BIOETHICS REVIEWER FROM QUIZZES 1, 2 AND 3

QUIZ 1 – The Preliminaries/ Definition of Terms (20 items)

1. Ethics is significant in ensuring members of health team to be aware of what is right or wrong
in relation to their respective field of practice.
Answer: True
2. To respect a client’s personal space and territoriality, the nurse:
Answer: Explains nursing care and procedures
3. Ethics committees were developed in response to the increasing demand and from the public
for accountability in quality medical care.
Answer: True
4. Emotional responses are sufficient to assist us in making ethical decisions.
Answer: False
5. A healthcare issue often becomes an ethical dilemma because:
Answer: The choices involved do not appear to be clearly right or wrong
6. A branch of moral science concerned with the obligations which a member of a profession
owes the public to his profession and to his clients through the observance of medical codes
and ethical treatises.
Answer: Professional Ethics
7. Stem cell is when cells that can grow into any cell or tissue in the body, divides without limit
to replenish other cells
Answer: True
8. The following are the importance of ethics. Which one should not be considered?
Answer: Gives us the capacity to appraise and critize on something for personal
matters.
9. It is the absence of knowledge in an individual who is supposed to know it.
Answer: Ignorance
10. A staff member observes a nurse assigned to post-operative nursing until reading the chart
of a friend’s grandmother who is a client on that unit. The nurse is not assigned to this client
and does not have a responsibility for this client’s care. The client was just diagnosed with
terminal cancer and the family does not know. The staff member evaluates the action by the
nurse as;
Answer: Inappropriate because the grandmother is not assigned to the nurse
11. A doctor is to cure; a nurse is to care; a lawyer is to defence; a metro aid is to clea the
surroundings.
Answer: Professional Ethics
12. A student nurse asks the nurse “why did my adviser recommend an ethical class for me?”
which of the following is the best response by the nurse?
Answer: “It is the responsibility of nurses to recognize ethical dilemmas in clinical
situation.”
13. You are one of the nurses who volunteered for a mass immunization program of the DOH.
One mother asked if it is really necessary for babies to have immunization since the baby really
cries hard after the injections. As a nurse your correct response would be:
Answer: “You seem like worried. Are there anything that bothers you about
immunization?”
14. Which of the following should the nurse do first when dealing with a couple having sexual
problems after 20 years of marriage?
Answer: Allow the couple to talk about their sexual problem
15. It is the study of ethical issues that emanate from the changes and developments in the life
science technologies:
Answer: Bioethics
16. Medical professionals encounter healthcare dilemmas that are NOT experienced by the
general population.
Answer: True
17. Apart from abortion and euthanasia. Which are examples of bioethical issues? 1. Suicide 2.
Organ Donation 3. Genetic Screening 4. Divorce
Answer: 1, 2, and 3
18. A patient tells you. “My life is not worth living anymore, I want to die.” As a nurse, your best
response would be:
Answer: “There are times when we feel that way, would you like to talk about it and
tell me more?”
19. A 34 y. o mother comes to the emergency room with cramping and vaginal bleeding. Which
of the following statements by the nurse is most appropriate when client is diagnosed with
threatened abortion:
Answer: I’m sorry. This must be difficult for you
20. An intentional taking of the presumably hopeless ill individual:
Answer: Euthanasia

QUIZ 2 – The human person, and Types of Ethical Theories/ Theories (20 items)

