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Question 1

A patient tests positive for tuberculosis. You are required to break patient confidentiality to protect the public welfare.

Select one:

a. True

b. False

Question 2

Frank Churchill has been admitted to the hospital after suffering extensive injuries in a motor vehicle accident. He is unconscious when he is brought into the Emergency Room. The Emergency Room surgeons have determined that Churchill needs immediate surgery to repair extensive external and internal traumatic injuries to the head and abdomen, any of which would be life-threatening if untreated, and all of which are potentially correctable with surgery. His immediate needs, in addition to surgery, include mechanical ventilation and a blood transfusion. The exact extent of his brain injuries, as well as the duration of any impairment that might result, are unknown at this early time. All physicians involved in Frank's care agree that the standard of care, in the absence of a competent refusal to consent, is immediate intubation, transfusion, and surgery. Jane Fairfax, Frank’s girlfriend, was brought into the hospital at the same time. She is conscious, alert, and competent. Jane insists (a) that Frank not be intubated or transfused and that (b) major surgery not be performed on the grounds that both types of intervention would oppose his "living will." If the physicians proceed with the surgery on Frank, they would be adhering to which of the following?

Select one:

a. Frank's advance directive

b. Frank's living will

c. Implied consent

d. Express consent

Question 3

Becky and Charlie are married. Becky does not produce viable eggs. Becky consents to an in vitro fertilization process in which a donor egg is combined with sperm from Charlie, and the resulting embryo is implanted in Becky’s uterus. On these facts, the Becky is NOT the

Select one:

a. Intentional mother.

b. Genetic mother.

c. Gestational mother.

d. Nurturing mother.

Question 4

The hospital committee concerned with the review, revision, and implementation of research protocols which address implications for human research and ethical issues of research in general is the

Select one:

a. Institutional Research Council.

b. Institutional Ethics Board.

c. Hospital Board of Trustees.

d. Institutional Review Board.

Answer 1

1.(a) he has to do it fir public welfare

2.(a) patient is not conscious so both amtypes of consent can not be given so they are ruled out, living will is already ruled out from question so we are left with option a

3.(b) since we are not using becky's eggs so she can not be genetic mother of child.

4.(b) A research ethics committee is a group of people appointed to review research proposals to assess formally if the research is ethical.