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WGU Healthcare Values and Ethics - C426 Ethics is important in that it helps individuals how to be with and accepted ___________, principles, and values and how we live in harmony with the environm... ent and one another. Correct Answer: Boundaries A form of ethics in which an individual's personal view of right and wrong, commonly based on personal life experiences, is often referred to as ________ ethics. Correct Answer: Micro We study ethics to aid us in making ________ judgments, good decisions, and right choices. Correct Answer: Sound ________ is the class of rules held by society to govern the conduct of its individual members. It implies the quality of being in accord with standards of right and good conduct. Correct Answer: Morality A code of ________ generally prescribes standards, states principles expressing responsibilities, and defines the roles expressing duties of professionals to whom they apply Correct Answer: Conduct ________ dilemmas arise when values, rights, duties, and loyalties conflict, and, consequently, not everyone is satisfied with a particular decision. Correct Answer: Moral ________ theories and principles introduce order in the way people think about life. They are the foundations of ethical analysis and provide guidance in the decision-making process. Correct Answer: Ethical Ethical ________ are universal rules of conduct, derived from ethical theories that provide a practical basis for what kinds of actions, intentions, and motives are valued. Correct Answer: Principles The obligation to be fair in the distribution of benefits and risks is referred to as ________. Correct Answer: Justice ________ ethics focuses on the inherent character of a person rather than on the specific actions that he or she performs. Correct Answer: Virtue The relationship between abstract virtues (principles) and ________ (practice) is often difficult to grasp. Correct Answer: Values Values may change as needs change. This is often referred to as ________ ethics. Correct Answer: Situational What are the pillars that build one's moral strength? What sets each person apart? In the final analysis, it is one's virtues and values that build moral ________. Correct Answer: Character "We can learn from ________ how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems." —Gerda Lerner Correct Answer: History In ethics, ________ requires each person to be objective, unbiased, dispassionate, impartial, and consistent with the principles of ethics. Correct Answer: Fairness ________ serves a moral purpose by providing codes of conduct for appropriate behavior through revelations from a divine source. Correct Answer: Religion An ethical ________ arises in situations where a choice must be made between unpleasant alternatives. Correct Answer: Dilemma The National Institutes of Health published guidelines on human ________ following the first kidney transplant, conducted in 1954. Correct Answer: Experimentation The ________ established guidelines for medical doctors conducting biomedical research involving human subjects. Correct Answer: World Medical Association The Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Institute of ________ was established at Georgetown University in 1971 by a generous grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation. Correct Answer: Ethics The New Jersey Supreme Court, in the matter of ________, rendered a unanimous decision providing for the appointment of Joseph Quinlan as personal guardian of his daughter Karen. Correct Answer: Karen Ann Quinlan The ________ was formed to advocate for physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill, mentally competent patient. Correct Answer: Hemlock Society The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 was enacted to ensure that patients are informed of their rights to execute advanced directives and accept or ________ medical care. Correct Answer: Refuse ________ Death with Dignity Act, involving physician-assisted suicide, became a legal medical option for terminally ill patients. Correct Answer: Oregon's An abortion is the ________ of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo before it is considered viable. Correct Answer: Termination The right to abortion raises numerous ________ issues. The conflict between pro-choice and pro-life advocates will continue to pervade America's landscape. The issues are numerous and the emotions run high. Correct Answer: Moral State laws have been developed to ________ HIV-related information. Correct Answer: Protect the confidentiality of ___________ insemination is the process by which sperm is placed into the reproductive tract of a female, for the purpose of impregnating the female by using means other than sexual intercourse. Correct Answer: Artificial Physicians have a clear duty to inform patients about the ________ and benefits of experimental procedures, as well as about the alternatives to experimental procedures. Correct Answer: Risks Sterilization is often accomplished by either ________ for men or a tubal ligation for women. Correct Answer: Vasectomy ________ claims are initiated by the parent and/or child based on the harm suffered as a result of the child's being born. Correct Answer: Wrongful life ________ can identify certain diseases that can be detected in the blood and used to determine whether an individual is at risk for developing a disease [Show More]

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