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30 Cards in this Set
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The approach to ethics taken by the authors of our texts argues that ________ is the central value.
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the individual person
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According to our authors, much of reality is socially constructed; hence to remove some of the ambiguities in moral situations, society relies on _______.
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laws
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A legal institution (U.S. gov) guarantees both the legal and moral rights of its citizens. T/F
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False
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The public good exists for hte good of the individual persons. T/F
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True
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Hippocratic Oath
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to prolong life AND to alleviate pain
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The primary purpose of medicine is the care of the patients. T/F
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True
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This model of nursing sees the nurse's primary obligation as institutional coordination iwth loyalty as the prime virtue.
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Bureaucratic
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This model of nursing sees the nurse's primary obligation as being a "voice" for the patient's concerns to the rest of the health care team.
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Patients Advocate
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In the ________ model of medicine, a physician takes on an expertise about life in general, and assumes a moral dominance over the patient.
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Priestly
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The ________ model of medicine speaks about the provider-patient relationship as a business relationship where what will happen is negotiated between provider and patient.
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Contractual
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"Autonomy" is a word that etymologically means-
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Self Law
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The ability to make choices based on an understanding of the relevant consequences of that choice on oneself and others is called-
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Competence
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All physician-patient encoutners must begin with the presumption that the patient is incompetent. T/F
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False
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A physician withholds information from the patinet when she believes that the disclosure will have an adverse effect on the patient's condition or health.
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Therapeutic privilege
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With respect to health care decision making, children are considered to be-
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incompetent
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Substitute decision makes for the incompetent persons are called-
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surrogates
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The notion of beneficence means to "avoid evil" while the notion of nonmaleficence means to "do good" T/F
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False
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According to the reformulated principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence, it is always right to do good and avoid evil. T/F
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False
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The ________ principle of benevolence states; "take care of your health as long as, all things considered, this does not produce more harm than good."
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Patient's
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Granted informed consent, the physician should do what is medically indicated such that, from a medical point of view, more good than evil will result. This states the ________principle.
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Medical indications
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When the wishes of a once-competent person are known, then a surrogate suses the ______principle to make a decision on behalf of the patient.
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Substitute judgement
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Medical staff overmedicating (sedating) patients for the conviencence of the staff is called-
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"snowing"
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In attempting to define disease adn health, while disease is typicaly seen as a deficit, health is typically seen as a lack of any deficit. T/F
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True
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Concerning the ethics of distribution, which of the following must be considered?
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Need AND Contribution to society
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A good (optimum) helath care system should be able to respond to _________ requests of an individual for health care.
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The reasonable
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Not telling the truth in those circumstances in which the other does not have a reasonable expectation of the truth is called a-
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Falsehood
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Volunteering information announces an intention to communicate and so creates a reasonable expectation of the truth. T/F
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True
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Knowledge that a person has a right or obligation to conceal because harm will follow if the particular knowledge is revealed-
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Secret
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The sorting or prioritizing of health care needs, especially in emergency situations-
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Triage
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In the medical field, the principle of confidentiality operates on a _________ need to know basis.
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Health care
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