Chapter 12: Value-based, person or family centred care
Multiple choice
1. Beneficence is the ethical principle that requires that we ______.
- seek to do or produce good for others
- put ourselves first
- do what we can when we are being paid
- look after patients
2. According to Baughan and Smith (2008), caring indicators include ______.
- simple acts of kindness
- dignity
- using and developing skills of empathy by ‘tuning in’ to the patient
- all of these
3. Patients who perceived their care as respectful and dignified report the ______.
- best health
- highest level of satisfaction
- most hospital admissions
- least hospital admissions
4. Attributes of dignity felt by patients are ______.
- self-respect and self-esteem
- independence
- self-confidence and self-identity
- all of these
5. Spiritual care is an important aspect of being ______.
- holistic
- kind
- nice
- effective