PANCE Professionalism Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Utilitarianism - Correct Answer ✅ 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 Answer ✅ 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 Answer ✅ 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 Answer ✅ 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
,PANCE Professionalism Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Autonomy - Correct Answer ✅ 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
Nonmaleficence - Correct Answer ✅ 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 Answer ✅ 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 Answer ✅ 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
3 components of informed consent - Correct Answer ✅ 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 Answer ✅ They would consent to treatment in
most emergencies to prevent personal disability or death
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