MT6313 UNIT 11-12 Flashcards
What are the Main Areas of Applied Health Ethics?
- Free and Informed Consent
- Issues at the Beginning of Life
- Helping the Suffering
- Death
- Relating to other Health Care Givers
What does Free and Informed Consent protect?
patient’s integrity
T or F: Informed consent has charge
F
When is Free and Informed Consent given?
Before collecting body fluids from a patient
Can Free and Informed Consent be vocally expressed?
Yes
Documentation that gives interpretation that the patient is willing to undergo the medical procedure
Free and Informed Consent
What does Free and Informed Consent recognize?
The person’s responsibility for his/her own body
What does Free and Informed Consent enhance?
patient’s active role in caring for his own health
Purpose of Informed Consent?
- Protective: Safeguards against intrusion of integrity
- Participative: Allows for patient’s involvement in decision-making
What are the Elements of Informed Consent?
- Patient Comprehension
- Patient’s Consent
- Knowledge
Knowledge includes the disclosure of all information to the patient by the healthcare giver. This includes?
- truth and nature of the proposed action
- probable benefits and risks
- All information relevant to meaningful decision-making processes
To let the patient have comprehension of the information, it must be given how?
in a manner that is easily understood
use of familiar language and suitable information
must enable the patient to truly appreciate the information
_____ includes the decision/s made based on sound reasons
Patient’s Consent
Patient’s Consent includes the absence of undue pressure such as?
- time constraint
- persuasion, threat, coercion
- deception, manipulation
- fear
- other forms of control
If the patient cannot give informed consent, who can provide consent in their place?
- patient’s nearest of kin
- patient’s guardian
- patient’s representative
Many religious authorities claim that life
begins at the moment of?
conception
What starts the from the time of conception?
sacredness of life
A child must be borne out of?
a conjugal union between husband and wife
T or F: Caring for a pregnant patient is challenging
T
Treating the mother is equivalent to?
Treating the child in her womb
T or F: Treating the child in the mother’s womb is treating the mother.
T
Health and welfare of who should be taken into consideration?
Both child and mother
Life is a _____ that has to be ________
a gift which has to be protected
T or F: Life cannot be sustained forever
T