Exam 4: Legal and Ethical Principles

The health care worker's code of ethics includes all of the following except:

The most common incidences of liability for the health care worker result from:

Patient confidentiality is both an ethical and a legal matter.What is the exception to respecting a patient's right to privacy?

A ____________________ is written by a doctor to indicate that the patient is not to be resuscitated.

Explain the two types of advance directives that take precedence when a patient loses the ability to make his or her own decisions.

Failure to execute the care that a reasonable person exercises is known as:

Explain the reasoning behind the DNR order.How might the DNR order infringe upon the Hippocratic oath?

Advance directives and ____________________ are legal documents that allow patients to express their wishes about their health care and treatment.

Limits of practice are established by:

Delineate the pros and cons of the Internet and its relationship to health care.

Define ethical codes and list the professions that have developed a set of governing ethical codes.

An action that does not represent ideal behavior but may not be illegal is called:

It is considered ____________________ to perform skills that are beyond the level of a health care worker's education and training.

Failure of professional skill or learning that results in injury, loss, or damage is called:

Hospitals and other health care facilities may have a(n) ______________________________ that meets to oversee the agency's guidelines for ethical conduct.

Explain duty of care as it applies to the health care worker.

Explain the concept of reasonable care as it applies to the health care worker.

Types of advance directives include:

What is the purpose of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?