M&A TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS.
What is one important reason for a medical assistant to study ethics?
To develop the intellectual skills to analyze complex problems
What is the name of an individual's own beliefs about right and wrong in our society?
Morals
Current thinking about biomedical ethics identifies several rights. What is a right?
A strong claim
Early leaders of the American government believed in natural rights and the duty of any
government to preserve them. Which of the following is not one of the rights?
Right to a share of society's resources
What is another name for the duty to meet reasonable expectations of patients?
Fidelity
What is the name for a patient's right to make decisions about health care according to
individual values and concerns?
Autonomy
What right is the basis for informed consent?
Right to autonomy
What is the name for the concept that a health professional should do the best possible?
Beneficence
In today's health car environment, it is seen as a proactive duty that physicians and other
health care professionals must provide truthful information without having to be asked.
This expectation of truthfulness by all health care workers is called:
Veracity
, Informed consent is consent based on:
Understanding of a medical procedure and it's possible outcomes
What type of consent occurs if a patient offers an arm when the medical assistant says it is
time to obtain a blood sample?
Implied consent
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 from genetic material of animals or other species is called:
Genetic Engineering
What is required for expressed consent?
Verbal agreement
Which 1990 law recognizes the rights of adults to refuse treatment for disease?
Patient self-determination act
Is physician-assisted suicide legal in certain states?
Yes
In her role as medical assistant, Stacy has an important ethical decision to make. She has
decided to implement the six-step process to make ethical decisions. What is the first thing
she must do?
Gather information
While attempting to make an ethical decision, Stacy has determined that she does not wish
to cause problems and she wants to avoid a hassle. However, she feels that patient
treatment may be compromised. What has Stacy done?
Identified conflicting values, rights, duties, and desires
What is the purpose of an advance directive?
ANSWERS.
What is one important reason for a medical assistant to study ethics?
To develop the intellectual skills to analyze complex problems
What is the name of an individual's own beliefs about right and wrong in our society?
Morals
Current thinking about biomedical ethics identifies several rights. What is a right?
A strong claim
Early leaders of the American government believed in natural rights and the duty of any
government to preserve them. Which of the following is not one of the rights?
Right to a share of society's resources
What is another name for the duty to meet reasonable expectations of patients?
Fidelity
What is the name for a patient's right to make decisions about health care according to
individual values and concerns?
Autonomy
What right is the basis for informed consent?
Right to autonomy
What is the name for the concept that a health professional should do the best possible?
Beneficence
In today's health car environment, it is seen as a proactive duty that physicians and other
health care professionals must provide truthful information without having to be asked.
This expectation of truthfulness by all health care workers is called:
Veracity
, Informed consent is consent based on:
Understanding of a medical procedure and it's possible outcomes
What type of consent occurs if a patient offers an arm when the medical assistant says it is
time to obtain a blood sample?
Implied consent
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 from genetic material of animals or other species is called:
Genetic Engineering
What is required for expressed consent?
Verbal agreement
Which 1990 law recognizes the rights of adults to refuse treatment for disease?
Patient self-determination act
Is physician-assisted suicide legal in certain states?
Yes
In her role as medical assistant, Stacy has an important ethical decision to make. She has
decided to implement the six-step process to make ethical decisions. What is the first thing
she must do?
Gather information
While attempting to make an ethical decision, Stacy has determined that she does not wish
to cause problems and she wants to avoid a hassle. However, she feels that patient
treatment may be compromised. What has Stacy done?
Identified conflicting values, rights, duties, and desires
What is the purpose of an advance directive?
