Exam 15: Ethics and Nutrition Practice

The purpose of health promotion is not to enable people to increase control over factors that affect their personal health and to prevent the incidence of chronic health conditions but to reduce anxieties about health issues.

Ethical decision making is not focusing on the best interests of the clients while allowing every stakeholder to share in the decision.

Which of the following is not an ethical dilemma addressed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Code of Ethics?

Susan is a Registered Dietitian who currently lives in Michigan. She is moving to Illinois because of her husband's job change. What should Susan do first related to her career?

Which of the following is responsible for reviewing, promoting, and enforcing the code of ethics for the profession of dietetics?

Services that provide the greatest balance of good over bad, or benefit over harm, are in accordance with the rule of utility.

Which of the following summarized the basic ethical principles identified by the commission in the course of its deliberations? It is a statement of basic ethical principles and guidelines that should assist in resolving the ethical problems that surround conducting research with human subjects.

Dave is learning about the famous study that involved syphilis and African American men who were recruited without informed consent. This study was the:

As long as it is agreed upon prior to the findings being made, it is okay to agree to not release any unfavorable findings at the end of a study.

Which of the following is the formal recognition of professional or technical competence?

"Fairness" refers to which of the following assumptions used to make good moral judgments?

List the seven ways described in the book to make ethical decisions.

An observational study known as the Tuskegee study was a long-term observation of the "natural" course of syphilis in African American men who were recruited into the study without what?

Dietitians employed in a public health setting should utilize both the Code of Ethics for the Profession of Dietetics and the principles of the ethical practice of public health.

Moral obligation is the duty to act in a particular way in response to moral norms.

Which of the following refers to those general judgments that serve as a basic justification for the particular ethical prescriptions and evaluations of human actions?

Lindsay will submit her qualifications to which body to become a Registered Dietitian?

As part of the ethical code: which of the following is obligated to ensure that human health is improved by providing reliable scientific information?

Which of the following is the study of the nature and justification of principles that guide human behaviors and are applied when moral problems arise?

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