WGU Healthcare Values and Ethics (C426)
Normative Ethics Correct Answer: Attempt to determine what moral standards should be followed so
that human behavior and conduct may be morally right.
Consequential Ethics Correct Answer: Theory of ethics emphasizes that the morally right action is
whatever action leads to the maximum balance of good over evil.
- What will be the effects of each course of action?
- Will they be positive or negative?
- Who will benefit?
- What will do the least harm?
Utilitarian Ethics Correct Answer: The concept that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by
its contribution to overall usefulness.
Deontological Ethics Correct Answer: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Doing the right thing is good, but it might not always lead to or increase the good and right thing sought
after.
Nonconsequential Ethics Correct Answer: An ethical theory that denies the consequences of an action
or rule are the only criteria for determining the morality of an action or rule.
The rightness or wrongness of an action is based on properties intrinsic to the action, not on its
consequences.
Ethical Relativism Correct Answer: Morality is relative to the norms of one's culture in which one lives.
Actions can be considered right or wrong depending on the accepted norms of the society in which they
are practiced
4 principles of ethics Correct Answer: 1. Beneficence
2. Nonmaleficence
3. Autonomy
4. Justice
Beneficence Correct Answer: Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action.
Nonmaleficence Correct Answer: Duty to do no harm
Autonomy Correct Answer: The right of a person to make one's own decision.
Justice Correct Answer: obligation to be fair in the distribution of benefits and risks
, Ethics Committee Composition Correct Answer: A multidisciplinary group of people consisting of
ethicists, educators, clinicians, legal advisers, and political leaders, clergy, QI managers, and corporate
leaders.
Ethics Committee Function Correct Answer: Development of policy and procedure guidelines to resolve
ethical dilemmas; staff and community education; conflict resolution; case reviews, support, and
consultation; and political advocacy.
Laws Impact On Healthcare Correct Answer:
Common Law Correct Answer: The body of principles that has evolved and expanded from judicial
decisions that arise during the trial of court cases.
"Reason and justice for all"
Statutory Law Correct Answer: Written law emanating from federal and state legislative bodies.
Administrative Law Correct Answer: The extensive body of public law issued by administrative agencies
to direct the enacted laws of the federal and state governments.
The branch of law that controls the administrative operations of governments.
Elements of Negligence Correct Answer: 1. Duty to care
2. Breach of duty
3. Injury/Actual Damages
4. Causation/Proximate Cause
Duty to Care Correct Answer: Duty is defined as a legal obligation of care, performance, or observance
imposed on one to safeguard the rights of others. This duty may arise from a special relationship such as
that between a physician and a patient.
Breach of Duty Correct Answer: Failure to use the degree of care required under the circumstances.
Injury/Actual Damages Correct Answer: Actual damages must be established.
Without injury damages cannot be awarded.
Causation/Proximate Cause Correct Answer: The fourth element necessary to establish negligence,
requires that there be a reasonable, close, and causal connection or relationship between the
defendant's negligent conduct and the resulting damages suffered by the plaintiff.
Negligence Correct Answer: Failure to take proper care in doing something.
Tort Law Correct Answer: A civil wrong, other than a breach of contract, committed against a person or
property (real or personal) for which a court provides a remedy in the form of an action for damages
______ actions touch an individual on both a personal and a professional level.
Normative Ethics Correct Answer: Attempt to determine what moral standards should be followed so
that human behavior and conduct may be morally right.
Consequential Ethics Correct Answer: Theory of ethics emphasizes that the morally right action is
whatever action leads to the maximum balance of good over evil.
- What will be the effects of each course of action?
- Will they be positive or negative?
- Who will benefit?
- What will do the least harm?
Utilitarian Ethics Correct Answer: The concept that the moral worth of an action is determined solely by
its contribution to overall usefulness.
Deontological Ethics Correct Answer: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Doing the right thing is good, but it might not always lead to or increase the good and right thing sought
after.
Nonconsequential Ethics Correct Answer: An ethical theory that denies the consequences of an action
or rule are the only criteria for determining the morality of an action or rule.
The rightness or wrongness of an action is based on properties intrinsic to the action, not on its
consequences.
Ethical Relativism Correct Answer: Morality is relative to the norms of one's culture in which one lives.
Actions can be considered right or wrong depending on the accepted norms of the society in which they
are practiced
4 principles of ethics Correct Answer: 1. Beneficence
2. Nonmaleficence
3. Autonomy
4. Justice
Beneficence Correct Answer: Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action.
Nonmaleficence Correct Answer: Duty to do no harm
Autonomy Correct Answer: The right of a person to make one's own decision.
Justice Correct Answer: obligation to be fair in the distribution of benefits and risks
, Ethics Committee Composition Correct Answer: A multidisciplinary group of people consisting of
ethicists, educators, clinicians, legal advisers, and political leaders, clergy, QI managers, and corporate
leaders.
Ethics Committee Function Correct Answer: Development of policy and procedure guidelines to resolve
ethical dilemmas; staff and community education; conflict resolution; case reviews, support, and
consultation; and political advocacy.
Laws Impact On Healthcare Correct Answer:
Common Law Correct Answer: The body of principles that has evolved and expanded from judicial
decisions that arise during the trial of court cases.
"Reason and justice for all"
Statutory Law Correct Answer: Written law emanating from federal and state legislative bodies.
Administrative Law Correct Answer: The extensive body of public law issued by administrative agencies
to direct the enacted laws of the federal and state governments.
The branch of law that controls the administrative operations of governments.
Elements of Negligence Correct Answer: 1. Duty to care
2. Breach of duty
3. Injury/Actual Damages
4. Causation/Proximate Cause
Duty to Care Correct Answer: Duty is defined as a legal obligation of care, performance, or observance
imposed on one to safeguard the rights of others. This duty may arise from a special relationship such as
that between a physician and a patient.
Breach of Duty Correct Answer: Failure to use the degree of care required under the circumstances.
Injury/Actual Damages Correct Answer: Actual damages must be established.
Without injury damages cannot be awarded.
Causation/Proximate Cause Correct Answer: The fourth element necessary to establish negligence,
requires that there be a reasonable, close, and causal connection or relationship between the
defendant's negligent conduct and the resulting damages suffered by the plaintiff.
Negligence Correct Answer: Failure to take proper care in doing something.
Tort Law Correct Answer: A civil wrong, other than a breach of contract, committed against a person or
property (real or personal) for which a court provides a remedy in the form of an action for damages
______ actions touch an individual on both a personal and a professional level.
