Health Professions Ethics Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Health Professions Ethics explores the fundamental ethical principles and dilemmas encountered in various healthcare professions. The course examines topics such as patient autonomy, confidentiality, informed consent, justice, and professional boundaries through real-life case studies and theoretical frameworks. Students will develop skills in critical thinking, ethical decision-making, and effective communication as they analyze scenarios relevant to clinical practice, research, and the healthcare system at large. Emphasis is placed on fostering a strong moral foundation and sense of professional responsibility to guide ethical behavior and responses to challenges in diverse healthcare environments.
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Law and Ethics for Health Professions 7th Edition by Karen Judson BS
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Law and Ethics
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Q1) Another term for legal responsibility is:
A) liability
B) litigious
C) testimony
D) defense
E) precedent
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is considered a technical skill?
A) tact
B) problem solving
C) common sense
D) gathering information
E) computer literacy
Answer: E
Q3) Rules of etiquette applicable to one's place of employment are known as:
Answer: protocol, which is a set of rules that everyone must follow within in an organization.
Q4) A specialist who consults with physicians, researchers, and others to help them make difficult decisions is known as:
Answer: a medical ethicist or bioethicist.
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Chapter 2: Making Ethical Decisions
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Q1) An act performed by a health care practitioner to help a patient stay healthy or recover from illness is which principle of health care ethics?
Answer: Beneficence. Beneficence is defined as acts of charity and mercy, but it means more for health care workers. Beneficence is acts performed by a health care practitioner to help people stay healthy or recover from illness.
Q2) A nurse practitioner is also a manager in a small practice with three physicians. One of the medical assistants comes to her and says that another employee is falsifying her work hours. The nurse practitioner knows that the two employees don't get along. What would be the next step the nurse would take if following the problem-solving process?
A) Collect the facts.
B) List the options.
C) Evaluate the potential options.
D) Make a decision and act.
E) Ask the other employee why she is falsifying her work hours.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Working in Health Care
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Q1) Most medical training is provided in tertiary care settings. Which of the following is an example of a tertiary care setting?
A) physician's office
B) trauma center
C) mobile clinic serving migrant workers
D) community health care clinic
E) walk in clinic
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following is not sufficient grounds for revoking a medical license?
A) conviction of a felony
B) falsifying medical records
C) misdiagnosis
D) personal incapacity
E) unprofessional conduct
Answer: C
Q3) When two or more physicians decide to practice individually, what is this type of practice known as?
Answer: It is known as an associate practice.
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Chapter 4: Law the Courts and Contracts
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Q1) Which list describes the elements of a contract?
A) agreement, subject matter, legality, and contractual capacity
B) agreement, consideration, trade, and contractual capacity
C) agreement, accounting, legality, and subject matter
D) agreement, consideration, legal subject matter, and contractual capacity
E) agreement, precedent, legality, and contractual capacity
Q2) Laws enacted by state or federal legislatures are called:
A) case law
B) bills
C) amendments
D) statutes
E) common law
Q3) A nurse who steals drugs from a medication cart is committing an offense under what kind of law?
A) common law
B) criminal law
C) administrative law
D) civil law
E) substantive law
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Chapter 5: Professional Liability and Medical Malpractice
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Q1) Which of the following is not a violation of patient confidentiality?
A) While the patient is in the waiting room, a nurse tells a patient his diagnosis.
B) Medical assistants are discussing a patient by name outside the exam room.
C) A nurse leaves a detailed message about his/her diagnosis on the patient's voice mail.
D) A radiology technician discusses with the patient results of the x-rays.
E) An office clerk calls a patient by name at the check-out desk.
Q2) What is the difference between a subpoena and subpoena duces tecum?
A) There is no difference.
B) Subpoena duces tecum is just an old fashioned term for subpoena.
C) A subpoena duces tecum requires that documents and records be brought to court.
D) A subpoena requires that an individual appear in court.
E) A subpoena requires that an individual serve on the jury.
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Chapter 6: Defenses to Liability Suits
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Q1) Methods used to manage risk are considered a part of which of the following?
A) assumption of risk
B) telemedicine
C) quality assurance
D) comparative negligence
E) occurrence assessment
Q2) One of the most common occurrences for marking the beginning of the statutory period for medical malpractice includes:
A) the day a lawsuit was filed
B) the time a patient recovers from injury
C) the day the alleged negligent act was committed
D) the day the patient dies
E) the day the patient is at full medical recovery
Q3) Explain the process an office must use when a physician may be unavailable for an extended period of time or when the physician leaves the practice.
Q4) Explain several steps office staff could take to document missed appointments in an attempt to reduce the possibility of a malpractice lawsuit.
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Chapter 7: Medical Records and Informed Consent
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Q1) What is an addendum to a medical record?
Q2) A plastic surgeon routinely photographs patients to document care. Which of the following accurately describes information that should be included on the consent form for this type of photography?
A) The patient understands that ownership rights to the photos belong to the patient.
B) The patient understands that the photos will be kept for an undetermined time period.
C) The patient understands that he or she cannot view the photographs.
