Ethics in Health Professionals Final Exam Prep

Practicing morality requires that healthcare administrators use leadership virtues. Which of the following theorists best supports this action?

Aristotle

Which of the following are true concerning managed care organizations?

Capitation is how providers are paid for their services.

If a physician is licensed to practice medicine in Ohio, he or she can also practice in Rhode Island on that license.

False

Prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, there were no lifetime limits on medical coverage.

False

Which of the following theorists would be most likely to object to physician incentive programs with respect to duty to the patient.

Kant

Which of the following theorists would be the most likely to object to physician incentive programs with respect to duty to the patient?

Kant

You decide to use part of your budget to run an immunization campaign for children under the age of two. Which theorist would support your decision as a form of distributive justice?

Mill

When you make decisions about purchasing the latest technology, _____ theory can provide support for making your cost/benefit analysis.

Mill's

Which of the following organizations has a duty to improve the quality of managed care?

NCQA

The most critical ethics issue for central storage of healthcare information is _____.

Protection of the confidentiality of patient records.

If you believe that justice means fair access to health care services, you support _____ theory of justice.

Rawls'

The Joint Commission (TJC) sets standards for practice for all of its accredited healthcare facilities. Which of the following is true of this organization?

TJC has patient rights standards that include informed consent and pain management

Ethics-based administrators consider the budget to be _____.

a statement of the organization's ethics

When you are practicing medicine in a rural clinic, you may still be using paper records instead of digital ones. What ethics principle would you use to justify your use of paper patient records?

autonomy

A market force that has a potential for causing concerns with providing the greatest good for the greatest number, is the _____.

baby boomers

Researchers in the field of healthcare predict that ACA 2010 is the first part of overall reform for healthcare. Healthcare administrators will face the ethical issues during this time of transition. Which of the following will be the most significant ethics issue for healthcare administrators?

balancing utilitarian theory was Kantian deontology

The earliest form of managed care had its foundation in the ethics principle of _____.

beneficence

The earliest form on managed care had its foundation in the ethics principle of _____.

beneficence

In an ethics-based organization, there is an emphasis on quality. How do patients determine if a healthcare organization is providing quality?

check websites before appt., talk with someone who was treated @ organization, see reception area & make judgement (all of the options)

If you code visits by profit and not by diagnosis, you can engage in an unethical practice called _____.

coding creep

The best mechanism for verifying the practice of patient justice is _____.

conducting administrative rounds

Electronic medical records could be very advantageous for healthcare practice. However, patients may not always trust this form of record keeping because of their fear of potential loss of _____.

confidentiality

Which of the following is an ethics issue for the staffing function?

confidentiality & justice (all of the above)

Ethical issues for hospitals under ACA 2010 include:

controlling costs through reducing healthcare prices & greater scrutiny for hospital practices (all of the above)

When the patient wants to use holistic treatments and the physician says that this is stupid, you have a _____.

culture clash

Which of the following is an ethics issue for the planning function?

data integrity & presentation accuracy (all of the above)

Physicians may insist that they need to have the latest technology in order to meet their duty provide the best care for each patient. They are using _____ to justify their claim.

deontology

In order to maintain competency, ethics-based healthcare administrators should _____.

develop a personal mission statement, conduct an ethics self-assessment, & find an ethics mentor (do all of the above)

Balancing the distribution of benefits and burdens within a community is _____ justice.

distributive

With respect to quality assurance, ethics-based administrators often feel _____.

drowned in a sea of regulation

Which of the following is an ethics issue for patient satisfaction measurement?

engaging in data manipulation

When you want to assure staff competence before hiring, you would _____.

establish BFOQ's for each position

If a healthcare administrator talks about ethics, but does not use it, he/she is practicing _____.

ethical hypocrisy

Using a model for decision making in an ethics committee meeting enhances _____.

ethical reasoning

A limitation of ACA 2010 that relates to health care's Kantian duty is that _____.

everyone will not have the same insurance coverage.

Lawrence Kohlberg described how people developed their ethical reasoning. In health care, the minimal level of moral development that is expected is level _____.

four

For the patient, justice is _____.

getting what is fair or deserved

The demand for healthcare is influenced by _____.

healthcare reform, medical necessity, & professional judgement (all of the options)

When you are concerned about the autonomy issues for a new policy that you are developing; you have the policy reviewed by the _____.

hospital ethics committee

The essence of the patient experience in the Planetree model is _____.

human interaction

When hiring new staff members, healthcare administrators have the obligation to

inform candidates of the requirements of the hiring process

Which of the following is an ethics issue related the use of CAM?

informed consent

You are the director of the CAM clinic at a large healthcare system. One of your employees tells you that the massage therapist has been making sexual comments about her clients. The first thing you would do is _____.

investigate the claim

If you were working in a clinic run by Dr. Patch Adams, you would expect to see _____.

joy & humor

An example of administration evil that is common in health care is _____.

labeling

In an ethics-based healthcare system, the payer and the provider make decisions about what care is given based on _____.

medical necessity

Which of the following is an example of a conflict of interest for a healthcare administrator?

moonlighting

Healthcare administrators must be open to ethics from the every day. Which of the following is a source for ethics lessons?

movies, novels, & anecdotes (all of the above)

When you create a clinic or hospital to address the needs of a particular group of patients, you create a _____.

niché market

When healthcare administrators apply ethics, values, and duties to their management practice, they are engaging in _____.

personal mortality

When you strive to treat all patients with dignity and justice, you are practicing _____.

positive consistency

When you value your procedures more than you do your staff, it is easier to _____.

practice administrative evil

According to Parker Palmer, moral leaders _____.

produce good (light) and avoid harm (shadow)

Students learn to be healthcare administrators through _____.

professional socialization

_____ is the term used to indicate the amount of information needed to enable a person to make a decision about his or her treatment.

reasonable person standard

Under ACA 2010, hospitals face many changes that challenge ethics. One of these areas of changes is Hospital VBP. Which of the following are potential ethics issues for hospitals under this new system?

reduction in payments if identified standards are not met

The foundational ethical concept that guides non-profit healthcare organizations is _____.

social justice

Donabedian defined quality in three major components. When you consider the education of professionals, appropriate equipment, and adequate staffing, you are considering the _____ component of quality.

structure

Healthcare administrators can prevent moral derailment by _____.

taking the morality pulse of the organization & monitoring their own moral decisions (all of the above)

When people believe that good medicine means technology, it is evidence of _____.

technology diffusion

ACA 2010 also affects physicians. An ethical issue for this group is _____.

the loss of autonomy over their practice of medicine

According to Covey (2006), what is the core of interaction for both organizations and society?

trust

If you believe that quality assurance avoids the greatest harm to the greatest number of people, _____ supports your belief.

utilitarianism

When dealing with vendors, their confidence in your _____ is the basis for _____ in the business aspects of health care.

veracity, trust

An ethics criticism concerning that individual mandate of ACA 2010 is that it _____.

violates individual autonomy

You are a patient _____.

when a professional diagnoses you