Intro to Ethics

What does ethical principlism do for the researcher?

• Guides the researcher with laws and exact ways to perform any research

• Allows the researcher to sit in front of a board to complete the research in an exact way

• Provides guidelines to make justified and moral decisions related to the research with human subjects.

• Provides specific nonlinear view of the research on hand

Obtaining informed consent for a medical procedure is an example of what?

• Respect for autonomy

• Autonomy

• Beneficience

• Unethical behavior

Which is an example of non maleficence?

• Neglecting home care needs of a patient?

• Preforming a treatment that will inflict harm on a patient

• Withholding a treatment that will inflict harm on a patient

• Preforming extraordinary care measures on a patient without considering the actual implications

Preparing a community to have the same distribution of benefits and burdens, rights and opportunities is an example of what?

• Justice

• Distributive justice

• Social Justice

• Beneficence

Disagreeing with a policy in the healthcare setting can lead to which of the following?

• Moral disagreement

• Moral suffering

• Unethical decision making

• Ethical anxiety

Ethical Dilemmas:

• The conclusion has one specific answer.

• The conclusion has 2 sides.

• There is one competing side and guide.

• It is a situation +/or fact pattern that has one specific clear resolution.

Descriptive Ethics is considered:

• Concerned with defined morality.

• Care of the whole person.

• Frequently based in research; describes what/how people think about morality.

• Attempt to describe and apply particular moralities.

Socrates's method of teaching and questioning is one of the oldest forms of critical thinking

• True

• False