Health ethics first test

Ethical issues may be different each time a patient visits his or her health care practitioner. Which of the following is the best example of an ethical issue that may be encountered in the health care environment?

A health care practitioner refuses to treat a patient who has HIV/AIDS

A nurse practitioner identifies a problem in the workplace and attempts to clarify the problem. This is the first step of the problem solving process using __________.

Critical thinking

A daughter insists on keeping her mother on life-support following a brain hemorrhage that left her in an irreversible coma. The mother made an advance directive requesting a DNR in this type of situation. What would be the best action of the mother's care providers?

Enlist the help of the hospital ethics committee to resolve the situation

Health care professionals have principles and standards that govern behavior that are termed

Ethics

A physician is treating a hospitalized, terminally ill child and believes further treatment would be futile and would significantly prolong the child's suffering. To help with their difficult decision, the child's parents and/ or the child's physician may request a consultation with the hospital's ______________.

Ethics committee

A physician is implementing a decision regarding hospital policy after using the critical thinking process. Which of the following questions would best help the physician decide if the decision was ethical?

Has the decision followed relevant laws and company policy?

We live in a society where patients, relatives, and others are inclined to sue health care practitioners, health care facilities, manufactures of medical equipment and products, and others when medical outcomes are not acceptable. The term for this inclination is

Litigious

Today's health care consumers (patients) are likely to consider themselves __________ their health care practitioners in the healing process, and they are likely to question fees and treatment modes.

Partners with

Enforcements of laws is made possible by ________________ for disobedience, which are decided by a court or are mandatory as written into the law.

Penalties

The office policy manual describes a code of correct behavior in the office, also known as

Protocol

From a legal standpoint, which of the following is the most important aspect of a court case?

The representation of good law

Health care professionals follow a formalized code governing their practice. What is the purpose of these codes?

To increase the competence and standards of care within the profession

Health care equipment and product dealers and manufacturers can be held indirectly responsible for defective medical devices and products through charges of breach of

Warranty