NHA quiz - Medical Law and Ethics
Employers are accountable for providing a safe and healthy workplace for employees
by setting and enforcing standards. This environment is achieved by providing training,
outreach, education, and assistance. Which of the following regulatory agencies
oversees this standard?
a. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
b. Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
c. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
d. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - correct answer Occupation
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
A medical assistant witnesses a coworker knowingly commit an unlawful and wrongful
act. The medical assistant should identify this act as which of the following types of
negligence?
a. misfeasance
b. malpractice
c. malfeasance
d. misdemeanor - correct answer malfeasance
A medical assistant sees a coworker take a pain medication from a locked cabinet. The
medical assistant knows that the coworker is a single parent who has a child who was
recently injured. Which of the following types of ethical situation does this problem
create for the medical assistant?
a. ethical dilemma
b. locus of authority issue
c. dilemma of justice
d. ethical distress - correct answer ethical distress
Which of the following moral codes should a medical assistant reference when facing an
ethical dilemma?
a. AMA Code of Ethics
b. Hippocratic Oath
c. Code of Hammurabi
d. Percival's Code - correct answer AMA Code of Ethics
Which of the following is the legal document that states the life saving procedures a
patient authorizes in the even he is incapable of verbalizing his desire for medical
treatment?
a. organ and tissue donation consent
Employers are accountable for providing a safe and healthy workplace for employees
by setting and enforcing standards. This environment is achieved by providing training,
outreach, education, and assistance. Which of the following regulatory agencies
oversees this standard?
a. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
b. Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
c. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
d. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - correct answer Occupation
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
A medical assistant witnesses a coworker knowingly commit an unlawful and wrongful
act. The medical assistant should identify this act as which of the following types of
negligence?
a. misfeasance
b. malpractice
c. malfeasance
d. misdemeanor - correct answer malfeasance
A medical assistant sees a coworker take a pain medication from a locked cabinet. The
medical assistant knows that the coworker is a single parent who has a child who was
recently injured. Which of the following types of ethical situation does this problem
create for the medical assistant?
a. ethical dilemma
b. locus of authority issue
c. dilemma of justice
d. ethical distress - correct answer ethical distress
Which of the following moral codes should a medical assistant reference when facing an
ethical dilemma?
a. AMA Code of Ethics
b. Hippocratic Oath
c. Code of Hammurabi
d. Percival's Code - correct answer AMA Code of Ethics
Which of the following is the legal document that states the life saving procedures a
patient authorizes in the even he is incapable of verbalizing his desire for medical
treatment?
a. organ and tissue donation consent
