NOCTI Practice

Hippocrates wrote standards for the ethical behavior of physicians 2500 years ago in:

• Rome

• Florence

• Venice

• Greece

Most codes of ethics that govern the behavior of healthcare professions are written by:

• licensing agenices

• state boards of health

• professional organizations

• health science textbook companies

What statement about euthanasia and healthcare professionals is true?

• The decision to employ methods of euthanasia is exclusively the physician's.

• Many healthcare professionals feel euthanasia is contrary to their professional ethics.

• Healthcare workers should always follow their ethical beliefs, regardless of what the physician orders or the patient requests.

• Euthanasia is always illegal and unethical.

A grief-stricken family in the ER has just been notified of the death of their child who was hit by a car. What should the physician ask regarding organ transplantation?

• Do not ask since the family is in shock and cannot make an informed decision.

• Wait for five or six hours until the family has had time to accept their loss and then ask about organ donation.

• Immediately ask the family for permission to donate the child's organs for transplantation.

• Start the process of removing organs, and hope the family will give the permission when asked.

A couple wishes to have their own biological child, but the wife had a hysterectomy for medical reasons when she was 25 years old. What option would give them the best hope for having a child?

• genetic counseling and fertility drugs

• artificial insemination with sperm from a sperm bank

• implantation of five to ten frozen embryos

• IVF of their own egg and sperm with implantation in a surrogate

A nursing assistant refuses a request by the charge nurse to take a pain pill to a patient. The assistant believes that giving the pain medication would be a violation of his/her:

• scope of practice

• religious beliefs

• resonable accomodation

• rights under OSHA rules

What MOST LIKELY would be a task of a hospital ethics committee?

• approve discontinuation of life support on a terminally ill patient

• allow the hiring of physical therapist whose license has been revoked

• termination of an employee who has frequent absences

• censure a physician who is dating a medical laboratory technician

A psychiatrist recommends a 17 year-old be admitted to a psychiatric facility to treat his depression. The parents refuse. Two weeks later, the teen commits suicide. The psychiatrist has MOST likely violated:

• ethical standards

• legal standards

• both ethical and legal standards

• neither ethical or legal standards

Janine is frequently late for work. Even when she arrives on time, she takes ten minutes to finish applying her make-up and putting her hair up before beginning work. Her behavior MOST LIKELY violated:

• ethical standards

• legal standards

• both ethical and legal standards

• neither ethical nor legal standards

Avi is born in Nigeria to African parents and is adopted at age 6 months by Spanish parents. He grows up in Spain as a Roman Catholic. If Avi identifies himself as a Spaniard, he is describing his:

• race

• ethnicity

• culture

• religion