1. Conscience is a subjective norm

Answer: True
2. Natural laws are made known or promulgated in terms of writing. It is either promulgate by
God or by man.
Answer: False
3. Which of the following is an Act of Man?
Answer: Day Dreaming
4. Cheska, the nurse from ward VI, is doing her rounds for medication administration. When she
approached the patient from bed 2, the patient exclaimed that he will not take the medication.
Cheska explained the consequence of not taking the medication but in spite of it, the client still
refused the medication. Cheska then agreed, turned away and documented the incident. This is
an example of:
Answer: Deontological Approach
5. Prima facie for Ross means “at first glance” or face value duties
Answer: True
6. A philosopher who anchored on teleological ethics and believed that human actions are
always geared towards certain ends.
Answer: St. Thomas Aquinas
7. Because of law, humans lost track with freedom.
Answer: False
8. Every human being has the intrinsic duty to improve one’s self, says Ross.
Answer: True
9. Human acts include these…
Answer: Thought, speech and action
10. A 16 year old girl got pregnant with her boyfriend who also wasunder age. They were both
still in high school when they had their first contact. The girl stopped schooling and the boy
continued to go to school to finish studies but they are stil together under one roof. When she
delivered the baby, she went back to school and continues while the boy is now looking for a
job. They planned to get married next year. An example of:
Answer:
11. A British Aristotelian scholar and moral philosopher the seven prima facie duties.
Answer: William David Ross
12. Entitative habits pertain to actions.
Answer: False
13. Laws that “bind always, but not at very moment.”
Answer: Affirmative law
14. It is a type of ethical theory which derives moral obligation from what is considered good
and desirable as an end or purpose.
Answer: Teleological Ethics
15. True conscience, judge’s things truly as they are
Answer: True
16. One fails to see wrong even when there is actually wrong
Answer: Lax Conscience
17. You work as a staff nurse at VCMC – annex V on a night shift. One patient inside your ward
is in a depressed or in a sad appearance when you knew he cannot get out of the hospital
because of his large bill. He longed for his family and friends outside and thinks he would
forever live in the hospital. Because of his situation, you let him abscond and ran away
discretely and said you never saw him escape. An example of?
Answer: Teleological Approach
18. You are a nurse at UC medical Center which was assigned at the Nursery department. A
baby boy was left in his crib for more than 3 months now because his parents cannot afford to
take him out due to a large debt left in the hospital after his delivery via caesarean section.
Because of their situation, you allowed the mother to steal the baby and pass through the back
door in order for her to take the baby home. This is an example of:
Answer:
19. A man was found dead near a creek early this morning with a sign on his chest: “I am a
thief! I am a snatcher! I am a bad example!” Almost all people that have seen the scene said
that it was accomplished by a vigilante. This would exemplify:
Answer: Teleological Approach
20. The human person as a moral agent, often talk about cultural relavitism; a sociological/
anthropological thesis that all cultures differ, even the most fundamental ethical matters, and
that all cultures and allcultural practices are equally good and deserving of equal respect.
Answer: True

QUIZ 3 – The calling of the health care provider, and The qualities and responsibilities of a
good health care provider (20 items)

1. Is a system of practical skills that allows an individual to use time in the most effective and
productive way possible?
Answer: Time Management
2. A hospitalization client with severe necrotizing ulcer of the lower leg is scheduled for an
amputation. The client tells the nurse that he will not sign the consent form and he does not
want any surgery or treatment because of religious beliefs about reincarnation. What is the role
of the RN?
Answer: discuss the religious beliefs with the physician
3. Privacy and Confidentiality of all client information is legally protected. In which of the
following situations would the nurse make an exception to this practice?
Answer: when the client threatens self-harm and harm to others
4. Which of the following are qualities of a healthcare provider; 1. Reporting misconduct 2.
Empathy 3. Physical Endurance 4. Personal Limits 5. Follows Professional Standards 6. Problem
Solving Skills
Answer: 2, 3 and 6
5. Nurse Nancy was fired because she did not do her job. This is an example of
Answer: Responsibility
6. The night shift nurse is making rounds. When the nurse enters a client’s room, the client is on
the floor next to the bed. What would be the initial action of the nurse?
Answer: Call the physician
7. What is the best practice for a nurse to avoid law suites?
Answer: All of the above (observe proper documentation, always put the patient’s
rights and welfare first, and practice with the scope of your expertise)
8. All of the following are true about nursing code of ethics except:
Answer: Nurses may decide on their own which is relevant documentation and which
is not
9. To make autonomous decisions and actions, clients must be offered enough information and
has the following criteria:
Answer: Free of internal and external influences
10. What is an informed consent?
Answer: A document attesting that the patient has been informed and understands
the nature of the procedure, the risks, possible outcome and alternatives of the said
procedure
11. Which statement would best explain the role of the nurse when planning care for a
culturally diverse population? The nurse will plan care to:
Answer: Provide care while aware of one’s own bias, focusing on the client’s
individual needs rather than staffs practices
12. What are the ABC’s of healthcare ethics?
Answer: Autonomy, Beneficence, and Confidentiality
13. Understanding the needs of people and learning effective communications is on way to
develop empathy
Answer: True
14. Joey is on time to his shift we could describe him as
Answer: Dependent

15. Accountability belongs to the ambiance of professional ethics

Answer: False
16. Being able to identify with the feelings of our patients
Answer: Empathy
17. Which action shows the most important nursing responsibility in patient care?
Answer: Be able to defend the morality of one’s own action
18. Which is an example of willingness to learn
Answer: Attending a seminar on new research
19. Admitting that you made a medical error to the doctor
Answer: Honesty
20. The center of the meaning of the healthcare profession
Answer: Client