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Working in end-of-life care, social workers can listen to their patients' stories and then share the values imbedded within the patient's stories with the other members of the healthcare team in order to promote better understanding of the patient's goals of care.

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The ________________________________ perspective proposes that decisions include consideration and promotion of the relationship needs of all the parties involved.

A) Deontological
B) Consequentialist
C) Virtue ethics
D) Ethics of care

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A treatment that merely preserves permanent unconsciousness and cannot end dependence on intensive medical care is ___________________________.

The four elements of the provision of healthcare include:

Pam is a social worker who has been working in a hospital. One of her patients, Julie, asks Pam if she will be her Facebook "friend." Pam says she cannot because this is against her professional code of ethics. Julie gets very emotional and states, "Well, I think you just don't really care about me. After all, I am Facebook 'friends' with several of the nurses." What should Pam do?

The value of integrity dictates social workers behave in a trustworthy manner. This includes having respect for the ethical standards in organizational practice settings.

Carol works in a hospital with an inpatient-only palliative care program. During a dinner with a colleague, Brenda, Carol discovers that the palliative care physician has been making home visits for Brenda's patients. Carol is concerned when she hears about this, but Brenda insists that the physician is "doing the right thing." It is true the patients being seen at home are very ill and will benefit enormously from this care. Which principle of bioethics applies in this case?

In the _____________________________________ perspective, ethical rules are self-evident and should be upheld under all circumstances.

An _________________________________ is a multidisciplinary group of healthcare professionals within a healthcare institution that has been specifically established to address the ethical dilemmas that occur within the institution.

There can be more than one morally accepted outcome to an ethical dilemma.

Referrals related to concerns about _______________________ represent some of the most vexing and time-consuming challenges faced by ethics committees.

Social workers identified _________________________ as their chief resource in dealing with ethical dilemmas.

"First do no harm" is consistent with the principle of _____________________________.

The degree to which social workers in hospitals are involved in ethical deliberations with patients and professionals is called ____________________________.

A treatment that has not been effective in the last 100 cases but that may be effective on the 101st attempt is ____________________________________.

Sue is a social worker whose client Mary, an 82-year-old woman, has been hospitalized following a fall at home. Mary has been living independently and wants to return home. Mary's children are very concerned that it is no longer safe for Mary to continue to live independently in her own home. Sue shares some of the same concern as Mary's family members, but Mary is alert and oriented and cognitively able to understand the risks of returning home. The family has requested a meeting without the patient present. Which of Beauchamp and Childress's principles of bioethics would help guide Sue as she decides what to do?

When a patient is dying, social workers can act as ______________________________ to assist the patient and their family in understanding the natural course of their illness, the process of dying, and the benefits and risks of continued medical intervention.

According to Dolgoff, Lowenberg, and Harrington's hierarchy-of-decision-making model, _______________________ is the highest principle.

Futility is a social construct.

The ______________________________ perspective holds that ethical rules are self-evident and should be upheld in any circumstances.