Healthcare Ethics Quiz

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Healthcare Ethics Quiz

Test your knowledge of healthcare ethics, professionalism, and the principles that guide health care professionals. This quiz features 65 carefully curated questions that challenge your understanding of ethical theories, competencies, and moral values essential in the healthcare field.

Whether you are a student, a professional, or simply interested in learning more about healthcare ethics, this quiz will help you expand your awareness and deepen your insights into important ethical concepts.

65 Multiple Choice Questions
Focus on core values and ethical principles
Interactive and educational

65 Questions16 MinutesCreated by ThinkingWhale237

_____is the quality of performing with the skill, knowledge, and abilities of a professional person; the possession of specialized knowledge and skill in a field of human endeavor.

Professionalism

Competency

Utilitarianism

Morality

______is having the skills, knowledge, and ability to perform a prescribed set of tasks or duties independently and with confidence.

Morality

Duty

Accreditation

Competency

Moral reasoning is the formulation of a morally ideal course of action.

True

False

_____are characteristics that are desirable in a health care professional.

Traits

Values

Professional Traits

Character

_________is collectively the qualities that define a person or group of persons.

Values

Traits

Character

Morals

_____was written in the 4th century and was the foundation for most ethical codes in health care.

Ethical Theory

Hippocratic Oath

Distributive Justice

Utilitarianism Rules

Duty is a solemn promise to do something or follow some guidelines.

True

False

_____is a nongovernmental process for ensuring that a predetermined set of standards has been met; used to assure the public that the graduates of a particular program are prepared to practice.

Consequentialism

Moral Reasoning

Accreditation

Licensure

_____ is a process regulated by a governmental agency whereby individuals are authorized to perform certain functions.

Rules

Regulation

Standards

Licensure

_____is that which is right or good; the quality of an action with regard to right and wrong.

Values

Ethics

Laws

Morality

_____ is the principle of self-determination in a person; the right to participate in and decide on a course of action without undue influence; provides the foundation for a right to privacy and the ability to choose.

Cosnequentialism

Autonomy

Distributive Justice

Nonconsequentialism

_____is that which is entrusted or held in secret; the precept by which information shared by a patient during the course of receiving health care is kept in confidence by the health care provider.

Oath

Confidentiality

Morality

Implied Consent

What is the act of providing information to and assuring the understanding of a patient regarding treatment risks, options, and the nature of the disease or problem?

Informed Consent

Written Consent

Consent

Verbal Consent

What stresses the greatest good for the greatest number?

Duty

Morality

Standards

Utilitarianism

What is known as an action or conduct based on moral or legal obligation?

Standard

Value

Duty

All of the above

Trait is a characteristic.

True

False

Which term defines acts where some acts are right or wrong independent of their consequences?

Distributive Justice

Consequentialism

Nonconsequentialism

Implied Consent

Values is the inquiry into the nature of morality or moral acts.

True

False

What is known as the allocation and distribution of resources for the good of society?

Distributive Justice

Deontology

Utilitarianism

Competency

Latin term that means “first, do no harm”.

Primum non nocere

Non danon

Al beru beru

Fui Fuiu

Informed Consent means to not specifically state or write but be capable of being inferred by action(s).

True

False

Predicated on the idea that the rightness or wrongness of any action is determined and justified by the consequences of the act judged in comparison with other possible acts that might be performed in the situation is knwon as,

Nonconsequentialism

Utilitarianism

Accreditation

Consequentialism

__________ considers principles and rules in general as they apply to types of actions.

Odontology

Deontology

Dedontology

Ordontology

What are the professional traits of a dental hygienist?

1. Honesty and Integrity

2. Caring and Compassion

3. Reliability and Responsibility

4. Interpersonal Comunication

5. Respect for Self and Others

6. Loyalty

7. All of the above

1, 2

1,3,4,5,

3,4,5,6

What are the core values of the ADHA Code of Ethics? Choose the best answer.

