enough to see her daughter get married. What stage of grief is she experiencing?

A) Acceptance
B) Bargaining
C) Anger
D) Denial
E) Depression

Question 41

The purpose of the National Organ Transplant Act was to make it easier to donate organs.

Question 42

Ethics are rules of conduct.

Question 43

Morals are internal principles that distinguish between right and wrong.

Question 44

The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act established a national registry for organ matching.

Question 45

Pharmacogenomics is a branch of pharmacology that studies the genetic factors that influence a person's response to a medication.

Question 46

Where are adult stem cells derived from?

A) Human embryos
B) Brain
C) Bone marrow and blood
D) Umbilical cord blood
E) B, C, and D

Question 47

The Uniform Determination of Death Act serves as a guide for state lawmakers to create their own laws that provide a definition of death.

Question 48

Personal ethics are codes of conduct stated by an employer or professional association.

Question 49

The Patient Self-Determination Act requires healthcare institutions to provide patients with information about advance directives upon admission.

Question 50

Our personal morals do not impact our professional performance.

Question 51

This type of adoption occurs when the adoptive parents meet and may stay in contact with the birth parents.

A) Adopting through identification
B) Closed adoption
C) Relative adoptions
D) Open adoptions

Question 52

The genome is the entire genetic makeup of an organism.