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Edgans chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.What sanctions can apply when one breaks a law? | Fines, jail, license suspension |
| 2.What simple question does ethics attempt to answer? | How should we act |
| .What ethical issue has recently become a significant concern for respiratory therapists and all health care providers due to a congressional act? | Patients right to privacy |
| 4.In most professions, who provides the specific guidance in resolving ethical dilemmas? | Code of ethics |
| 5.The AARC Code of Ethics holds professionals to what principles? | Improving competence, following procedures of ethics, disease prevention, improve patient care, and respect patients right |
| 6.What are the primary guiding principles in contemporary ethical decision making? | Nonmaleficence, autonomy, justice and role fidelity |
| 7.Which ethical principle obliges a respiratory therapist to uphold a patient’s right to refuse a treatment? | Autonomy |
| 8.A health professional who withholds the truth from a patient, saying it is for his or her own good, is engaged in what practice? | Benevolent deception |
| 9.What ethical principle can be used to justify the pain that might occur in drawing blood from a patient for a diagnostic test? | Double effect |
| 10.The debate over prolongation of life versus relief of suffering in elderly patients mainly involves differing opinions regarding what ethical principle? | Beneficence |
| 11.What types of directives can patients use to help resolve ethical dilemmas involving their life-sustaining care? | Durable power of attorney and living will |
| 12.Under what conditions can the principle of confidentiality be breached? | When the welfare of the community or individual is at stake |
| 13.The moral basis for rationing health care services falls under what ethical principle? | Distributive justice |
| 14.What has played a minor role in increasing the cost of health care? | Compensatory justice |
| 15.When a respiratory therapist defers a patient’s questions about a condition to the attending physician, what ethical principle is being practiced? | Role fidelity |
| 16.A clinician who justifies support for withdrawing life support from a patient because “in the end, it would be best for all involved” is applying what ethical viewpoint? | Consequentialism |
| 17.A clinician who justifies not billing a poor patient for services rendered because “that’s what a professional should do” is applying what ethical viewpoint? | Virtue ethics |
| 18.Before making any ethical decision, one should take what actions? | Identify individual, ethical principles that apply, identify decision maker, consider alternatives |
| 19.What are the divisions of public law (the relationships of private parties and the government)? | Administrative and criminal |
| 20.What branch of law is concerned with the recognition and enforcement of the rights and duties of private individuals and organizations? | Civil |
| 21.What is the term for a civil wrong committed against an individual or property, for which a court provides a remedy in the form of damages? | Tort |
| 22.What tenets are necessary to validate a claim of professional negligence? | Practitioner owed a duty, breach of duty caused the damage, harm or damage came to the patient |
| 23.In a case of professional negligence, what is/are NOT required to support a claim of res Ipsa loquitur: | Evidence must show the defendant acted with maleficence |
| 24.A physician who participates in active euthanasia is committing what type of malpractice? | Criminal |
| 25.A nurse who practices below a reasonable standard of care is committing what type of malpractice? | Civil |
| 26.A respiratory therapist who engages in a questionable business practice is committing what type of malpractice? | Ethical |
| 27.What are NOT considered intentional torts? | Negligent practice |
| 28.When a practitioner performs a procedure that involves physical contact without the patient’s consent, can it result in what charge? | Battery |
| 29.What are legitimate defenses against an intentional tort? | Lack of intent to harm patient, consent given by patient |
| 30.A physician specifies an incorrect dose in a prescription for a bronchodilator drug to be given to an asthmatic patient. When the respiratory therapist gives the prescribed dose, the patient dies, against who could a suit of negligence be brought? | RT, attending physician, dispensing pharmacist |
| 31.HIPAA is primarily referred to as the Privacy Rule and is concerned with PHI. What do the letters PHI stand for? | Protected health information |
| 32.What legal doctrine holds superiors responsible for the actions of their workers? | Respondent superior |
| 33.What conditions are necessary to incur liability under the doctrine of respondent superior? | Injury must be a result of negligence; act must occur within subordinates' scope |
| 34.Which of the following is not a common element in a professional practice act? | Professional code of ethics |
| 35.If a respiratory therapist refers a Medicare patient to a particular home care company and receives a finder’s fee in return, this is an example of? | Medicare fraud |
| 36.How can ethical obligations be used in legal proceedings? | As a tool of cross examination |
| 37.In tort law, what is “proximate causation”? | Decide whether it is fair to impose damage on defendant |
| .What are the economic damages that can be imposed on a defendant during a negligence lawsuit? | Unemployment, loss of property use and loss of earnings |
| 39.What can be effective tools in preventing malpractice litigations? | Ris management practice, guest relations policy, continue education |
| 40.What is the role of the corporate compliance officer (CCO) in a health care setting? | Oversees hospital practices and makes sure they conform to the law |
| 41.What does The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) do for each individual health care worker? | Provides protection to hospital workers with or without union |
| 42.What does The False Claims act do for each individual health care worker? | Provides protection to whistleblowers |
| 43.What acts improved access to health care and increased reimbursement for patient care services? | Affordable care act |
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