Deck 4: Legal and Ethical Principles

Question 1

The health care worker's code of ethics includes all of the following except:

A) Promoting optimal levels of wellness
B) Promoting specific choices to aid recovery
C) Participating in professional activities
D) Knowing the limits of practice for his or her competency
E) Respecting the religious beliefs of all patients

Answer 1

Promoting specific choices to aid recovery

Question 2

Morals are based on:

A) Experience, religion, and laws
B) Religion, philosophy, and experience
C) Laws, philosophy, and experience
D) Laws, philosophy, and policies
E) Policies, religion, and philosophy

Answer 2

Religion, philosophy, and experience

Question 3

Workers in every health occupation are ____________________ for their behavior and the care given.

Answer 3

Liable

Question 4

The most common incidences of liability for the health care worker result from:

A) Libel
B) Charting
C) Advance directives
D) b and c
E) a and b

Question 5

Types of advance directives include:

A) DNR
B) Living will
C) Power of attorney
D) b and c
E) a, b, and c

Question 6

Reporting and recording observations and ____________________ are the methods by which communication about the patient's status takes place.

Question 7

Advance directives and ____________________ are legal documents that allow patients to express their wishes about their health care and treatment.

Question 8

____________________ must be precise, clear, and concise to record the activities of care.

Question 9

Jurisprudence involves:

A) Awareness of the laws that influence the industry
B) Ethical behavior
C) Moral behavior
D) b and c
E) a and b

Question 10

The main technique used by health care workers to communicate about the patient's care is:

A) Advance directives
B) Internal review board
C) Internet
D) Charting
E) Consent

Question 11

Failure to execute the care that a reasonable person exercises is known as:

A) Malpractice
B) Slander
C) Negligence
D) Jurisprudence
E) Libel

Question 12

Failure of professional skill or learning that results in injury, loss, or damage is called:

A) Malpractice
B) Unethical
C) Negligent
D) Slander
E) Libel

Question 13

Hospitals and other health care facilities may have a(n) ______________________________ that meets to oversee the agency's guidelines for ethical conduct.

Question 14

Ethical standards are based on:

A) Morals and expectations
B) Statutes and laws
C) Oaths
D) Pledges
E) a, c, and d

Question 15

It is considered ____________________ to perform skills that are beyond the level of a health care worker's education and training.

Question 16

Limits of practice are established by:

A) The federal government
B) Health care associations
C) The state
D) The health care facility

Question 17

A durable _________________________ for health care allows another person or agent to make decisions if the person is unable to make them.

Question 18

An action that does not represent ideal behavior but may not be illegal is called:

A) Libel
B) Unethical
C) Slander
D) Malpractice
E) Negligent

Question 19

Health care has become a(n) ____________________ that involves many complex professions and technologies.

Question 20

Use of the ____________________ to access health care information and products has introduced a new set of issues and concerns.

Question 21

Give at least three examples of a patient's rights based on every citizen's rights.

Question 22

Explain the purpose of a health care facility's internal review board.

Question 23

Match the numbered word below with the best definition.
a.The science or philosophy of law
b.Failure of professional skill or learning that results in injury, loss, or damage
c.Legally responsible
d.Relating to principles of right and wrong
e.Failure to execute the care that a reasonable person exercises
f.Private or secret
g.Verbally communicating something untruthful and harmful about another person
h.Deriving authority from or founded on law
i.Communicating something untruthful and harmful about another person in writing
j.Dealing with what is good or bad; determining moral duty and obligation
1.Confidential
2.Ethics
3.Jurisprudence
4.Legal
5.Liable
6.Libel
7.Malpractice
8.Moral
9.Negligence
10.Slander

Question 24

Explain the concept of reasonable care as it applies to the health care worker.

Question 25

What is the purpose of charting?

Question 26

Delineate the pros and cons of the Internet and its relationship to health care.

Question 27

What is the scope of responsibilities of a health care worker who treats a patient for injuries resulting from assault and battery?

Question 28

Explain duty of care as it applies to the health care worker.

Question 29

How might a health care worker's value system affect his or her job performance?

Question 30

Define ethical codes and list the professions that have developed a set of governing ethical codes.

Question 31

A ____________________ is written by a doctor to indicate that the patient is not to be resuscitated.

Question 32

The health care worker's code of ethics has many elements; explain these elements and their effects on patient care.

Question 33

Explain the five elements of advance care directives and the effects of each on the patient.

Question 34

Explain the two types of advance directives that take precedence when a patient loses the ability to make his or her own decisions.

Question 35

Differentiate the terms liable, malpractice, and negligence.

Question 36

Explain the reasoning behind the DNR order.How might the DNR order infringe upon the Hippocratic oath?

Question 37

Using the Internet, locate several articles about malpractice cases in health care.Summarize your findings and give your opinion on the outcome.

Question 38

Research the procedure a patient must follow to become an organ donor.What are the benefits and drawbacks of becoming an organ donor?

Question 39

What is the purpose of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?

Question 40

Patient confidentiality is both an ethical and a legal matter.What is the exception to respecting a patient's right to privacy?

Question 41

Paraphrase the Nightingale pledge, explaining the main purpose of the pledge.How might the Nightingale pledge affect the health care worker?