Health Care Ethics

(Bioethics)

Module #11 Student Activity Sheet

Anthony Badili
Name: _________________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ________________________________________ Date: ________________

Lesson Title: Role Fidelity Part 2 Materials:

Learning Targets:
At the end of the module, students will be able to:
1. Explain the difference between a moral duty and a moral
option regarding a duty to treat;
2. List three basic principles that underpin our need to be
sensitive to cultural difference between ourselves and our
patients.; and,
3. Identify common functions of ethics committees
Pen, paper, index card, book, and class List
References:
Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical
Practice Fourth Edition, Raymond S. Edge, J.
Randall Groves

A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW

Brain Teaser: Students will be asked to answer the following questions.

1. A process in which a patient or the patient’s family is introduced to additional health resources in the community in
which the referring practitioner has a financial interest.
Answer: _________________

2. This principle stands for many things including dedication, loyalty, truthfulness, advocacy and fairness to patients.
Nurses are encouraged to keep their commitments, based on their virtue of caring. They should always be in line with
their practice.
Answer: _________________

3. What code of conduct is represented when a healthcare practitioner joins together performing business venture?
Answer: _________________

4. TRUE OR FALSE: It is none of our business if we saw a colleague who always comes to work drunk especially in his or
her night shift duty because that is of personal matter. Why?
Answer: _________________

B. MAIN LESSON

Health Care Provision in a Multicultural Society

 We are a nation of immigrants, a multicultural society, a universal nation, a pluralistic society
 We have competing ideas regarding basic issues such as the meaning of health and illness
 Most health care practitioners in the United States adhere to Western system of health care delivery
 Health care providers often not only ethnocentric but also xenophobic
 Culture shock: communication barrier raised; problem patient or uncommunicative one

ANA Committee on Ethics

Fundamental criteria for moral duty decisions:
 Patient at significant risk of harm, loss, or damage if practitioner does not assist
 Practitioner’s intervention or care directly relevant to preventing harm
 Practitioner’s care will probably prevent harm, loss, or damage to patient
 Benefit the patient will gain outweighs any harm practitioner might incur and does not present more than a minimal
risk to health care provider
 If practitioner answers yes to all four criteria, it is a moral duty to treat under principle of beneficence

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 Health Care Ethics
(Bioethics)

Module #11 Student Activity Sheet

Name: _________________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ________________________________________ Date: ________________

 If all criteria could not be answered with yes, the decision to treat would become a moral option rather than a duty
for the practitioner

Institutional Ethics Committee

 Interdisciplinary body of health care providers, community representatives, and nonmedical professionals
 Address ethical questions within health care institution, especially on care of patients
 Committees play advisory role
 Often multidisciplinary group
 Physicians, nurses, social workers, philosophers, laypersons, lawyers, administrators, religious leaders
 Ethical training increasing in health care programs

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING

You will answer and rationalize this by yourself. This will be recorded as your quiz. One (1) point will be given to correct
answer and another one (1) point for the correct ratio. Superimpositions or erasures in you answer/ratio is not allowed.

1. An interdisciplinary body of health care providers, community representatives, and non-medical professionals who
address ethical questions within the health care institution.
A. American Nurses Association
B. Institutional Ethics Committee
C. Joint Commission
D. None of the above
Answer: ________
B
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
Institutional Ethics Committee is an n interdisciplinary body of health care providers, community
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representatives, and non-medical professionals who address ethical questions within the health care
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institution especially on care of patients

2. An act or course of action that is required by one on the basis of moral position is termed.?
A. Role fidelity
B. Moral duty
C. Moral option
D. Morality
B
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
Moral duty is an act or course of action that is required by one on the basis of moral position
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3. A high-stress situation in which one finds oneself in another culture in which former behavior patterns are ineffective
and one fails to understand the basic cues of social intercourse is termed .
A. Culture shock
B. Ethnocentrism
C. Culture bias
D. Racism
A
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
Culture shock is a high-stress situation in which one finds oneself in another culture in which former behavior
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patterns are ineffective and one fails to understand the basic cues of social intercourse
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4. The patient with a heart condition who is restricted to be. Although he is told to remain in bed and appears to
understand, he is found several times a day standing and gazing out his window. The patient, a devout Muslim who by
faith is required to pray several times a day facing in a particular direction, feels that the religious priority overcomes the
requirement of bedrest. What should you do if you are assigned to this patient?

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Module #11 Student Activity Sheet

Name: _________________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ________________________________________ Date: ________________

A. Report the patient for being uncooperative

B. Restraint the patient
C. Respect the patient’s cultural activity
D. None of the above
ANSWER: C
C
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
I should respect his cultural activity
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5. It is the most devastating Ebola outbreak dates back in?

A. December 2013
B. March 2014
C. August 2015
D. None of the above
B
Answer: ________
March 2014 is the most devastating Ebola outbreak
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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C. LESSON WRAP-UP

AL Activity: Muddiest Point

In today’s session, what was least clear to you?

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