Chapter 22

Question 1

Autonomy

Answer 1

Commitment to include patients in decisions

Question 2

Beneficence

Answer 2

taking positive actions to help others

Question 3

Nonmaleficence

Answer 3

avoidance of harm or hurt

Question 4

justice

Answer 4

fairness

Question 5

fidelity

Answer 5

agreement to keep promises

Question 6

Code of ethics

Answer 6

A set of guiding principles that all members of a profession accept and helps professional groups settle questions about practice or behavior

Question 7

Advocacy

Answer 7

the support of a particular case

Question 8

responsibility

Answer 8

refers to a willingness to respect one’s professional obligations and to follow through

Question 9

Accountability

Answer 9

the ability to answer for ones actions

Question 10

confidentiality

Answer 10

protection of patients personal health information

Question 11

Social networking

Answer 11

interferes with your ability to maintain a therapeutic relationship

Question 12

ethics of care

Answer 12

strives to address issues beyond individual relationships by raising ethical concerns about the structures within which individual caring occurs- structures such as hospitals or universities

Question 13

quality of life

Answer 13

central to discussion about end of life care, cancer therapy, physician assisted suicide, and DNR

Question 14

Disabilities

Answer 14

antidiscrimination laws enhance the economic security of people with physical, mental, or emotional changes

Question 15

Care at the end of life

Answer 15

interventions unlikely to produce benefit for the patient

Question 16

health care reform

Answer 16

facilitated access to care for millions of uninsured americans