11 Questions
What does the principle of confidentiality require health care workers to respect?
Patient's right to privacy
Which ethical principle requires health care workers to contribute to the health and well-being of their patients?
Beneficence
What Act was established to establish standards for privacy of individually identifiable health information?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
What duty do practitioners have according to the principle of 'Role duty'?
Understand limits of role and practice with fidelity
What is the primary concern of ethics?
How should we act
Which principle acknowledges a patient's personal liberty and right to decide their own course of treatment?
Autonomy
Under which principle is any use of deceit to get a patient to reverse a decision to refuse treatment considered unethical?
Autonomy
Which principle obligates health care providers to avoid harming the patient and to actively prevent harm when possible?
Nonmaleficence
What does the principle of veracity bind health care providers and patients to do?
Be truthful
What problems occur when treatment has serious side effects under which principle?
Nonmaleficence
Which principle deals with issues of benevolent deception, such as withholding truth from a patient for their own good?
Veracity
Test your knowledge of the ethical principles related to respiratory care, including autonomy and informed consent. Explore the ethical theories and principles that guide decision-making in respiratory care.
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