Radiation Therapy Chapter 2 Questions with
Accurate Answers Graded A+ (2024/2025)
1. What is the study of ethical issues in medicine?
a. Biometrics
b. Bioethics
c. Macro ethics
d. Micro ethics - ✔️✔️B
Bioethics is defined as the application of ethics to medicine, nursing, and health care.
Biometrics is a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations
by means of statistical analysis. Micro ethics consider individuals and internal relations
of the specific situations, whereas macro ethics applies to the collective social
responsibility and to societal decisions.
p. 25
2. Which of the following is not a sanctionable offence by the American Registry of
Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)?
a. Failure to participate in professional activities, share knowledge with colleagues, and
investigate new aspects of professional practice
b. Impersonation of a candidate for the examination
c. Failure to perform radiation therapy procedures with reasonable skill and safety
d. Knowingly assisting, aiding, or allowing a person without a current certificate of
registration with the ARRT to engage in the practice of radiologic technology, in a
jurisdiction that requires such registration - ✔️✔️A
Although participation in professional activities, sharing knowledge, and researching
new aspects of professional practice result in professional growth and other benefits,
failure to be involved in any of these activities is not a sanctionable offense by the
ARRT.
pp. 23-24
3. Which of the following is a theory of ethics developed by Immanuel Kant?
a. Virtue ethics
b. Communitarianism
c. Contextual ethics
d. Deontology - ✔️✔️D
In its purest form, deontology was developed by Immanuel Kant.
p. 26
4. Who is most closely associated with the stages of grief?
a. Nel Noddings
, b. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
c. John Mill
d. Immanuel Kant - ✔️✔️B
In 1969, in her book titled On Death and Dying, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described
several stages a patient passes through while dealing with grief.
p. 31
5. Which group is responsible for producing the rules of ethics for radiation therapists?
a. American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)
b. American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT)
c. American Medical Association (AMA)
d. American Hospital Association (AHA) - ✔️✔️A
The rules of ethics are part of the ARRT's standards of ethics document. The ASRT has
a code of ethics for radiation therapists but no rules of ethics. The AMA and AHA do not
have any documents specific to radiation therapists.
p. 21
6. Utilitarianism is an example of which broad group of ethical theories?
a. Teleology
b. Deontology
c. Virtue ethics - ✔️✔️A
Utilitarianism is one of the two major divisions of teleology (with egoism).
pp. 26-27
7. Jeremy Bentham and John Mill are most closely associated with which ethical
theory?
a. Communitarianism
b. Egoism
c. Natural law ethics
d. Utilitarianism - ✔️✔️D
Bentham and Mill are typically held to be the founders of utilitarianism as an ethical
theory.
pp. 26-27
8. What occurs when the obvious solution to a problem is prohibited by institutional
constraints?
a. Ethical dilemma
b. Ethical dilemma of justice
c. Ethical distress
d. Locus of authority - ✔️✔️C
Ethical distress occurs when a problem has an obvious solution, but institutional
constraints prohibit the application of the solution.
Accurate Answers Graded A+ (2024/2025)
1. What is the study of ethical issues in medicine?
a. Biometrics
b. Bioethics
c. Macro ethics
d. Micro ethics - ✔️✔️B
Bioethics is defined as the application of ethics to medicine, nursing, and health care.
Biometrics is a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations
by means of statistical analysis. Micro ethics consider individuals and internal relations
of the specific situations, whereas macro ethics applies to the collective social
responsibility and to societal decisions.
p. 25
2. Which of the following is not a sanctionable offence by the American Registry of
Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)?
a. Failure to participate in professional activities, share knowledge with colleagues, and
investigate new aspects of professional practice
b. Impersonation of a candidate for the examination
c. Failure to perform radiation therapy procedures with reasonable skill and safety
d. Knowingly assisting, aiding, or allowing a person without a current certificate of
registration with the ARRT to engage in the practice of radiologic technology, in a
jurisdiction that requires such registration - ✔️✔️A
Although participation in professional activities, sharing knowledge, and researching
new aspects of professional practice result in professional growth and other benefits,
failure to be involved in any of these activities is not a sanctionable offense by the
ARRT.
pp. 23-24
3. Which of the following is a theory of ethics developed by Immanuel Kant?
a. Virtue ethics
b. Communitarianism
c. Contextual ethics
d. Deontology - ✔️✔️D
In its purest form, deontology was developed by Immanuel Kant.
p. 26
4. Who is most closely associated with the stages of grief?
a. Nel Noddings
, b. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
c. John Mill
d. Immanuel Kant - ✔️✔️B
In 1969, in her book titled On Death and Dying, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described
several stages a patient passes through while dealing with grief.
p. 31
5. Which group is responsible for producing the rules of ethics for radiation therapists?
a. American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT)
b. American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT)
c. American Medical Association (AMA)
d. American Hospital Association (AHA) - ✔️✔️A
The rules of ethics are part of the ARRT's standards of ethics document. The ASRT has
a code of ethics for radiation therapists but no rules of ethics. The AMA and AHA do not
have any documents specific to radiation therapists.
p. 21
6. Utilitarianism is an example of which broad group of ethical theories?
a. Teleology
b. Deontology
c. Virtue ethics - ✔️✔️A
Utilitarianism is one of the two major divisions of teleology (with egoism).
pp. 26-27
7. Jeremy Bentham and John Mill are most closely associated with which ethical
theory?
a. Communitarianism
b. Egoism
c. Natural law ethics
d. Utilitarianism - ✔️✔️D
Bentham and Mill are typically held to be the founders of utilitarianism as an ethical
theory.
pp. 26-27
8. What occurs when the obvious solution to a problem is prohibited by institutional
constraints?
a. Ethical dilemma
b. Ethical dilemma of justice
c. Ethical distress
d. Locus of authority - ✔️✔️C
Ethical distress occurs when a problem has an obvious solution, but institutional
constraints prohibit the application of the solution.
