Deck 5: Ethics and Ems

Question 1

____ is a system of guiding principles that govern a person's conduct.

A) Morality
B) Principles
C) Ethics
D) Religion

Answer 1

Ethics

Question 2

The Paramedic should operate solely on protocols and guidelines.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Veracity addresses the right of every person to be treated respectfully, regardless of his or her station in life.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

____ means that no act of harm will be done.

A) Legal bonding
B) Maleficence
C) Beneficence
D) Justice

Question 5

Most Paramedics rely on the concept of ____ to resolve the ethical dilemma of distributing limited medical resources.

A) situational utility
B) limited utility
C) medical utility
D) resource utility

Question 6

A ____ could be loosely defined as something to which a person is entitled based on the society's sense of fair play.

A) social norm
B) requirement
C) right
D) law

Question 7

Financial limitations may affect a community's ability to sustain an EMS system and the individual Paramedic must be involved with these financial concerns.

Question 8

Some Paramedics' personal code of conduct, their morality, is a mere reflection of the culture where they work.

Question 9

____ pertains more specifically to how Paramedics behave in regard to patients.

A) Situational ethics
B) Medical ethics
C) Professional ethics
D) Interpersonal ethics

Question 10

Infidelity leads to mistrust and a general deterioration of veracity that is counterproductive to the therapeutic relationship.

Question 11

An ethics committee typically has the same make-up as an IRB.

Question 12

Current technologies permit a patient to be in a ____, a permanent state of unconsciousness, with an intact brainstem that still produces a heartbeat and breathing.

A) persistent vegetative state
B) permanent steady state
C) stable vegetative state
D) chronic non-responsive state

Question 13

Van Rensselaer Potter, when speaking of ____, was referring to a set of guiding principles for the medical practitioner.

A) bioethics
B) cultural awareness
C) medical standards
D) medical morality

Question 14

Ethical decisions should not change over time.

Question 15

A(n) ____ consists of experts from the fields of theology, sociology, psychology, and medicine.

A) NRB
B) PHS
C) NAEMT
D) IRB

Question 16

____ is the obligation of the physician, and therefore the Paramedic, to keep the promises that are made to the patient.

A) Integrity
B) Fidelity
C) Devotion
D) Veracity

Question 17

A ____ is a rule of conduct that regulates the interaction between people but is not specific to one individual.

A) right
B) requirement
C) law
D) social norm

Question 18

Religion provides people with a description of what is right and what is wrong.

Question 19

In 1964, the Nuremberg code for the ethical conduct in the use of humans for experiments was advanced but was not accepted by many countries.

Question 20

The public has come to expect that its emergency medical services system is its "public health safety net."

Question 21

____________________ is duty-based ethics in which the decision as to whether an action is right or wrong is based on principles and not upon the consequences.

Question 22

____________________ means those unique activities and symbols that make one group's condition different from another's.

Question 23

____________________, the application of the concept of fairness, implies impartiality in the administration of rewards.

Question 24

____________________ implies that the physician's actions are acts of mercy and charity, a good act performed for people at a time of need.

Question 25

Many healthcare organizations have established a(n) ____________________ committee, a committee which can help individuals, including Paramedics, deal with common ethical concerns.