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Hsmu243:Health Care Ethics And Law Question Paper

Hsmu243:Health Care Ethics And Law

Course:Health Management System

Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers

Exam Year:2010

SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SYSTEM MANAGEMENT AND MEDICAL EDUCATION

DURATION: 3 HRS

INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Answer ALL Questions in Section A and TWO in Section B 2. Write your University ID on ALL scripts 3. Use only blue, black ball point or ink

SECTION A

Question 1

Elaborate the following terms as applied in medical ethics

a) Informed consent (4Marks)

b) Assault (4Marks)

c) Battery (4Marks)

d) Negligence (3Marks)

Question 2

With examples, briefly describe the elements of negligence to patients (5Marks)

Question 3

Giving clear examples, differentiate the terms explicit and implicit in the field of medical ethics (10Marks)

Question 5

Describe five circumstances in which battery may be considered to be committed in medical cases ( 5Marks)

Question 5

Describe the terms beneficence and non–maleficence as elaborated by James Childress and Tom Beauchamp in Principle of Biomedical Ethics (1978) (10Marks)

Question 6

Briefly discuss the clinical and legal purposes of consent (5Marks)

SECTION B

Question 7

Discuss any five acts of parliament that are relevant to health practice in Kenya (25Marks)

Question 8

You are the new director of Karen hospital based in Nairobi Kenya. A patient, who is high ranking in the government is admitted with a terminal illness. You are one of the members of team involved in reviewing the patient. Discuss the benefits and dangers that needs to be put into consideration in telling the truth on the diagnosis and prognosis to this patient (25Marks)

Question 9

You have been appointed to a hospital medical ethics committee and charged with the responsibility of coming up with a guidance on capacity of the patients to consent. Discus the situations you will capture in the concept paper where the vulnerable adult does have the capacity to consent and where the vulnerable adult does not have the capacity to consent

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