BIOETHICS QUIZ 3

CAME FROM PS ACLAROS POINTERS

Premarital Sex

Sexual Activity between individuals who are not married to eachother

Can occur in romantic relationships, casual encounters, or cohabiting couples.

Homosexuality

Enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and or sexual attraction toward people of the same sex

Artificial Insemination (AI)

Sperm is introduced into a woman’s reproductive tract without sexual intercourse

Purpose: to achieve pregnancy when natural conception is difficult or impossible

Anxiolytics

midazolam, lorazepam

Gender Identity

A person’s deeply felt sense of being male, female, both, neither or somehwhere along the spectrum, which may or may not match their biological sex at birth.

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

Fertilization of egg and sperm in a lab, followed by implantation into the uterus.

Cloning

Reproducing a human genetically (still widely condemned ethically and legally)

Living Will

A document prepared by a competent adult that provides direction regarding medical care in the event the person becomes unable to make decisions personally.

Antipyretics

Medication for the dying, symptom management for fever.

Analselgic

Administration for drugs to the dying, used to provide pain relief

Therapeutic abortiom

Performed to save the mother’s life

Dysthanasia

Delaying or post poning death beyond its natural time by all means available

Euthanasia

Intentional ending of life to relieve suffering,

Orthothanasia

Allowing death at its natural time practice

Sexual Orientation

A person who is emotionally, romantically, or sexually attracted to

Care for the dying

Refers to the holistic and compassionate support provided to patients who are at the end of life, focusing on not only physical needs but also emotional, social, and spiritual well-being.

Gender Expression

How a person outwardly shows their gender through clothing, behaviour, voice, hairstyle, etc.

Spontaneous abortion (miscarriage)

occurs naturally.

DNR order

If a patient’s heart stops or they stop breathing, CPR will not be performed. It does not mean stopping all care- patients still receive appropriate nursing and medical support.

Advance Care Medical Directives

a written instructions that is recognized under state law and is related to the provision of such care when the individual is incapacitated.

a document in which an individual, in consultation with the physician, relatives, or other personal advisers provides precise instructions for the type of care the client wants or does not want in a number of scnearios.

palliative Care

given for irreversible, fatal, terminal conditions.

Recognizes that the time has come when cure is no longer feasible, so they focous gradually moves to care

The approach is to seek the patient;s best in spiritual needs; in loving skilled, compassionate manner.

Sexuality

about your sexual feelings, thoughts, attractions and behaviours towards other people.

Gamete Donation

Use of donor sperm or eggs.

Antiemetics

Administration of drugs to the dying

symptom management for nausea

Sex Characteristics

Refers to the physical and biological features of a person

Health Care Proxy (Durable power of attorney)

authorization that enables any competent individual to name someone to exercise decision-making authority, under specific circumstances, on the individuals behalf.

Human Reproduction

biological process of producing offspring through sexual union of male and female gametes.

Contraceptions

The intentional prevention of conception through the use of artificial methods, natural methods, or surgical interventions.

Dignity in Death and dying

key principle: to cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always

Surrogacy

A woman carries a child for another person/couple.

Traditional: Surrogates egg is used

Gestational: Embryo from intended parents is implanted