Chapter 4: Health Care Ethics Committee
| 1: An ________ is a hospital advisory body with multidisciplinary membership from the hospital and the community whose purpose is to facilitate the discussion and resolution of ethical issues and dilemmas arising in the patient care setting. |
| Experimentation committee |
| Institutional review board |
| Ethics committee |
| Chaplains committee |
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| 2: Although ethics committees first emerged in the 1960s in the United States, attention was focused on them in the 1976 landmark ________ case. |
| Roe v. Wade |
| Quinlan |
| Niles |
| Chesapeake |
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| 3: One of the purposes of ethics committee is to: |
| Act as a guardian and substitute its judgment over that of the family |
| Review ethical cases when there is agreement amongst family members on which course of care to follow |
| Make health care decisions for families unable to agree upon what treatment plan should be followed for a comatose family member |
| Lend support by providing guidance to patients, families, and decision-makers |
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| 4: Ethics committees often provide ________ services for patients, families, and caregivers struggling with difficult treatment decisions and end-of-life dilemmas. |
| Consultation |
| Financial |
| Mandated |
| Persuasive |
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| 5: Evaluation of a case consultation should take into consideration the patient's current medical and mental status, diagnosis, and ________. |
| Financial status |
| Prognosis |
| Age |
| Insurance |
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| 6: Making a decision, suggesting a course of action, recommending a path to follow, and making a choice require accepting the fact that there will be elements of ________ in the final decision. |
| Influence |
| Indifference |
| Right and wrong |
| Rhetoric |
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| 7: The logical application of ________ is important in the decision-making process. |
| Reading |
| Speaking |
| Writing |
| Reasoning |
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| 8: ________ reasoning involves bias for or against a person based on one's relationship with that person. |
| Flexible |
| Partial |
| Skillful |
| Rigid |
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| 9: Ethical dilemmas arise when ethical principles and values are in ________. |
| Conflict |
| Harmony |
| Accord |
| Reason |
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| 10: ________ reasoning describes a form of reasoning where the premise is the conclusion and the conclusion is the premise of an argument. My premise is correct, therefore my conclusion is correct—thus the term ________ reasoning. |
| Partial |
| Linear |
| Circular |
| Popular |
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