WorksheetsEthics in Healthcare Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
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 agencies
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
An elderly woman has been brought to the Doctor’s office for her appointment by her daughter. The daughter is in the waiting room while you are taking her mother’s medical history. The patient seems a little confused while you are taking her information. She tells you that her family is mean to her. You notice a bruise on her arm. What should you do?
Report what the patient said to authorities
Note the information on the chart
Tell the doctor what the patient has said
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
Reasonable accommodation
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Allow the hiring of a physical therapist whose license has been revoked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 physical therapy aide believes the chief physical therapist is often cool and unfriendly. How should the aide respond to a patient who states that the chief therapist “Isn’t very friendly, is she?”
No, she’s not friendly, but she is a very gifted physical therapist.
Why? What did she do?
Actually, she is a very friendly, positive person.
She is very serious about providing excellent patient care.
Janie 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 violates:
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
Cammie was born and raised in South Africa. Her skin, hair, and bone structure are Caucasian. What is her race?
African
African-American
South African
White
What is the BEST approach for healthcare workers to take when caring for patients from different cultures?
Assimilation
Sensitivity
Acculturation
Ethnocentrism
Helen looks at her patient assignments and sees that one of her patients is named Adolf. She feels a surge of anger toward this patient because her great-grandparents were killed by the Nazis in World War II. Her feelings about this patient are classified as:
Ethnocentrism
Bias
Sensitivity
Prejudice
Darla was caring for a Native American patient whose very long hair became tangled in a knot around the oxygen tubing. In order to discontinue the oxygen as ordered, Darla had to cut a small piece of the patient’s hair. The patient became very upset. Another nurse explained to Darla that cutting hair is forbidden in the patient’s culture. What would be most culturally considerate response by Darla?
Sincerely and deeply apologize to the patient and her family
Explain that cutting the hair was the only option for removing the oxygen
Tell the patient she is sorry she did not understand the needs of the Native American culture
Have the nursing supervisor apologize to the patient
A dietician would put what important alert on the meal plan for a patient of the Hindu faith?
Absolutely NO beef or beef products
Kosher food only
Do NOT serve breakfast or lunch on Saturday
Allow wine with every meal
Healthcare workers should know that patients of what faith would likely refuse a blood transfusion?
Roman Catholic
Islam
Judaism
Jehovah’s Witness
What must a healthcare worker do to achieve patient satisfaction?
Smile and be friendly to the patient
Meet the patient’s expectations
Follow his/her scope of practice
Give the patient information about their treatments
Guidelines for customer service suggest that a healthcare worker should:
Be sympathetic and caring
Engage the patient in personal conversations
Tell the patient if you are short staffed
Create a safe and welcoming environment
Patient satisfaction is an indicator of:
How satisfied the patient is with their physician
The hospital’s rate of infection
The patient’s opinion of the care they received
The care they received while hospitalized
You are an ophthalmic technician in a small optometry office. When checking out, a patient informs you that she is not coming back to this office. What should you do?
Give her the names of three other optometrists in the area
Ask her to wait while you get the Optometrist to talk with her
Ask if something is wrong and would she like to sit down and explain the problem to you
Do nothing because she did not offer to tell you if something was wrong with her care
As a patient care technician you did not properly secure a bed rail causing your patient to fall out of bed and bruise his hip. In completing the incident report form required by the facility, you should:
Describe the incident exactly as it happened
Not say you did not secure the rail
Have your supervisor complete the form
Use good grammar and technical terms
Legal violations and ethical violations
do not differ because violations of both could be subject to criminal penalties
differ because legal violations always result in loss of license, whereas ethical violations always result in suspension from duty
differ because legal violations are dealt with in a court of law, whereas ethical violations are dealt with by licensing agencies or professional organizations
differ because only ethical violations must be reported to licensing agencies
As your patient is discharged, her family gives you a large box of your favorite candy as a thank you for your good care. What is your best course of action?
Write a thank you note as soon as you get home
Call the family at home to again thank them
Share the candy with your coworkers
Politely refuse as you are not allowed to accept tips or gifts
A physical therapist asks the medication nurse if one of her patients, Mrs. Jones, has been taking pain medication, because Mrs. Jones told the therapist that “the nurses won’t give me anything for pain.” If the nurse answers the therapist’s question, it would be:
A violation of patient confidentiality
An ethical violation
An invasion of privacy
Ethical because both team members are involved in the patient’s care
A patient has very specific beliefs about the food she is willing to eat. What has the GREATEST influence on beliefs about eating?
Age
Culture
Race
Socioeconomic status
What behavior by Jennifer, a nursing assistant, would be considered unethical?
Eating food off the patient’s meal tray
Reporting to the charge nurse the patient’s use of profanity
Asking a patient not to call her “Baby”
Calling in sick because she has a cold
