Deck 10: Ethics in Health Leadership

Question 1

There are at least seven actions a health leader can take to incorporate an ethical framework and its application in a health organization. List three of those actions.
a. _________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________

Answer 1

No Answer.

Question 2

Define "value," "beneficence," and "justice" in the context of ethics.
a. Value: ____________________________________________
b. Beneficence: _______________________________________
c. Justice: ___________________________________________

Answer 2

No Answer.

Question 3

What are three of the seven major pieces of statutory legislation with which a health organization must stay in compliance?
a. _________________________________________________
b. _________________________________________________
c. _________________________________________________

Answer 3

No Answer.

Question 4

Why are utilitarianism and deontology the most widely used distributive justice theories in health organizations? Is this always true? Is it true in hospital organizations? Is it true in health department Immunization Programs?

Question 5

How would you apply an ethical framework to health leader decision making in business decisions and clinical decisions? Are they different?

Question 6

Strict equality in resource distribution is a tenet of ___________________.

A) egalitarianism
B) pluralism
C) libertarianism
D) utilitarianism
E) deontology

Question 7

The ethics committee has three main purposes: education, ______________, and policy review.

A) consultation
B) legal counsel
C) supervision
D) compliance
E) None of these is correct.

Question 8

The requirement for the health organization to do no harm is ________________.

A) beneficence
B) justice
C) autonomy
D) nonmaleficence
E) None of these is correct.

Question 9

The "greatest good for the greatest number" is a tenet of:

A) egalitarianism.
B) pluralism.
C) libertarianism.
D) utilitarianism.
E) deontology.

Question 10

_____________ are applied practices of the ethical framework.

A) Values
B) Morals
C) Principles
D) Both values and morals
E) None of these is correct.

Question 11

The patient's right to self governance and medical decision making is:

A) beneficence.
B) justice.
C) autonomy.
D) non-maleficence.
E) None of these is correct.

Question 12

The behavior of senior leadership is not as important as the behavior of midlevel managers, because most employees will not interact with senior leaders.

Question 13

Ethics are not culturally dependent.

Question 14

Values are applied practices derived from an ethical framework that is based on values and resource allocation beliefs.

Question 15

Health leaders face ethical dilemmas in the daily work of delivering health services and products within the health organization.

Question 16

In the field of health leadership, ethical dilemmas occur at three levels: micro, macro, and meso.

Question 17

In the field of healthcare ethics, autonomy refers to the patient's right to self-governance and medical decision making.

Question 18

Egalitarianism is a set of closely related theories that, without exemption, advocate the thesis that all members of a society should have an exactly equal amount of resources.

Question 19

Ethics is defined as a moral philosophy between concepts of right and wrong behaviors linked to resource allocation.

Question 20

Ethics links back to the distributive justice theories, cultural values and beliefs, and how a culture selects and applies a model of resource allocation based on societal norms and mores.

Question 21

Morality is the level of compliance to an ethical framework.

Question 22

Health leaders may often find themselves torn between owing allegiance to the financial stability of the organization and the charitable nature of the health profession.

Question 23

The meso level involves individual issues, such as relationships between individuals and leaders.

Question 24

In the field of healthcare ethics, nonmaleficence refers to the requirement of the health organization to do "good."

Question 25

Distributive justice suggests that the market or market forces should determine the distribution of resources in a society.