Ethics Quiz

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Apologies tend to prevent formal complaints.

True
False

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Is it permissible for practitioners to end a professional relationship with a patient solely to pursue a personal relationship with them?

No
Yes

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A central component of the practitioner-patient relationship is the establishment of a relationship of trust. Please complete the statement below:

Confidentiality is central to between practitioners and patients.

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The need for honest and open communication between practitioner and patient means that practitioners may offer opinions about their own moral, personal or religious views.

Agree
Disagree

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Social media is designed to connect people, but new challenges arise in regard to the use of social media. While practitioners may think that their personal and professional profiles are different and separate, often they’re connected. In that light, do the standards expected of doctors change because they are communicating through social media rather than face to face or through other traditional media?

No, the standards expected of doctors do not change because they are communicating through social media.
Yes, the standards expected of doctors do change because they are communicating through social media.

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Who can health practitioners share confidential patient information with?

Other members of the health care team involved in the patient’s care.
Individuals who have the patient’s consent.
Any individual the practitioner deems appropriate.

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Health practitioners sharing information or data for the sake of diagnosis, treatment or education and training through social media must ensure that the recipient of the information is not able to identify the patient from the data disclosed.

Where information or data is shared for the sake of , or and training, the person who receives the information must not be able to identify the patient from the data disclosed.

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The duty to obtain consent may be delegated. The delegating practitioner must take care when selecting the person to obtain the consent. The person to whom the duty is delegated must:

be suitably educated, trained and qualified;
have sufficient knowledge of the proposed investigation or treatment, and understand the risks involved; and
understand, and agree to act, in accordance with the relevant legal and ethical provisions.

The delegating practitioner must take care when selecting the person to obtain the consent. The person to whom the duty is delegated must:
- be suitably , and ;
- have sufficient knowledge of the proposed investigation or treatment, and understand the risks involved; and
- understand, and agree to act, in accordance with the relevant legal and ethical provisions.

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Whether or not a risk is “serious” must take into account whether the “reasonable person” in the patient’s position would regard the risk as serious. Please fill in the missing words below:

A serious risk is one that the in the patient’s position, if warned of the risk, would be likely to attach significance to.

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Practitioners should respect the wishes of any patient who ask not to be given detailed information. Where this situation occurs, the practitioner is placed in a difficult position because, without such information, patients cannot make proper choices about treatment and care. What should the practitioner do in such a situation? (Select the answer which is most correct).

The patient’s refusal should be recorded, as well as the reasons for the refusal, and the steps which the practitioner took to explain the consequences of the failure to be given the necessary information without pressurising the patient against their wishes.
No further information must be provided. However, a note should be made of the patient's refusal.
It is imperative that no further communication should occur because this may be regarded as a breach of the patient's human rights.

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