RCP 110. Unit 2. Chapter 5

Create an illustration depicting a respiratory therapist contemplating ethical decisions in a hospital setting, highlighting elements like patient care, ethical dilemmas, and healthcare ethics.

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Brittany must choose between two patients. She pauses, all alone in a gigantic dimly lit hospital, and considers what a good RT would do and decides to follow that decision. Which philosophical viewpoint did she use?

A Respiratory Therapist can view the 'Respiratory Care ________________' for their state to learn about their scope of practice, board procedures, and credentialing details.

Lying to a patient or with-holding information from them with positive intentions is _____________ and is called _________________.

Sometimes necessary; benevolent deception

Sometimes necessary; nonmaleficence

Illegal and unethical; benevolent deception

Illegal and unethical; nonmaleficence

Choose the four elements of negligence.

The practitioner owes a duty to the hospital.

The practitioner breaches that duty.

The practitioner owes a duty to their patient.

The breach of duty was the cause of excellent healthcare.

Health and healing came to the patient.

There are no breaches of duty in healthcare.

Damage or harm came to the patient.

The breach of duty was the cause of damages.

The practitioner follows all rules, protocols, and performs their duties well.

A Respiratory Therapist at work would be wise to:

Use social media frequently to document their success as a health professional

Make videos with their patients

Talk in the halls about how frustrating their patients are

Complain loudly about how stinky their patient is

Talk about how drunk they got the night before

Always maintain confidentiality unless they are confident doing so will result in more harm than good

Double effects is a concept that suggests:

Harming patients is always okay, as long as you use benevolent deception

Using double the therapeutic levels of medication is sometimes necessary

Sometimes unintended results occur when treating patients and this is unavoidable in certain circumstances

All treatments have two effects, both of which are equally important to understand

Philosophy may be defined by the love of _____________ and the pursuit of ______________ concerning humankind, nature, and reality.

Respiratory Therapists today face ethical dilemmas such as:

A Code of Ethics is:

A) An essential part of any profession that has to regulate itself.

B) Important for maintaining the safety and health of the public.

C) A set of government views that guide Respiratory Therapists.

A and B only

All of the above

Respiratory Therapists are advised to use the RT Code of Ethics when faced with an ethical dilemma.

True

False

When making an ethical decision, Respiratory Therapists should identify what?

The problem or issue.

The individuals involved and who should ultimately make the decision.

Relevant ethical principles.

Their own role in the situation.

All of the above.

Once the identification phase is over during an ethical-decision-making-situation, the Respiratory Therapist should:

Consider alternative solutions and potential consequences.

Make a final decision.

Follow through with the decision.

Observe the consequences of the decision.

All of the above.

Civil Law can be best described as protecting whom?

In Public Law, the accuser is the state and the person prosecuted is the defendant, what are the two major divisions of Public Law?

Negligence can be best described as occurring when a Health Professional does what?

Fails to perform ones duties competently.

Ignores foreseeable consequences.

Does not perform their job in a way that would be expected of them by their peers.

Performs an unnecessary (or fails to perform a necessary) act that harms or could harm someone.

All of the Above

Other than Respiratory Care Practitioner, what does RCP stand for?

Among other reasons, ethical Dilemmas occur when there are:

Two equally desirable choices

Two equally undesirable choices

In an ironic twist, all the choices here are correct.

HIPPA was created in the year ______ and aims to mainly accomplish what?

1984; It is the big brother who sees all

1999; Protect lawyers from retaliation during hospital court cases

1970; Ensure better care for hospital patients.

1996; Guarantee you will watch training videos for the rest of your life

1970; Generate protocols for Respiratory Therapists to follow in Hospitals Nationwide.

1996; Aid in the areas of HCP-patient confidentiality and healthcare. outcomes

A living will may be best described as:

When a patient states their healthcare preferences in writing.

When a patient orally gives another person permission to make decisions for them.

When a patient wants to be on the DNR list.

When a patient has a strong will to survive anything and everything.

The best method of communicating ones wishes if unforeseen events were to occur.

Unethical and/or unlawful acts of Respiratory Therapists include:

Stealing from a patient who is in a coma.

Requesting or accepting money in exchange for better treatment.

Using a patient's prescription medication while no one is looking.

Seeing a peer commit an illegal act while at work and not reporting it.

All of the above.

Respiratory Therapist licensure adds a level of protection against lawsuits and lowers the consequences in the event they break the law.

False, licensure adds a level of liability and responsibility.

True, Respiratory Therapists' license to practice protects them.

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