Module 7: Ethics in Health Care (Exam)

The process of sorting injured people into groups based on need for or likely benefit from immediate medical treatment defines:

A. Theory

B. Right

C. Triage

D. Allocation

C. Triage

The term for a predetermined (usually written) choice made to inform the health care treatment wishes of the patient should he/she become incompetent is:

A. Advance directive

B. Passive suicide

C. No-code order

D. DNI

A. Advance directive

Which distribution allocation group considers who pays for the entire budget of health care services?

A. Micro-allocation

B. Meso-allocation

C. Macro-allocation

D. Medio-allocation

C. Macro-allocation

Which distribution theory views health care as a basic right that is a social good rather than as a financial good?

A. Fairness

B. Rights theory of justice

C. Utilitarian

D. Entitlement

B. Rights theory of justice

All of the following organs can be transplanted except for the:

A. kidney

B. heart

C. lung

D. brain

D. brain

Which of the following are considered to be life-sustaining treatments?

(1) Feeding tube

(2) Ventilator

(3) Blood pressure maintenance drugs

1, 2, and 3

Patient effort is the distribution decision-making criterion based on the patient's:

A. Willingness or ability to comply with medical advice

B. Need for service

C. Ability to pay for service

D. Ability to contribute to society after services

A. Willingness or ability to comply with medical advice

(T/F) Imaging professionals should only study the technology in the area in which they practice and are employed.

False

During a code, a patient fails to respond to all resuscitation efforts. The ECG shows asystole. The patient is not making voluntary respiratory efforts. The physician calls the code and declares the patient dead. Does this patient meet the legal definition of death?

Yes

Which of the following issues in health care may create ethical dilemmas for imaging professionals?

(1) Reproduction assistance technology

(2) Fusion imaging

(3) Stem cell research

1, and 3 only

A no-code order that would prohibit initiation of CPR on a patient who stops breathing is termed:

A. DNR

B. DNI

C. N-CPR

D. Passive euthanasia

A. DNR

Which of the following health care professionals is authorized to make a formal declaration of death?

A. Nurse

B. Physician

C. Imaging technologist

D. All of the above may make a formal declaration of death.

B. Physician

Which term applies to a patient who refuses treatment, despite the fact that doing so will lead to death?

A. Active suicide

B. Passive suicide

C. Active euthanasia

D. Passive euthanasia

B. Passive suicide