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Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals 5th Edition Pozgar Test Bank Multiple Choice

• Ethics is important in that it helps individuals behave within accepted ,

principles, and values and live in harmony with the environment and one another.

• science
• philosophy
• boundaries
• mathematical probability

Answer: C

• ethics is a form of ethics based on an individual’s personal views of right and

wrong, commonly based on personal life experiences.

• Philosophical
• Macro
• Definitive
• Micro

Answer: D

• We study ethics to aid us in making judgments, good decisions, and right

choices.

• fairly accurate
• sound
• personal
• dictatorial

Answer: B

• A code that generally prescribes standards of _ states principles expressing

responsibilities and defines the roles and duties of the professionals to whom they apply.

• personality
• theory
• conduct
• management

Answer: C 1 / 4

• dilemmas arise when values, rights, duties, and loyalties conflict, meaning

that everyone may not be satisfied with a particular decision.

• Micro
• Moral
• Macro
• Normative

Answer: B

• Ethical are universal rules of conduct, derived from theories that provide

a practical basis for what kinds of actions, intentions, and motives are valued.

• principles
• laws
• beneficence
• autonomy

Answer: A

• The obligation to be fair in the distribution of benefits and risks is referred to as

.

• autonomy
• government spending
• justice
• injustice

Answer: C

• ethics focuses on the inherent character of a person rather than on the

specific actions that he or she performs.

• Theoretical
• Virtue
• Resilience
• Situational

Answer: B 2 / 4

• Values may change as needs change. This is often referred to as ethics.
• malfeasance
• situational
• beneficence
• noncontributory

Answer: B

• What are the pillars that build one’s moral strength? What sets each person apart? In

the final analysis, it is one’s virtues and values that build moral .

• compassion
• character
• fidelity
• honesty

Answer: B

• We can learn from how past generations thought and acted, how they

responded to the demands of their time, and how they solved their problems.

• history
• commitment
• prophecy
• psychology

Answer: A

• In ethics, requires each person to be objective, unbiased, dispassionate,

impartial, and consistent with the principles of ethics.

• freedom
• hopefulness
• fairness
• tolerance

Answer: C

• serves a moral purpose by providing codes of conduct for appropriate

behavior through revelations from a divine source.

• Tolerance 3 / 4

• Regression
• Situational
• Religion

Answer: D

• The branch of philosophy that deals with values relating to human conduct is

.

• morality
• ethics
• virtues
• paternalism

Answer: B

• is primarily concerned with establishing standards or norms for conduct.
• Normative ethics
• Distributive ethics
• Fidelity
• Beneficence

Answer: A

• The critical study of major moral precepts, such as what things are right and what

things are good, is referred to as .

• morality
• general normative ethics
• distributive justice
• morality

Answer: B

• The application of normative theories to practical moral problems is referred to as

.

• normative ethics
• distributive justice
• secular ethics
• applied ethics
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