Introduction to Health Care 4th Edition By Mitchell-Test Bank

Test Bank For Overview of Health Care 4th Version By Mitchell

ISBN-10:1305575075 , ISBN-13:978-1305575073

CHAPTER 3

Correct / Incorrect

1. Ethical bundles are constructed on the validated principles of a nation.

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Incorrect

POINTS: 1

NOTES: The converse is true: validated principles are typically constructed on the ethical guidelines of a community.

2. The solutions to most ethical concerns in health care can be discovered within the code of ethics in your professional field.

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Incorrect

POINTS: 1

NOTES: Codes of ethics offer guiding principles, not solutions to ethical queries.

3. Personal principles should generally be set aside if they conflict with facility rules concerning patient care.​

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Correct

POINTS: 1

NOTES: Personal principles often conflict with workplace policies.

4. It is lawful to extract organs following a patient’s demise, without their prior consent or that of their family, if there are patients in the same facility waiting for transplants.

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Incorrect

POINTS: 1

NOTES: Consent is necessary for organ harvesting.

5. Provided a patient consents to a procedure, the health care professional is ensured protection from accusations of battery.

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Incorrect

POINTS: 1

NOTES: There are no guarantees against accusations—accusations can be made regardless. However, the professional can be proven innocent.

6. Medical facilities are mandated by federal statute to inform patients of their right to establish advance directives.

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Correct

POINTS: 1

NOTES: This is current federal law.

7. Patient confidentiality may be breached, if necessary, to report suspected abuse.

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Correct

POINTS: 1

NOTES: Suspected abuse must be reported.

8. Health care practitioners cannot be held legally responsible for the actions of their employees if the staff have not followed the employer’s instructions.

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Incorrect

POINTS: 1

NOTES: Employers can be held accountable for the actions of their staff, even if the staff do not comply with their employers’ directives.

9. It is unlawful for the physician who certifies a patient’s death to engage in any activities involving removing organs from a deceased patient for transplant into another patient.

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Correct

POINTS: 1

NOTES: Physicians may not partake in removing organs from a deceased patient if they certified the death.

10. A primary cause for malpractice suits is weak interpersonal connections between patients and health care providers.

a. Correct

b. Incorrect

ANSWER: Correct

POINTS: 1

NOTES: Patients lacking strong interpersonal connections with their health care providers are more likely to file malpractice suits.

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