1. Healthcare professionals and ethicists universally agree that beneficence is the most important among the principles of bioethics.
True
False
2. Sarah Breier-Mackie identifies patient advocacy and compassion as cornerstone values of nursing ethics.
True
False
3, What does Sarah Breier-Mackie mean by "ever-presence"?
The collaboration between doctors and nurses means there is always a healthcare professional at the patient's bedside.
A patient actually knows more about their own condition than any healthcare professional could, because they are always living with their body and its ailments.
Unlike doctors, whose interactions with patients are typically limited to short spurts, nurses' bedside care of patients is more sustained and personal.
Unlike nurses, who get to clock out at the end of each shift, doctors are expected to always be available to meet their patients' needs.
4. How does the Americans with Disabilities Act define disability?
Disability consists of blindness, deafness, or a combination of the two.
There is no objective definition of disability, but we all know it when we see it.
Disability is a subjective experience of feeling that one's body has limitations.
Disability is an impairment that limits one's ability to perform major life activities.
5. How does Havi Carel characterize illness?
When one's body feels ill, the lived body feels more important than the biological body.
Health and illness are shared delusions.
When one's body feels ill, there is a mismatch between one's biological body and one's lived body.
When one's body feels ill, the biological body feels more important than the lived body.