Module 4

Question 1

____________ rights are the most important priority in the Weber model of ethics decision making. (1 word)

Answer 1

individual

Question 2

Healthcare reform is driven by the conclusion that health care is a human ______. (1 word)

Answer 2

right

Question 3

Which best describes the relationship between health information management, health information technology, and health information systems?

Answer 3

Health information management and health information technology work together to select, implement, and manage health information systems

Question 4

A pharmaceutical company seeking participants for a new drug trial pays a healthcare provider to provide medical records of patients with specific conditions that the drug targets so that they can recruit the patients for their study. Which of the following has occurred?

Answer 4

HIPAA violation

Question 5

Why is healthcare data frequently the target of ransomware attacks?

Answer 5

Healthcare data is time sensitive, so cyber attackers are more likely to get paid quickly

Question 6

An unethical healthcare provider would most likely ask which of the following questions?

Answer 6

“How can I use healthcare data to benefit myself?”

Question 7

The health insurer at a company rewards employees who engage in physical activity by providing bill credits to those who walk an average of 8,000 steps per day. Employees who participate in the program wear a device that automatically transmits step number, heart rate, location, and other data to the insurance company for analysis. Which is/are the ethical concern(s) related to the program?

Answer 7

Should the collected data be included in individual medical records or medical insurance records?

AND

Does the transmission of the data pose a risk to individuals’ protected health information?

Question 8

According to Weber’s model for business ethics in healthcare, which should take first priority in ethical decision-making?

Answer 8

individual rights

Question 9

True or False? The primary purpose of a health information system is to collect and analyze data, converting it into information that healthcare providers can use in decision-making.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True or False? Individuals usually apply the same ethics to anonymous online behavior as they do to face-to-face interactions.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

According to the data found in this chapter, which of the following is one of the biggest problems related to safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM)?

Answer 11

Equipment is not available and or is underused

Question 12

The patient who is paraplegic and only weighs 98 pounds is asking to be transferred from the bed to the wheelchair. The nurse practicing beneficence and nonmaleficence should take which action?

Answer 12

Obtain transfer equipment and wait for assistance

Question 13

The physical therapist (PT) is training a newly employed PT and they are preparing to ambulate with a patient in the hallway using a walker. The new PT asks, “Should we use a wheelchair behind the patient in case the patient gets tired and needs to sit down?” Which response, if made by the PT, would best be classified as nonmaleficence?

Answer 13

“I will get the patient sitting up, while you obtain a wheelchair.”

Question 14

True or False? Beneficence is the first behavior that health providers should follow when caring for patients.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

True or False? National Institute for Occupations Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Veterans Health Administration are partners working with 26 nursing schools to further safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) curricula.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

There are different ways that health can be defined. How does bioethicist Norman Daniels’ definition of health (“the absence of pathology, mental or physical”) differ from that of the constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) definition (“complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”)?

Answer 16

His definition is much narrower in scope

Question 17

Why is providing definitions of health, or subjective experience of symptoms, comparing populations to determine the levels of inequality between them often difficult?

Answer 17

Different populations can have very different health belief systems

Question 18

Which of the following is required to determine whether a specific situation is inequitable or not?

Answer 18

the measurement and comparison of the status of at least two populations