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The right of competent people to determine what happens to their bodies is one example of the principle of: |
Autonomy |
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Social, religious, or personal standards of right and wrong are called |
Morals |
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When analyzing an ethical problem, the method in which you ask yourself whether you can vindicate your actions to others is known as the: |
Interpersonal justifiability test |
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You are driving home late one night from a state-to-state enter Hospital transport. You are still in the other state driving home at 0 200 hours when you come upon a single-vehicle MVC on a deserted stretch of the highway. You stop your ambulance, and you and your partner assess the scene and find out there is only one occupant of the vehicle and that the victim is unresponsive. If you initiate care and transport the patient to a hospital without summoning local EMS or fire, your actions could be considered: |
Illegal |
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When analyzing an ethical problem, the method in which you ask yourself whether you would be willing to undergo a procedure or action if you were in the patient's place is known as the: |
Impartiality test |
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The idea that each person must decide how to behave and that whatever decision that person makes is acceptable is known as |
Ethical relativism |
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The obligation of a paramedic to treat all patients fairly is an example of the principle of |
Justice |
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Rules or standards that govern the conduct of members of a particular group or profession are called: |
Ethics |
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If you receive a copy of a valid DNR order after you have begun resuscitation attempts, you are ethically obligated to: |
Cease resuscitation efforts |
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State laws requiring the reporting of births, deaths, certain infectious diseases, and child and elder abuse and neglect may require the paramedic to breach the obligation to protect the patients: |
Confidentiality |
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Your patient is a 49 year old woman with terminal cancer. She has a DNR order, but her family has called nine-one-one because the patient is having difficulty breathing and seems to be very uncomfortable. Making the patient as comfortable as possible demonstrates the ethical principle of: |
Beneficence |
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Your paramedic partner is telling you about a situation in which he resuscitated a patient with a DNR, even though the DNR was present and available to him at the time he began resuscitation. He tells you he is Justified because the patient survive for a year after the incident and suffered no ill-effects from the cardiac arrest or the resuscitation efforts. Which of the following best describes the ethical approach used by your partner? |
Consequentialism |
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Enforced racial segregation in the United States before the 1960s can best be described as: |
Legal, but unethical. |
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You are on the scene where an 80 year old woman is unresponsive and has shallow, snoring respiration's. The patient's husband wants you to do nothing for the patient, but her daughter is crying and pleading with you to do something to help her mother. The patient lacks a DNR. The husband insist that his wife would not want to be kept Alive by machines. Which of the following is the most ethical course of action? |
Explain to the husband that you do not yet know what is wrong with his wife, that it may be something readily treatable, and that without a written order from her position you cannot withhold treatment. |
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When analyzing an ethical problem, the method in which you ask whether you would want an action performed in all relevantly similar circumstances is known as the: |
Universalizability test |
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The idea that each person must decide how to behave and that whatever decision that person makes is acceptable is known as: |
Ethical relativism |
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Which of the following is not typically addressed in a code of ethics? |
Fitness requirements |
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The four fundamental principles or values used to resolve problems and bioethics today include all of the following except: |
Egalitarianism |
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Which of the following questions should guide the paramedic and ethical decision-making? |
"What is in the patient's best interest?" |
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When students are working with patients under a preceptor and an EMS system, at what point should the preceptor inform the patients that their care, or part of it, is being performed by a student? |
The patient should be informed before procedures are performed, and the student should be allowed to proceed only with the patient's consent |
