Exam 15: Ethics and Nutrition Practice

A group of students were preparing to take the Registered Dietitian exam. Their internship director had access to the questions and used these questions to prepare her students for the exam, but she was required to keep these questions confidential. This is an example of what?

Which of the following includes a moral duty to weigh and balance benefits against harms to increase benefits and reduce the occurrence of harm?

Jordan knows that all of the following are actions that can be taken if a practitioner is found to violate the Code of Ethics except:

A Human subject is defined as a living individual about whom an investigator is conducting research to obtain data through intervention or interaction with the individual or to obtain identifiable private information.

Credentialing is the formal recognition of professional or technical competence.

Research is defined as a systematic investigation, including research, development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.

List the four assumptions that can be used when making ethical decisions.

Sarah understands that although she knows that her client needs to lose weight, her client has to choose to do so. The freedom for an individual to choose which action to take is called what?

The customary way of acting is the definition of:

Jeanine is a community nutritionist who strives to always make good moral judgments by using four main assumptions. These include:

When an individual agrees to a treatment plan after receiving sufficient information concerning the proposal, its incumbent risks, and the acceptable alternatives, it is said that they have received which of the following?

Which of the following principles states that people should be treated equally?

Dissemination of the research findings to the public, media, scientific meetings, and interviews with journalists, is a potential area for which ethical problem? This occurs because the interests of the agencies paying for the research may conflict with the actual outcomes of the research and how the results are presented.

The word ethics is derived from the Latin word mosmoris.

The following describes which ethical decision-making variable? "The community nutritionist should clarify the issue (for example, values, conflicts, and matters of principles) and gather all the relevant data (facts, norms, principles, rules, and interpretations of the rules)."