ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
This ethical principle means doing good and acting in the patient's best interest.
What is beneficence?
These cells are capable of developing into different types of specialized cells and are studied for potential medical treatments.
What are stem cells
This occurs when a healthcare professional fails to provide the level of care that a reasonably careful professional would provide.
What is negligence?
This federal law protects the privacy and security of patients' protected health information.
What is HIPAA?
This document allows a person to state their wishes about certain future medical treatments if they become unable to communicate.
What is a living will?
This principle means avoiding actions that could harm a patient.
What is non-maleficence?
These machines can assist healthcare professionals with tasks such as surgery, rehabilitation, or patient care.
What are medical robots/robotics?
This refers to professional negligence by a healthcare provider that causes harm to a patient.
What is malpractice?
A patient has the right to receive information about their healthcare and participate in decisions about their care. What patient right is demonstrated?
What is autonomy?
This document or legal designation allows a person to name someone to make healthcare decisions for them if they cannot make those decisions themselves.
What is a healthcare proxy/durable power of attorney for healthcare?
A Medical Assistant treats every patient fairly regardless of background, financial status, or personal characteristics. Which ethical principle is demonstrated?
What is justice?
Treatments that use or stimulate the immune system to fight disease can raise questions about risks, benefits, access, and informed consent. What type of therapy is this?
What is immunologic therapy?
This term refers to legal responsibility for an action or failure to act that results in harm.
What is liability?
An MA discusses a patient's diagnosis loudly in a crowded hallway. What legal/ethical concern does this create?
What is a HIPAA/privacy violation?
This type of order addresses whether CPR should be performed if a patient's heart stops or the patient stops breathing.
What is a DNR order?
A competent patient refuses a recommended procedure after receiving information about it. Respecting the patient's decision demonstrates this principle
What is autonomy?
A hospital introduces an expensive new robotic technology that improves treatment but is available only to patients who can afford it. Which ethical principle is most directly raised?
What is justice?
An MA accidentally leaves a patient's medical information visible on a public computer where unauthorized people can see it. What law ha been violated?
What is HIPAA?
A patient asks to see their medical information. Which patient right is involved?
What is autonomy?
This type of medical order can translate a patient's treatment preferences into actionable medical orders, depending on state law and program terminology.
What is MOLST?
A Medical Assistant discovers that a patient is confused about a procedure. Instead of proceeding, the MA pauses and makes sure the patient understands before continuing. Which ethical principles are most directly involved?
What are autonomy and beneficence?
Before a patient agrees to an experimental technology-based treatment, healthcare professionals should explain its potential benefits, risks, alternatives, and uncertainties. What ethical/legal concept is involved?
What is informed consent?
A Medical Assistant performs a task outside the MA's legal scope of practice and the patient is not injured. What two major concerns could arise?
What are negligence and liability?
A patient has the right to receive care without discrimination, have privacy respected, receive understandable information, and participate in healthcare decisions. What broad document or standard describes these types of protections?
What is the Patient Bill of Rights?
Which is the best distinction: a living will primarily communicates treatment wishes, while a healthcare power of attorney primarily does what?
What is designate someone to make healthcare decisions when the patient cannot?