Healthcare Ethics: Autonomy and Ethical Principles

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Which ethical principle obliges one to allow individuals to self-determine their plans and actions?

  • Beneficence
  • Autonomy (correct)
  • Non Maleficence
  • Justice

What is an example of a clear violation of individual autonomy mentioned in the text?

  • Tuskegee study - withholding information about a treatment for syphilis from African-American men (correct)
  • Principle of Proportionality
  • Respecting personal liberty and choices based on personal values
  • Derivative Principles of Autonomy

What do the derivative principles of autonomy, privacy, and confidentiality entail?

  • Protecting personal information of patients (correct)
  • Ensuring justice in healthcare ethics
  • Intruding on the personal space and business of a patient
  • Obliging individuals to self-determine their plans and actions

Which principle involves respecting the personal liberty of individuals and the choices they make?

<p>Principle of Autonomy (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the principle that obliges health care providers to protect the personal information of the patient?

<p>Principle of Privacy (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the Tuskegee study, what was withheld from the participants?

<p>Information about an effective treatment for syphilis (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What principle requires patients to receive all pertinent information about their health condition and the options for treatment?

<p>Principle of Informed Consent (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which principle obligates nurses to ensure that patients' needs and values are heard and respected?

<p>Principle of Advocacy (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the moral and inviolable power vested in patients as a person to demand something as their own?

<p>Patients' Right (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What refers to a patient's capacity for decision making?

<p>Competence Disclosure (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which right allows a patient to refuse medical treatment based on their religious conviction?

<p>Right to Refusal of Treatment (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What principle ensures that patients' will, not the provider's, is carried out in their treatments?

<p>Principle of Advocacy (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the four major elements of Informed Consent?

<p>Comprehension, Competence Disclosure, Duty, Right to Informed Choice (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What principle emphasizes being vigilant about holding conversations that include references to specific patients?

<p>Principle of Privacy and Confidentiality (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is considered competent for decision-making according to Competence Disclosure?

<p>'Justify one’s choice in a reasonable manner' (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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