Quiz 1
Illegal actions are?
Usually unethical.
What is the goal of utilitarianism?
The greatest good for the greatest number of people.
Leaving a patient after care has been initiated and before the patient has been transferred to someone with equal or greater medical training is known as what?
abandonment
A postmortem examination of organs and tissues to determine the cause of death is called what?
an autopsy
What is the name for stiffness that occurs in death?
Rigor mortis
The study of a branch of philosophy related to morals, moral principles, and moral judgments is called...
Ethics
What is reciprocity?
State to state acceptance of professional licensure or certification.
A patient rolling up a sleeve to have a blood sample taken is an example of
Implied consent.
A belief that one's cultural background is better than any other is called what?
ethnocentrism.
A person who is authorized to act an make choices on behalf of another is called what?
A proxy.
The three-step model developed by Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale is used to evaluate what?
An ethical dilemma
What is the name of the law that protects healthcare professionals from liability when they provide emergency assistance/services?
The Good Samaritan Law
Authority granted to a teacher or other adult by a child's parents to make treatment decisions in their absence is called what?
In loco parentis
How long should immunization records be kept?
Permanently.
What are the stages of grief?
Denial, anger, bargaining and guilt depression and acceptance.
What do we call specialists who give thought to ethical concerns as they pertain to medicine and medical research?
Bioethicists
What is an “unintentional tort?”
Negligence that occurs when the patient is injured as a result of the healthcare professional's not exercising the ordinary standard of care
In what document are patients able to request the type and amount of artificial nutritional and life-sustaining treatments that should or should not be used to prolong life?
Living Will
A written order requiring a person to appear in court, give testimony, and bring the records described is called what?
subpoena duces tecum
The complete set of genes within the 23 pairs of human chromosomes re known as what?
the human genome.
Respondeat Superior is Latin for what?
Let the master answer.
What is the definition of confidentiality?
The ability to safeguard another person's information.
What latin phrase means “ the thing has been decided?”
Res judicata
The group that monitors Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is called what?
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Federal law that forbids the sale of organs in interstate commerce is called what?
National Organ Transplant Law of 1984