Medical Law and Ethics

Employers are accountable for providing a safe and healthy workplace for employees by setting and enforcing standards. This environment is acheived by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. Which regulatory agency oversees this standard?

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

A medical assistant witnesses a coworker knowingly commit an unlawful and wrongful act. The medical assistant should identify this act as which of the following types of negligence?

• Misfeasance

• Malpractice

• Malfeasance

• Misdemeanor

A medical assistant sees a coworker take a pain medication from a locked cabinet. The medical assistant knows that the coworker is a single parent with a child who was recently injured. Which of the following situations does this problem create for the medical assistant?

• Ethical dilemma

• An authority issue

• Dilemma of justice

• Ethical distress

Which of the following moral codes should a medical assistant reference when facing an ethical dilemma?

• AMA Code of Ethics

• Hippocratic Oatch

• Code of Hammurabi

• Pervical's Code

Which of the following is the legal document that states the life saving procedures a patient authorizes in the event he is incapable of verbalizing his desire for medical treatment?

• Organ and tissue donation consent

• Living Will

• Durable power of attorney for health care

• Do-not-resuscitate order

Once advance directives are in place, they can be updated at which of the following times?

• Never

• Any time

• Every 10 years

• Annually

When designating a medical power of attorney, which of the following people is an acceptable choice for a health care proxy?

• Patient's provider

• Executor of the patient's will

• Member of the patient's faith community

• Patient's attorney

A patient expresses to a medical assistant that he would like to desgnate his daughter as his health care proxy. Which of the following is the minimum age to be eligible as a health care proxy.

• 14

• 16

• 21

• 18

Which of the following provides instructions for an emergency medical technician to follow when transporting an elderly or critically ill patient?

• Medical Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)

• Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

• Patient Self-Determination Act

• Patient's Bill of Rights

A medical assistant is assisting a provider with a gynecological examination. The patient says, "my religious beliefs do not allow me to use contraception". The medical assistant should expect the provider to make which of the following statements.

• "You have the right to make choices regarding your health"

• "You should reconsider your stance on contraception"

• "I am your provider, so you need to listen to my advice"

• "I am very concerned about the potential consequences to your health"