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PANCE Professionalism Exam Question &Answers 2025
Utilitarianism - Correct Answers ✅✅holds that the most ethical
choice is the one that will produce the greatest amount of benefit for
the most people. It is a consequence-oriented theory that judges the
rightness or wrongness of decisions based on outcomes or predicted
outcomes
Deontology - Correct Answers ✅✅is a duty-oriented ethical theory
that uses rules to distinguish right and wrong. There is no weighing the
costs and benefits of a situation. We have a duty to adhere to rules, i.e.
the Ten Commandments
Virtue ethics - Correct Answers ✅✅says we should act out of
courage, justice, charity and wisdom. It gives us a guide for living life
without giving us specific rules for resolving ethical dilemmas
Principlism - Correct Answers ✅✅is a commonly used ethical
approach in healthcare and biomedical sciences. It emphasizes four key
principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice and
blends these with virtues and practical wisdom
Autonomy - Correct Answers ✅✅is freedom of choice, self-
determination and privacy. Patients have the right to choose
treatments or behaviors so long as they do not intentionally inflict harm
to others
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Nonmaleficence - Correct Answers ✅✅obligates health care
professionals neither to inflict harm nor to impose risks of harm. In
many medical situations, non-maleficence must be balanced with the
principle of beneficence (an action done for the benefit of others)
Beneficence - Correct Answers ✅✅the obligation to benefit others
or to seek their good, potentially demands more than the principle of
nonmaleficence because health professionals must take positive steps
to help their patients, not merely refrain from harmful acts
Justice - Correct Answers ✅✅demands that we treat people fairly
and equitably. Distributive justice is a subset of justice that addresses
balancing the benefits and burdens and the appropriate sharing of
those benefits and burdens
4 components of informed consent - Correct Answers ✅✅1.
Capacity
2. Expected risks, benefits, and alternatives
3. Patient comprehension of relevant information
4. Voluntary consent without coercion or duress
Informed consent - Correct Answers ✅✅- Decision-making
capacity (legally termed competency)
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3 components of informed consent - Correct Answers ✅✅1.
Ability to understand the options
2. Ability to understand the consequences
3. Ability to evaluate personal cost and benefit of each consequence
What the law assumes about the average reasonable person who is not
physically/mentally able to consent to treatment - Correct Answers
✅✅They would consent to treatment in most emergencies to
prevent personal disability or death
2 categories of Advanced Directives - Correct Answers
✅✅instructive and proxy
Instructive AD - Correct Answers ✅✅- Allows for patient
preferences regarding tx
- Living wills (supersede instructions given by a proxy)
- DNAR, DNR, DNI
- No Transfusion
- `Mental Health
Proxy (AD) - Correct Answers ✅✅- Allows for the designation of a
spokesperson
- Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare (DPAHC)
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