Ch. 5 Healthcare Ethics

Question 1

What is the role of the CEJA?

Answer 1

Analyzes ethical issues in healthcare and develops ethical policies and recommendations

Question 2

What is gestational surrogacy?

Answer 2

Sperm and egg come from the donors and the surrogate is not related at all.

Question 3

What does a medical durable power of attorney include?

Answer 3

Similar to a living well but includes all healthcare decisions. As long as a person is not able to. Names of healthcare proxy, and can include healthcare wishes. It can be used when the situation is not terminal.

Question 4

Define the national organ transplant act and include who it is run by.

Answer 4

The act establishes the Organ, Procurement and Transplant Network to be run by contract by the security of health and human services. The act established a national registry for organ matching. NOTA also made it a criminal action to exchange organs for a transplant for something of value.

Question 5

What is it called if a patient does not want to be resuscitated in a medical emergency?

Answer 5

DNR

Question 6

This test is used to detect, genetic or chromosomal issues before birth?

Answer 6

Prenatal testing

Question 7

What is intrauterine insemination?

Answer 7

specially prepared sperm is placed into a woman’s uterus using a long, narrow tube. The woman’s partner’s sperm or a donor sperm can be used.

Question 8

What document addresses the importance of human research, physician, obligations, informed consent, and participant protection?

Answer 8

The declaration of Helsinki

Question 9

What are hospice care goals?

Answer 9

To allow patients who are dying to have dignity, comfort, and peace.

Question 10

What type of adoption does not have open lines of contact between birth and adoptive parents?

Answer 10

Closed adoptions

Question 11

Describe the Belmont report.

Answer 11

Written in 1976 by the national commission for the protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research. The report identifies basic ethical principles and guidelines regarding human subject research.

Question 12

Autonomy

Answer 12

The freedom to determine one’s own actions and decisions

Question 13

Ethics

Answer 13

Rules of conduct that differentiate between acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.

Question 14

Code of ethics

Answer 14

A set of rules about good and bad behavior

Question 15

Living will

Answer 15

Provides instructions about life sustaining medical treatment to be administered or withheld when a patient has a terminal condition.

Question 16

Healthcare proxy

Answer 16

A competent adult can appoint a person called a proxy to make healthcare decisions in the event he or she is unable to do so

Question 17

Patient self-determination act

Answer 17

Became law in 1990 and requires most healthcare institutions at the time of admission to do the following: Provide patients with a written document of the rights to make decisions in the facilities policies respecting advanced directives. Ask patients if they have advanced directives and document the response in the health record.

Question 18

Xenotransplantation

Answer 18

Any procedure in which non-human cells, tissues and organs are implanted or infused into a patient.

Question 19

Beneficence

Answer 19

Means to do good

Question 20

Germline cells

Answer 20

Sperm and egg cells