A. Autonomy, Nonmaleficence, Beneficence, Justice, Veracity, Confidentiality and Societal Trust.

B. Societal Trust, Confidentiality, Utilitarianism, Injustice, Nonjurisdiction, Autonomy, and Accreditation.

C. Nonmaleficence, Justice, Confidentiality, Competency, Distributive Justice, Veracity, and Autonomy.

None of the above

Who supported the Consequentialist theory (utilitarianism)?

John Stuart Mill

Immanuel Kant

Plato

Aristoltle

Who supported the Nonconsequentialist theory (Deontology)?

Plato

Aristoltle

Immanuel Kant

John Mill

Plato and Aristotle supported An ethical philosophy claiming that morality's primary function is to develop virtuous character. This philosophy is known as:

Ethics Values

Virtue Ethics

Ethical Theory

Laws of Ethics

Consequentialism is also known as Utilitarianism.

True

False

Nonconsequentialism is also know as:

Cobsequentialism

Deontology

Professionalism

Moral Reasoning

It's reasonable to assume that the profession finds codes of ethics to be extremely valuable.

True

False

The first ethical code was developed in:

England

France

Greece

Japan

Power and prestige is granted to professions because the codes of ethics is a promise to society to uphold certain values and standards in the practice of the profession

True

False

Ethical Decision Making is a _____ and can be done well or poorly.

Conduct

Behavior

Action

Misdemeanor

Ethical behavior is inherit and can not be taught or learned

True

False

People operate on their experiences to make sense of them. Their experiences that we make sense of Changes the basic conceptual structure by which people construct meaning.

Both statements are true

Both statements are false

The first statement is true; the second statement is false

The first statement is false; the second statement is true

Helping a Senior citizen cross the street is an example of what king of duty?

Imperfect duty (an obligation to help a person in need)

Perfect duty

Unique duty

Obligate duty

When was the inception of the profession of dental hygiene?

1945

1970

1915

1959

Society recognizes that health care providers are held to a higher standard than legislative mandate.

True

False

Guild Model

Presents dentistry as an all knowing profession

Describes the legal rights for all dental professions

Specifies dentistry as one and only realm of practice

None of the above

Where patients determine their own needs and the healthcare choices of their personal values and their priority that seek the care of a dentist because of his or her knowledge,

Guild Model

Interactive Model

Commercial Model

Noncommercial Model

The Commercial Model of Professionalism states that,

How often does a dental hygiene program undergo a formal on site review by Coda and ADA?

Every 3 years

Every 7 years

Every 5 years

Yearly

Disparities and inequalities in oral health care affect the most _________.These groups cannot access care for financial reasons, but lack of access also can be caused by fear and _______or cultural assumptions.

Low socioeconomic population; lack of education

Vulnerable population; complex psychosocial

Unhealthy population; anxiety

What year can we expect that the racial ethnic minority groups will constitute the majority of the US population?

2066

2050

2026

2070

Various populations have different perceptions and expectations of healthcare delivery and it will utilize health services in different ways. This shift will have a far-reaching implication for the delivery health care which will also be dental care

True

False

The goal of improving the health of the population a societal greater good benefiting the society as a large

True

False

Defining basic care is a daunting task, that challenges communities and the federal government.

True

False

Veracity is filled with inaccuracy

True

False

An esthetical dilemma occurs when there is______

Confusion

Conflict

Problems

Solutions

A healthcare provider may not always be able to avoid harm, because causing some degree of harm, when that harm will lead to some greater good may be necessary.

True

False

The provision of dental care is applied equally in the US

True

False

People who present for treatment are granted access based on their dental needs

True

False

If we suspect child abuse, we should put the _____ of the child over the autonomy of the patient ( the stronger duty in this situation is that of the child and not the parent)

Trust

Care

Welfare

Life

Ethical decision making is learned throughout______.

Rules

Regulations

Life

Advice

Categorized by Campbell and Rogers situations in which no choice is clearly and indisputably right,

Moral reasoning

Moral dilemma

Social integrity

Cultural sensitivity

When developing a list of pros and cons, it must be based on ethical decisions.

True

False

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