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1) The Nuremberg Tribunal in 1945 caused U.S. medical researchers to:
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2) The 1962 Seattle Artificial Kidney selection committee was:
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3) Henry Beecher's 1966 New England Journal of Medicine article:
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4) The most difficult ethical problem posed by heart tansplantation was:
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5) Philosophers and theologians attracted to the fledgling bioethics movement were drawn by the debates surrounding:
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6) As a result of the 1976 New Jersey Supreme Court decision in Quinlan:
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7) The 1965 Illinois Supreme Court decision in Memorial Hospital vs. Darling:
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8) Utilitarian theory:
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9) The major bioethical principles are:
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10) Constraint of a person's autonomy is permissible when:
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11) The principle of nonmaleficence means that the nurse:
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12) Self-determination is synonymous with:
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13) Respect for autonomy:
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14) A persistent vegetative state is a loss of self-aware cognition in which wake and sleep cycles and other autonomic functions remain intact, and that lasts for at least:
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15) In some ethical dilemmas, the principle of respect for autonomy is in conflict with:
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16) The purpose of a nursing ethics committee is to:
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17) Health insurance companies use the 1974 Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act, known as ERISA, to:
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18)Most hospitals developed ethics committees after:
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19) The first task of a new ethics committee is:
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20) The decisions of an ethics committee's case review:
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21) In any patient decision-making process, the first question to ask is:
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22) Surrogate decision-makers for patients without capacity can use one of two standards for decisions, that of "substitute judgment" or "best interests." In the case of conflict:
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23) Physician-assisted suicide is:
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24) Adequate conseling, informed consent, and confidentiality are important for those contemplating genetic testing because:
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25) The slippery-slope argument as it relates to physician-assisted suicide:
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