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Legal and Ethics in Healthcare Quizlet Questions
Question 1 of 5
This type of law protects the rights of an individual and encourages a fair trial and equal treatment for all and involves cases where harm was done to an individual or property and involves the payment of money.
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Civil law protects the rights of individuals and ensures a fair trial and equal treatment for all. It deals with cases where harm has been done to an individual or their property and involves the payment of money as compensation. Unlike criminal law, which focuses on punishing crimes against society, civil law focuses on resolving disputes between individuals or entities. This includes matters such as contracts, torts, property disputes, and family law.
Question 2 of 5
Which of the following terms refers to the ethical questions that arise out of nursing practice?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Nursing ethics refers to ethical questions that arise out of nursing practice. Bioethics is a broader field that refers to the application of ethics to healthcare. An ethical dilemma occurs when a choice must be made between two equally undesirable actions, and there is no clearly right or wrong option. Moral distress occurs when someone is unable to carry out his or her moral decision.
Question 3 of 5
The nurse is a member of the ethics committee. An alert, oriented, and competent 87-year-old man has asked to have a DNAR order put on his chart. The patient's family does not agree with his decision and requests the ethics committee to intervene on their behalf. The ethics committee would most likely use which model in this patient's case?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The autonomy model is useful when the patient is competent to decide. This model emphasizes patient autonomy and choice as the highest values. The patient benefit model assists in decision making for the incompetent patient by using substituted judgment. The social justice model focuses more on broad social issues involving the entire institution rather than on a single patient issue. There is no DNAR determination model.
Question 4 of 5
Identify the client with the greatest risk for developing protein-calorie malnutrition.
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: This client would have the greatest increase in metabolic demand for energy/nutrients due to trauma and fever, running the greatest risk for not having those energy demands met. Fever increases energy needs by approximately 7 kcal per degree Celsius above normal.
Question 5 of 5
Using the MORAL acronym for making an ethical decision, under which 'letter' would the following action fall? The physician explains to the laboring woman the impact on the unborn child of refusing a cesarean birth.
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The letter 'O' in the MORAL acronym represents outlining options, where the physician explains consequences and listens to the patient's viewpoint.