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SESSION 10_ Role Fidelity

1. The physician assistant who certifies that an elderly patient with bunions needs a handicapped parking
stickers, when in fact the severity of the problem does not meet the standard for authorizing the sticker.
What moral problem is involved in this situation?

A. Disparagement

B. Gaming the system

C. Gatekeeping

D. None of the above

2. The common problems associated with professional codes are as follows EXCEPT?

A. Incompleteness as to duties

B. Vagueness as to duties and prohibitions

C. Excessive concern with prestige of profession

D. None of the above

3. One looks out for the interest of the profession or of others in a similar practice is known as?

A. Disparagement

B. Gaming the system

C. Gatekeeping

D. Code of conduct
4. Code of conducts and ethics include the following EXCEPT?

A. Serving best interest of patients

B. Ethics of research

C. Incompleteness to duties

D. Appropriate scope of practice

5. What are the ways of a healthcare professional to avoid disparagement?

A. Offer professional courtesy to others

B. Avoid sexual and conflict of interest

C. Look after the welfare of the profession

D. All of the above

6. Which of the following statements about sexual misconduct is INCORRECT?

A. Between practitioners and patients unethical

B. Relationship between practitioner and patient always equal

C. When practitioner feels potential for misunderstanding or mutual feelings of romantic interest, it is
time to end professional relationship

D. None of the above


7. Sheryl is a respiratory therapy technician in a small town in Michigan. The town has a small hospital
and a small durable medical supply company. She is known locally as an entrepreneur ball of fire and has
managed to become both the head of the hospital respiratory care department and the owner of the small
durable medical supply company. What code of ethics and professional conduct best describe the
scenario?

A. Role fidelity

B. Conflict of interest

C. Moral duty

D. Duty to treat

8. What universal principle requires remaining within the scope of legitimate practice. Scope of practice is
clear, and one does not cross the line without willful intention?

A. Justice

B. Autonomy

C. Role Fidelity

D. Veracity

9. The nature substance abuse is such that even fine practitioners begin to experience behavioral
difficulties such as EXCEPT.

A. Behaves naturally

B. Absenteeism

C. Illogical decision making

D. Excessive error
10. An example of conflict of interest where a group of individuals join together to perform a business
venture.

A. Self-referral

B. Business partners

C. Joint -venturing

D. Stark law

SESSION 11_ Role Fidelity Part 2


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

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

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

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?

A. Report the patient for being uncooperative

B. Restraint the patient

C. Respect the patient’s cultural activity

D. None of the above

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

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