D) The patient understands that authorization must be given to release photos outside the facility.
E) The patient understands that he or she will be paid for use of the photos in marketing for the practice.
Q3) Describe the process to correct an error in a written medical record.
Q4) Describe the circumstances where the Good Samaritan principles are used as a defense in a medical negligence lawsuit.
Q5) Discuss the statute of limitations as it relates to the retention of medical records.
Q6) What are the elements of the doctrine of informed consent?
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Chapter 8: Privacy, Security, and Fraud
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Q1) Identify the four standards found in HIPAA.
Q2) Which HIPAA standard requires providers to protect electronically transmitted and otherwise stored personal health information?
A) Standard 1
B) Standard 2
C) Standard 3
D) Standard 4
E) Standard 5
Q3) Which of the following statements is true about the Patients' Bill of Rights?
A) The Patients' Bill of Rights is the fifteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
B) The Patients' Bill of Rights is part of HITECH.
C) No one universal government statute exists.
D) The American Hospital Association has a Patients' Bill of Rights that became federal law.
E) The Bipartisan Patient Protection Act of 2001 was passed as a Patients' Bill of Rights.
Q4) HIPAA allows a state preemption. What does that mean?
Q5) Describe the Patients' Bill of Rights as adopted by Congress.
Q6) What is the difference between the Federal Anti-Kickback Law and the Stark Law?
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Chapter 9: Physicians Public Duties and Responsibilities
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Q1) Define the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
Q2) Examples of public data collected by law from physicians include:
A) murders and child abuse incidents
B) felonies
C) incidents of allergic reaction to drugs
D) auto accidents where the physician was attending
E) births, deaths, rapes, and assaults
Q3) If a patient dies of natural causes while under his or her physician's care, who is responsible for completion of the medical portion of the death certificate?
A) morgue attendant
B) attending physician
C) medical examiner
D) any health care practitioner in attendance at the time of death
E) coroner
Q4) What is the difference between a coroner and a medical examiner?
Q5) What law created the Administration on Aging and outlined 10 objectives aimed at preserving the rights and dignity of older citizens?
Q6) Who must sign a death certificate when the person died from a fatal shooting?
Q7) What is forensic medicine?
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Chapter 10: Workplace Legalities
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Q1) Which of the following specifically states that any equipment that may pose a health risk is included as a hazard?
A) CDC guidelines
B) Chemical Hygiene Plan
C) General Duty Clause
D) Medical Waste Tracking Act
E) Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
Q2) The OSHA Ionizing Radiation Standard applies to all medical and dental offices that have
A) hazardous chemicals.
B) blood draw stations.
C) centrifuges.
D) x-ray machines.
E) autoclaves.
Q3) What is the purpose of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988?
Q4) What is the major responsibility for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
Q5) Identify, in order, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA's) five priorities for workplace inspections.
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Chapter 11: The Beginning of Life and Childhood
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Q1) What does the doctrine of parens patriae mean? Give an example.
Q2) Infertility is considered to be the failure to conceive in how many months or longer?
A) 6
B) 8
C) 12
D) 18
E) 20
Q3) Amniocentesis is what type of genetic testing?
A) carrier
B) forensic
C) prenatal testing
D) tracing lineage
E) predictive
Q4) What is gene therapy?
Q5) What does a genetic counselor do?
Q6) What is a gene?
Q7) What does the term genetics mean?
Q8) What is the safe haven law?
Q9) What is cloning?
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Chapter 12: Death and Dying
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Q1) A Persistent vegetative state(PVS) exists as a result of severe mental impairment, characterized by irreversible cessation of the higher functions of the brain, most often caused by damage to which of the following organs?
A) cerebral cortex
B) cerebellum
C) medulla oblongata
D) brain stem
E) heart
Q2) What is a health care proxy?
Q3) Which of the following correctly describes an aspect of hospice care?
A) Patients are referred to clergy for bereavement care.
B) Interdisciplinary care is not available to patients on hospice care.
C) Hospice care is not reimbursed by Medicare or Medicaid.
D) Most in-home hospice programs are independently run.
E) Hospice care only occurs in hospitals.
Q4) Using Kübler-Ross's model, identify the five stages of grief.
Q5) Define curative care.
Q6) Define thanatology.
Q7) Define persistent vegetative state (PVS).
Q8) What is a living will?
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Chapter 13: Health Care Trends and Forecasts
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Q1) All of the following are true about patients who see a primary care provider regularly except:
A) The patient pays more for health care.
B) Providers learn more about their patients and can coordinate care.
C) A primary care provider may be a nurse practitioner.
D) A primary care provider may be a physician assistant.
E) The patient has better health care outcomes.
Q2) What is the role of social media in health care?
Q3) The science of determining how genes cause the expression of certain traits in individuals is called:
A) rational drug design
B) genometrics
C) personalized medicine
D) pharmacogenomics
E) epigenetics
Q4) Define access as it relates to health care.
Q5) Why is the aging population a concern for health care policy makers and providers?
Q6) What is the role of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?
Q7) Define cost as it relates to health care.
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