What is conscience and what role does it play in making decisions?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Conscience is moral judgment that prohibits or opposes the violation of a previously recognized ethical principle. It is the little voice that gnaws away at you, keeps you from sleeping at night, and constantly says, "You know this is not the right thing to do!" Your conscience reminds you of the difference between right and wrong and helps you make ethical decisions.
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A) EMS supervisor administrative reports B) Medical control radio logs C) Prehospital care reports D) The dispatch center log
Which of the following is likely to result in fewer unmet needs and better utilization of services for HIV/AIDS patients?
a. Hospice care b. Home- and community-based services c. Services managed by the Area Agencies on Aging d. Case management
When coding adverse effects, poisoning, underdosing, and toxic effects, which character in the code describes the intent of the circumstance?
A. Seventh B. Fifth C. Sixth D. Fourth
Which of these is TRUE?
A. The Dickey-Warner Amendment of 1996 to the appropriations bill for the National Institutes of Health allowed federal funds to be made available for 60 stem cell lines created from spare human embryos. B. In a case in Tennessee about a divorcing couple who disagreed about what would happen to the embryos they had created and stored, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that the husband did not have to become a father against his will and that the embryos could be destroyed. C. Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) made differentiated human cells revert to primordial, pluripotent states by fusing them with cow eggs, and it then grew a cloned human embryo to five weeks of age before destroying the embryo. D. The Human Embryo Research Panel of 1994 concluded that scientific research could proceed just fine with spare embryos already in existence and no new embryos needed to be created for medical research. E. Father Richard McCormick rejects the argument that because we are unsure when human life begins, we should treat all human life as sacred.