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You are passing medications on a mental health unit. One of the patients refuses to take her morning medications stating, That medicine makes me feel weird..
 
  You see the patient's breakfast tray and question the charge nurse on whether it would be wrong for you to crush the medication and mix it into the patient's applesauce without the patient's knowledge. Which ethical principle would you be violating? a. Autonomy c. Fidelity
  b. Beneficence d. Veracity

Question 2

In a health care setting, the issue of informed consent for patients participating in a study post-surgery is considered to be a matter of __________.
 
  a. organizational ethics
  b. clinical ethics
  c. bioethics
  d. research ethics



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Answer to Question 1

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Patients have the right to refuse to take their medications. By mixing the medication with the patient's
applesauce, you would be violating the patient's right to autonomy. Autonomy involves respect for an
individual's right to self-determination and respect for individual liberty.

Answer to Question 2

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a. Incorrect: Organizational ethics generally refers to administrative and management ethical issues.
b. Incorrect: Clinical ethics focuses on issues that arise for patients and health care providers in the provision of health care.
c. Incorrect: Bioethics refers to the ethics of biological and medical research and practice.
d. Correct: Research ethics refers to the policies on ethical review and monitoring of health care studies that are conducted within a health care organization. Some system of review of research proposals is established by organizations to ensure that such issues as consent, considerations of benefits and burdens, and scientific merit are addressed before approval to proceed with research is provided by an organization.




asd123

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Reply 2 on: Jul 7, 2018
Excellent


mcarey591

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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