Health Care Law/Ethics (2)

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Understanding Health Care Law and Ethics

Test your knowledge of health care law and ethics with this comprehensive quiz designed for nursing professionals. Each question delves into key regulations, ethical principles, and legal standards that govern the health care sector.

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The new nurse correctly defines a law when stating which information?

�Law is a fundamental concept for health care professionals.”

�Law’s rule is developed by the employee's organization.”

�Law’s rule is enacted by a government agency that defines what must be done in a given circumstance.”

�Law is a mandate from the Joint Commission or other accrediting agency.”

Which of the following is true about health care legislation?

The US Constitution addresses health care law specifically to give the federal government the ability to license professionals and institutions.

The power of the US Constitution does not have a direct relationship to health care and reserves most of the power to the states.

State laws are considered the highest source of health care law and trump the federal laws.

The federal government asserts its power over health care legislation through the US Constitution.

Which is an example of the regulatory power to make law?

Joint Commission establishing a medication reconciliation standard.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developing recommendations for childhood immunizations.

Institute of Medicine (IOM) defining the approximate number of medication errors that result in significant patient harm or death.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) enacting rules for restraint and seclusion for participating hospitals.

What is one of the major attributes of health care law?

It defines the expected behavior of persons in the business of health care.

The law or rule is easy to interpret and comply with.

It is established by any health care authority.

The creator must be an expert in health care.

The admission personnel working to comply with the Patient Self Determination Act of 1991 would do which of the following?

Request identification from the patient to complete the registration process.

Ask the patient if they would like a private or semi-private room.

Inquire about the patient’s reason for their visit.

Ask the patient or representative if the patient has an advanced directive and inform them of their right to participate in their medical decisions.

Which of the following is an example of a nurse violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996?

The nurse asks the unit clerk to look up lab values for her relative recently admitted to the hospital.

A group of fellow employees are discussing a patient’s clinical status in a public place. The nurse manager requests that they step into private room to complete the discussion.

After entering the progress notes on a patient’s electronic medical record, the nurse logs off the computer to allow her coworker to use the terminal.

As a family approaches the nursing desk, the nurse removes the patient census sheet from view on the counter.

In which of the following answers is the hospital in compliance with the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA)?

The emergency department staff asks a patient to stay in the waiting room until the patients with insurance are treated.

The emergency registration personnel explain to a patient that they must have proper identification to receive treatment.

A patient with chest pain is triaged directly to a room for evaluation and registration information is obtained after the patient is stabilized.

The emergency department physician discharges and instructs a patient who is actively suicidal to go the neighbor facility that has psychiatric services.

Which of the following is false regarding state licensure laws?

These laws establish the requirements for licensure to practice.

Licensure is not necessary if the individual has completed training.

The state regulatory agencies such as the state board of nursing are responsible for creating and enforcing these rules.

The scope of practice defines what the professional can and cannot do within the scope of their licensure.

A patient suffered a brain injury from a motor vehicle accident and has no brain activity. The patient has a living will which states no heroic measures. The family requests that no additional heroic measures be instituted for their son. The nurse respects this decision in keeping with which principle?

Accountability

Autonomy

Nonmaleficence

Veracity

A male patient suffered a brain injury from a motor vehicle accident and has no brain activity. The spouse has come up to see the patient every day for the past 2 months. She asks the nurse, “Do you think when he moves his hands he is responding to my voice?” The nurse feels bad because she believes the movements are involuntary, and the prognosis is grim for this patient. She states, “He can hear you, and it appears he did respond to your voice.” The nurse is violating which principle of ethics?

Autonomy

Veracity

Utilitarianism

Deontology

The nurse is faced with an ethical issue. When assessing the ethical issue, which action should the nurse perform first?

Ask, “What is the issue?”

Identify all possible alternatives.

Select the best option from a list of alternatives.

Justify the choice of action or inaction.

A nursing student is conducting a survey of fellow nursing students. Which ethical concept is the student following when calculating the risk-to-benefit ratio and concluding that no harmful effects were associated with a survey?

Beneficence

Human dignity

Justice

Human rights

A nurse on the unit makes an error in the calculation of the dose of medication for a critically ill patient. The patient suffered no ill consequences from the administration. The nurse decides not to report the error or file an incident report. The nurse is violating which principle of ethics?

Fidelity

Individuality

Justice

Values clarification

6. An unconscious patient is treated in the emergency department for head trauma. The patient is unconscious and on life support for 2 weeks prior to making a full recovery. The initial actions of the medical team are based on which ethical principle?

Utilitarianism

Deontology

Autonomy

Veracity

A drug-addicted nurse switches a patient's morphine injection with normal saline so that the nurse can use the morphine. The nurse is violating which principles of ethics? (Select all that apply.)

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