Medical Law & Ethics Final Exam with
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the American Medical Association ✔️✔️Physicians are governed not only by state laws but
also by:
All of the above ✔️✔️If a healthcare professional oversteps his or her scope of practice, which
can occur?
The student moves a patient in a wheelchair at a high speed and does not use wheel brakes
during stops ✔️✔️Which of the following students might be guilty of ordinary negligence?
A nurse performs within the scope of her duties ✔️✔️Which situation does not illustrate
determination of the existence of a duty that has been breached?
Negligence ✔️✔️What is the term for failure to use or not use the same care as used by a
reasonably prudent person?
liability ✔️✔️An individual's responsibility for his or her conduct for failure to meet a standard
of care is called:
,liability ✔️✔️Which is an individual's responsibility for his or her conduct for a failure to meet
a standard of care?
Reasonably ✔️✔️Allied health professionals can avoid negligence by conducting themselves
in which way when providing patient services?
Financial ✔️✔️Which is a patient's compensation for injuries that her or she has sustained?
All of the above ✔️✔️Which is a way to resolve conflicts using alternative dispute resolution?
mediation ✔️✔️The process by which a neutral third party facilitates dispute resolution is
called:
Arbitration ✔️✔️If a physician and patient need a controlled, structured setting, they may wish
to try which of the following?
Statute of limitations ✔️✔️Which term is used to describe the amount of time a plaintiff has
after an injury to file a lawsuit?
Duty, dereliction of duty, direct cause, damages ✔️✔️What are the four elements needed in a
negligence case?
, compensatory ✔️✔️Damages for financial losses based on actual income and expenses are
called:
punitive ✔️✔️Awards that are intended to punish are considered:
res ipsa loquitur ✔️✔️"The thing speaks for itself: is called:
alternative dispute resolution ✔️✔️A defendant does not want to go through a trial, and wants
the issue at hand dealt with expediently. He may use:
Affirmative ✔️✔️This type of defense is a denial of negligence.
comparative negligence ✔️✔️When the defendant shows that the plaintiff's actions or inaction
was a contributing factor in the damages, this is considered:
Assumption of risk ✔️✔️In this type of defense, the medical record plays the largest part of
the defense.
respondeat superior ✔️✔️"Let the master answer" is:
work within their scope of practice ✔️✔️To help prevent malpractice, a healthcare provider
should:
Actual Answers
the American Medical Association ✔️✔️Physicians are governed not only by state laws but
also by:
All of the above ✔️✔️If a healthcare professional oversteps his or her scope of practice, which
can occur?
The student moves a patient in a wheelchair at a high speed and does not use wheel brakes
during stops ✔️✔️Which of the following students might be guilty of ordinary negligence?
A nurse performs within the scope of her duties ✔️✔️Which situation does not illustrate
determination of the existence of a duty that has been breached?
Negligence ✔️✔️What is the term for failure to use or not use the same care as used by a
reasonably prudent person?
liability ✔️✔️An individual's responsibility for his or her conduct for failure to meet a standard
of care is called:
,liability ✔️✔️Which is an individual's responsibility for his or her conduct for a failure to meet
a standard of care?
Reasonably ✔️✔️Allied health professionals can avoid negligence by conducting themselves
in which way when providing patient services?
Financial ✔️✔️Which is a patient's compensation for injuries that her or she has sustained?
All of the above ✔️✔️Which is a way to resolve conflicts using alternative dispute resolution?
mediation ✔️✔️The process by which a neutral third party facilitates dispute resolution is
called:
Arbitration ✔️✔️If a physician and patient need a controlled, structured setting, they may wish
to try which of the following?
Statute of limitations ✔️✔️Which term is used to describe the amount of time a plaintiff has
after an injury to file a lawsuit?
Duty, dereliction of duty, direct cause, damages ✔️✔️What are the four elements needed in a
negligence case?
, compensatory ✔️✔️Damages for financial losses based on actual income and expenses are
called:
punitive ✔️✔️Awards that are intended to punish are considered:
res ipsa loquitur ✔️✔️"The thing speaks for itself: is called:
alternative dispute resolution ✔️✔️A defendant does not want to go through a trial, and wants
the issue at hand dealt with expediently. He may use:
Affirmative ✔️✔️This type of defense is a denial of negligence.
comparative negligence ✔️✔️When the defendant shows that the plaintiff's actions or inaction
was a contributing factor in the damages, this is considered:
Assumption of risk ✔️✔️In this type of defense, the medical record plays the largest part of
the defense.
respondeat superior ✔️✔️"Let the master answer" is:
work within their scope of practice ✔️✔️To help prevent malpractice, a healthcare provider
should:
