MA 100 Week 3 Study Guide
Questions and Answers.
etiquette - Answer What is the name for normal, acceptable behavior is society?
fidelity - Answer What is another name for the duty to meet reasonable expectations of
patients?
Suggesting possible diagnoses to the physician - Answer List how medical assistants can
function as patient advocates?
Autonomy - Answer What is the name for a patient's right to make decisions about health
care according to individual values and concerns?
Autonomy - Answer What right is the basis from informed consent?
Beneficence - Answer What is the name for the concept that a health professional should do
the best possible?
Veracity - Answer This expectation of truthfulness by all health care workers is called?
Understanding of a medical procedure and its possible outcomes - Answer Informed consent
is consent based on?
Genetic engineering - Answer The experimental treatments that attempt to treat or cure
disease by giving patients new genes or parts of genes that have been synthesized in the
laboratory, taken from human tissue, or engineered form genetic material of animals or other
species is called?
patient self-determination act - Answer Which 1990 law recognizes the right of adults to
refuse treatment for disease?
Informed consent form - Answer Which of the following does NOT fall into the category of
advance directives?
Gather information - Answer As a medical assistant, ethical decisions need to be made.
What is the first thing an MA must do to implement the six-step process to make ethical
decisions?
, Identified conflicting values, rights, duties, and desires - Answer While attempting to make
an ethical decision, Stacy has determined that she does not wish to cause problems and she
wants to avoid hassle. However, she feels that patient treatment may be compromised. What
has Stacy done?
States an individual's wishes regarding health care if the individual is not able to speak for him
or herself
Names an individual to make decisions for an individual if he or she becomes incapable of doing
this
Expresses an individual's wish to donate organs when he or she dies
States an individual's wish not to be resuscitated if his or her heart stops beating - Answer
List some purposes of an advance directive?
criminal law - Answer What is the branch of law that deals with offenses against the public
welfare that affect all people?
Administrative Law - Answer What type of law refers to a law arising from the actions of
federal government agencies such as the Social Security Administration and the Internal
Revenue Service?
Ordinances - Answer Cities and towns enact laws that have to do with the general welfare of
its citizens. What are these laws called?
Felony - Answer What is the name for a serious crime punishable by death or imprisonment?
Fraud - Answer What is the name for the crime of billing an insurance company for tests and
procedures that were never performed?
A contract - Answer What is the legal nature of the doctor-patient relationship?
A 35-year-old woman with a hip fracture? - Answer Which of the following patients that
would not be able to give informed consent for treatment?
Notify the patient in writing - Answer How should a physician terminate a relationship with a
patient in order to avoid a possible lawsuit for abandonment?
Responsibility - Answer What is the legal meaning of the word "liability"?
Questions and Answers.
etiquette - Answer What is the name for normal, acceptable behavior is society?
fidelity - Answer What is another name for the duty to meet reasonable expectations of
patients?
Suggesting possible diagnoses to the physician - Answer List how medical assistants can
function as patient advocates?
Autonomy - Answer What is the name for a patient's right to make decisions about health
care according to individual values and concerns?
Autonomy - Answer What right is the basis from informed consent?
Beneficence - Answer What is the name for the concept that a health professional should do
the best possible?
Veracity - Answer This expectation of truthfulness by all health care workers is called?
Understanding of a medical procedure and its possible outcomes - Answer Informed consent
is consent based on?
Genetic engineering - Answer The experimental treatments that attempt to treat or cure
disease by giving patients new genes or parts of genes that have been synthesized in the
laboratory, taken from human tissue, or engineered form genetic material of animals or other
species is called?
patient self-determination act - Answer Which 1990 law recognizes the right of adults to
refuse treatment for disease?
Informed consent form - Answer Which of the following does NOT fall into the category of
advance directives?
Gather information - Answer As a medical assistant, ethical decisions need to be made.
What is the first thing an MA must do to implement the six-step process to make ethical
decisions?
, Identified conflicting values, rights, duties, and desires - Answer While attempting to make
an ethical decision, Stacy has determined that she does not wish to cause problems and she
wants to avoid hassle. However, she feels that patient treatment may be compromised. What
has Stacy done?
States an individual's wishes regarding health care if the individual is not able to speak for him
or herself
Names an individual to make decisions for an individual if he or she becomes incapable of doing
this
Expresses an individual's wish to donate organs when he or she dies
States an individual's wish not to be resuscitated if his or her heart stops beating - Answer
List some purposes of an advance directive?
criminal law - Answer What is the branch of law that deals with offenses against the public
welfare that affect all people?
Administrative Law - Answer What type of law refers to a law arising from the actions of
federal government agencies such as the Social Security Administration and the Internal
Revenue Service?
Ordinances - Answer Cities and towns enact laws that have to do with the general welfare of
its citizens. What are these laws called?
Felony - Answer What is the name for a serious crime punishable by death or imprisonment?
Fraud - Answer What is the name for the crime of billing an insurance company for tests and
procedures that were never performed?
A contract - Answer What is the legal nature of the doctor-patient relationship?
A 35-year-old woman with a hip fracture? - Answer Which of the following patients that
would not be able to give informed consent for treatment?
Notify the patient in writing - Answer How should a physician terminate a relationship with a
patient in order to avoid a possible lawsuit for abandonment?
Responsibility - Answer What is the legal meaning of the word "liability"?
