LSUS MHA Informatics- Exam 7

Which principle of ethics has a nursing educator violated in failing to correctly teach his/her students how to calculate medication dosages?

Nonmaleficence

______________ asserts an obligation not to inflict harm intentionally and forms a framework for the standard of care

Nonmaleficence

A healthcare worker has violated a patient's confidential and private information. What governmental agency will be called to investigate?

Office of Civil Rights (OCR)

Which theoretical framework emerged as a foundation for ethical decision making?

Principalism

New technologies in digital communications, electronic health records, and telehealth raise issues related to

Privacy and confidentiality

The fundamental nature of bioethics relates to

Needs of humans

Which social conventions about right and wrong human conduct are so widely shared that they form a stable general agreement?

Morals

Ethics is best described as

A goal-oriented approach to answering questions that potentially have multiple acceptable answers

Developing a national HIT infrastructure is an enormous and extremely complex undertaking that requires

All answers are correct

Healthcare professionals need to be familiar with the

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In ethics theory, autonomy means

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The intent of HIPAA was to

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When healthcare agencies provide access to health information on websites, they

Must adhere to responsible information standards

What helps to ethically delineate healthcare practice from healthcare information obtained from the Internet?

Direct provider patient communication

Linking health plans, providers and the government to allow for the meaningful use of healthcare information is called

Enterprise integration

A process of various ways of understanding and examining the moral life is called

Ethics

(T/F) Compliance with the Privacy and Security Rules is only mandatory for some entities

False

(T/F) HIPAA has improved the privacy and security of patient health information by applying the requirements of the HITECH act to the business associates of covered entities and by enhancing the breach notification requirements of the HITECH act.

False

(T/F) Principles of nonmaleficence are related to direct contacts with patients and do not apply to information published on health websites

False

Although theoretical definitions of ethics vary, what identifies a common characteristic of ethics?

Goal oriented

Fair, equitable, and appropriate treatment in light of what is due or owed to a person is known as

Justice

The main goal of any ethical decision is to

Reach a rational justifiable decision

Which of the following is not true about social media?

Social media posts are easily deleted by the person who initiated the post

An ethics approach applied to relatively homogenous societies, where beliefs are similar and most societal members shared common values, is known as

The Hippocratic tradition

In ethics theory, nonmaleficence means

The obligation not to inflict harm intentionally

(T/F) A core difficulty with social media networks is that networks overlap so that the unintended audience is almost always greater than the intended one

True

(T/F) A security breach is considered discovered as soon as an employee other than the individual who committed the breach knows or should have known of the breach, such as unauthorized access or even an unsuccessful attempt to access information

True

(T/F) Ethical dilemmas occur when issues raise questions that cannot be answered with a simple, clearly defined rule, fact, or authoritative view

True

(T/F) It is essential that the process used for making ethical decisions be systematic and flexible

True

(T/F) Morals are widely shared social conventions about right and wrong human conduct

True

(T/F) Social media is an acceptable form of communication but has the potential for ethical and legal complications

True

(T/F) The HITECH Act was enacted in 2009 to help stimulate both health care and financial recovery in the United States

True

The presence of a moral dilemma creates

Uncertainty

Which situation presents a bioethical dilemma?

Use of stem cell technology in research

Two ethics approaches that emphasize considering human needs and the responsibility to meet needs are

Virtue and care ethics