FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT EDGANS CHAPTER 5

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT EDGANS CHAPTER 5

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-Guarantee passing score -43 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: 26.A respiratory therapist who engages in a questionable business practice is committing what type of malpractice?

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Ethical Question 2: 4.In most professions, who provides the specific guidance in resolving ethical dilemmas?

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Code of ethics Question 3: 41.What does The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) do for each individual health care worker?

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Provides protection to hospital workers with or without union Question 4: 10.The debate over prolongation of life versus relief of suffering in elderly patients mainly involves differing opinions regarding what ethical principle?

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Beneficence

Question 5: 17.A clinician who justifies not billing a poor patient for services rendered because "that's what a professional should do" is applying what ethical viewpoint?

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Virtue ethics

Question 6: 2.What simple question does ethics attempt to answer?

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How should we act Question 7: 14.What has played a minor role in increasing the cost of health care?

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Compensatory justice

Question 8: 36.How can ethical obligations be used in legal proceedings?

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As a tool of cross examination Question 9: 30.A physician specifies an incorrect dose in a prescription for a bronchodilator drug to be given to an asthmatic patient. When the respiratory therapist gives the prescribed dose, the patient dies, against who could a suit of negligence be brought?

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RT, attending physician, dispensing pharmacist Question 10: 31.HIPAA is primarily referred to as the Privacy Rule and is concerned with PHI.What do the letters PHI stand for?

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Protected health information Question 11: 9.What ethical principle can be used to justify the pain that might occur in drawing blood from a patient for a diagnostic test?

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Double effect

Question 12: 13.The moral basis for rationing health care services falls under what ethical principle?

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Distributive justice Question 13: 40.What is the role of the corporate compliance officer (CCO) in a health care setting?

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Oversees hospital practices and makes sure they conform to the law Question 14: 33.What conditions are necessary to incur liability under the doctrine of respondent superior?

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Injury must be a result of negligence; act must occur within subordinates' scope

Question 15: 27.What are NOT considered intentional torts?

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Negligent practice Question 16: 23.In a case of professional negligence, what is/are NOT required to support a

claim of res Ipsa loquitur:

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Evidence must show the defendant acted with maleficence Question 17: 39.What can be effective tools in preventing malpractice litigations?

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Ris management practice, guest relations policy, continue education Question 18: 6.What are the primary guiding principles in contemporary ethical decision making?

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Nonmaleficence, autonomy, justice and role fidelity

Question 19: 34.Which of the following is not a common element in a professional practice act?

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Professional code of ethics Question 20: 22.What tenets are necessary to validate a claim of professional negligence?

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Practitioner owed a duty, breach of duty caused the damage, harm or damage came to the patient Question 21: 12.Under what conditions can the principle of confidentiality be breached?

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When the welfare of the community or individual is at stake Question 22: 20.What branch of law is concerned with the recognition and enforcement of the rights and duties of private individuals and organizations?

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Civil Question 23: 35.If a respiratory therapist refers a Medicare patient to a particular home care company and receives a finder's fee in return, this is an example of?

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Medicare fraud Question 24: 16.A clinician who justifies support for withdrawing life support from a patient because "in the end, it would be best for all involved" is applying what ethical viewpoint?

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Consequentialism Question 25: 15.When a respiratory therapist defers a patient's questions about a condition to the attending physician, what ethical principle is being practiced?

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Role fidelity Question 26: .What ethical issue has recently become a significant concern for respiratory therapists and all health care providers due to a congressional act?

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Patients right to privacy