Mindanao Medical Foundation College

P. Villanueva St., Agdao, Davao City

Tel. No, (082)221-62-25
General Education Department
2nd Semester 2020-2021

ETHICS
2nd Preliminary EXAM
5:30=8:30 Monday

Name: ________________________Course/Yr: _______Score: ______

Prepared by: Mrs. M.A. Naranjo Permit No.: ______Date : ______

TEST I. Selection Type. Select what type of circumstance written below is asked from the following cases by
writing the letter on the space provided before each number(2 pts each)

A. The circumstance of person performing the act E. The circumstance of quantity or quality of the act
B. The circumstance of place where the act is performed F. The circumstance of the motive of the agent
C. The circumstance of manner the act is performed G. The circumstance of means to which is used and
D. The circumstance of time when an act is done employed in the performance of the act

___1. Roy Allen, a second year optometry student cuts Ethics class to meet and engage in drinking spree activity with his friends
in a bar.

___2. 500 cc of blood is transfused into a patient who is badly in need of it. However, the said amount olf blood is stolen from a
blood bank.

___3. Optometry interns are very noisy, loudly chatting and gossiping about their clinical instructor who is, at the moment
supervising a certain intern in attending a patient. They are doing the loud gossiping at the hospital.

___4. A student who gets pregnant is afraid that she may stop going to school because of her condition. The went to a doctor for
Abortion.

___5. A medical doctor does the act of killing of the baby inside the womb of a mother.

___6. A certain medication is mistakenly and carelessly given to a patient who is not supposed to take it. Consequently the
patient suffers the evil effect of the malpractice.

___7. The staff nurse who is assigned to give an oral medication to a patient uncaringly demanded the patient to get up from bed
instantly.

TEST II. True or False. Write True if the statement is true and False if otherwise (10 pts.)

1. The motive of the agent is the primary determinant of morality.

2. By looking at the act, one can say if it is good or evil.
3. The motive of doer can make good act evil.
4. In Invincible Ignorance, the agent is capable to do something to get rid of his ignorance after a
reasonably sufficient effort has been exerted.
5. Antecedent concupiscence impairs both knowledge and freedom therefore lessens one’s liability.
6. A good act act which is done for an evil motive becomes evil.
7. An evil which is done for a good motive becomes good act.
8. Circumstances can make an indiffrent act evil.
9. A human act inorder to be morally good must be perfect according to the three elements:objevt, end
and circumstances.
10. Habit does not destroy voluntariness.

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TEST III. CASE ANALYSIS. Resolve the following: (5 pts each)

A student nurse suspects that her clinical instructor inadvertently gives her a wrong
instruction as to the specific doctor’s order that is to be carried out to a certain patient. However,
she does not bother to validate it with her C.I. and to refer to the patient’s chart as she is afraid of
being scolded and branded for being wiser than the C.I. She just consoles herself: “Anyway,
she’s my C.I. She has to know more than I do for all I care.” She does what her C.I. tells her
without knowing the truth about the doctor’s order. Consequently, the patient receives wrong
medication and suffers anaphylactic shock from it.

A. Is the student-nurse acting with fear or acting out of fear?

B. Is the student-nurse justified for not telling her C.I. about her doubt? Why?

C. What kind of ignorance does the C.I. have as to what the doctor’s order really is? Qualify
your answer.

D. If you were the student-nurse, what would you do in the very first place?