Healthcare Values and Ethics (C426) ACTUAL UPDATED Questions
and CORRECT Answers
1. Normative Ethics Attempt to determine what moral standards should be followed so that human
behavior and conduct may be morally right.
2. Consequential Theory of ethics emphasizes that the morally right action is whatever action leads
Ethics to the maximum balance of good over evil.
- What will be the effects of each course of action?
- Will they be positive or negative?
- Who will benefit?
- What will do the least harm?
3. Utilitarian Ethics The concept that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its contribu-
tion to overall usefulness.
4. Deontological Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Ethics
Doing the right thing is good, but it might not always lead to or increase the good
and right thing sought after.
5. Nonconsequen- An ethical theory that denies the consequences of an action or rule are the only
tial Ethics criteria for determining the morality of an action or rule.
The rightness or wrongness of an action is based on properties intrinsic to the
action, not on its consequences.
6. Ethical Relativism Morality is relative to the norms of one's culture in which one lives.
Actions can be considered right or wrong depending on the accepted norms of the
society in which they are practiced
7. 4 principles of 1. Beneficence
ethics 2. Nonmaleficence
3. Autonomy
,4. Justice
, 8. Beneficence Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action.
9. Nonmaleficence Duty to do no harm
10. Autonomy The right of a person to make one's own decision.
11. Justice obligation to be fair in the distribution of benefits and risks
12. Ethics Committee A multidisciplinary group of people consisting of ethicists, educators, clinicians,
Composition legal advisers, and political leaders, clergy, QI managers, and corporate leaders.
13. Ethics Committee Development of policy and procedure guidelines to resolve ethical dilemmas;
Function staff and community education; conflict resolution; case reviews, support, and
consultation; and political advocacy.
14. Laws Impact On
Healthcare
15. Common Law The body of principles that has evolved and expanded from judicial decisions that
arise during the trial of court cases.
"Reason and justice for all"
16. Statutory Law Written law emanating from federal and state legislative bodies.
17. Administrative The extensive body of public law issued by administrative agencies to direct the
Law enacted laws of the federal and state governments.
The branch of law that controls the administrative operations of governments.
18. Elements of Neg- 1. Duty to care
ligence 2. Breach of duty
3. Injury/Actual Damages
4. Causation/Proximate Cause
and CORRECT Answers
1. Normative Ethics Attempt to determine what moral standards should be followed so that human
behavior and conduct may be morally right.
2. Consequential Theory of ethics emphasizes that the morally right action is whatever action leads
Ethics to the maximum balance of good over evil.
- What will be the effects of each course of action?
- Will they be positive or negative?
- Who will benefit?
- What will do the least harm?
3. Utilitarian Ethics The concept that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by its contribu-
tion to overall usefulness.
4. Deontological Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Ethics
Doing the right thing is good, but it might not always lead to or increase the good
and right thing sought after.
5. Nonconsequen- An ethical theory that denies the consequences of an action or rule are the only
tial Ethics criteria for determining the morality of an action or rule.
The rightness or wrongness of an action is based on properties intrinsic to the
action, not on its consequences.
6. Ethical Relativism Morality is relative to the norms of one's culture in which one lives.
Actions can be considered right or wrong depending on the accepted norms of the
society in which they are practiced
7. 4 principles of 1. Beneficence
ethics 2. Nonmaleficence
3. Autonomy
,4. Justice
, 8. Beneficence Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action.
9. Nonmaleficence Duty to do no harm
10. Autonomy The right of a person to make one's own decision.
11. Justice obligation to be fair in the distribution of benefits and risks
12. Ethics Committee A multidisciplinary group of people consisting of ethicists, educators, clinicians,
Composition legal advisers, and political leaders, clergy, QI managers, and corporate leaders.
13. Ethics Committee Development of policy and procedure guidelines to resolve ethical dilemmas;
Function staff and community education; conflict resolution; case reviews, support, and
consultation; and political advocacy.
14. Laws Impact On
Healthcare
15. Common Law The body of principles that has evolved and expanded from judicial decisions that
arise during the trial of court cases.
"Reason and justice for all"
16. Statutory Law Written law emanating from federal and state legislative bodies.
17. Administrative The extensive body of public law issued by administrative agencies to direct the
Law enacted laws of the federal and state governments.
The branch of law that controls the administrative operations of governments.
18. Elements of Neg- 1. Duty to care
ligence 2. Breach of duty
3. Injury/Actual Damages
4. Causation/Proximate Cause
