The specific domain of ethics that is focused on moral issues in the field of health care, such as who decides when someone dies.
What is bioethics?
100
People who treat others disrespectfully due to their age display this form of stereotyping.
What is ageism?
100
A hallmark of adolescent behavior, such as reckless driving.
What is risk-taking?
100
Abortion in the United States is legal today because of this legal precedent.
What is Roe vs. Wade.
100
The law defining death as an irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or irreversible cessation of all functions of the brain
What is the Dead Donor Rule?
200
Infanticide and genital mutilation are examples of this principal of ethics.
What is ethical relativism?
200
Older persons focus on these concepts to help alleviate suffering and promote well-being in their lives.
What is finding meaning and significance?
200
Prevention programs for adolescents focus on these two ethical principles, commonly used in health care.
What are beneficence and non-maleficence?
200
The name of the ethical dilemma which is at the heart of the abortion debate.
What is the Maternal-Fetal conflict?
200
The term for donors who are maintained on mechanical ventilation until their organs are harvested.
What are Controlled Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donors
300
The concept of the nurse-patient relationship where patients often must trust the nurse to care for them before they can show evidence that the trust is warranted.
What is unavoidable trust?
300
The ability to come to what most adults would consider to be reasonable conclusions or resolutions.
What is decisional capacity?
300
Children under the age of 18 are permitted to receive health care related to family planning and mental health treatment, without the consent of a parent or guardian under this law.
What is minor's consent law?
300
This is the key ethical principle involved in the two opposing arguments of elective abortions.
What is the right to life of the fetus as a separate entity from the mother?
300
The term used for the surgical removal of organs that will be used for transplantation.
What is organ harvesting?
400
The principle that occurs for health care providers when personal morals and values conflict with the most ethical solution to a dilemma.
What is moral suffering?
400
DAILY DOUBLE:
The image illustrates what aspect of ethics in the care of the elderly.
What is elder abuse?
400
It is the responsibility of health care providers to inform patients of this exception to patient confidentiality before an interview with the child or caretakers.
What is suspected child abuse?
400
Maternal substance abuse has been shown to be detrimental to the newborn, however, pregnant and lactating women do not have to undergo drug testing due to this patient right.
What is a patient's right to privacy?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: In the following video clip from Grey's Anatomy, what organ donor law may be compromised in the information that Dr. Grey relays to her patient?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF1CmtKyHNw
What is the Death and Dead Organ Rule
500
It is the job of this group of professionals to enhance the ethical reputation of the hospital.
What is the hospital ethics committee?
500
Elders and health care providers often have different value judgements when it comes to determining this concept, which is a guiding factor in continuing care of the elderly.
What is quality of life?
500
As a result of the deaths of handicapped newborns caused by the deliberate withholding of treatment by parental consent, these laws were passed; also known as the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984.
What are the Baby Doe Rules?
500
This federal law prohibits physicians from performing partial birth abortions.
What is the Federal Abortion Ban of 2003
500
Kidney transplants are often possible through this process; commonly from family members.