Chapter 12: Value-based, person or family centred care

Multiple choice

1. Beneficence is the ethical principle that requires that we ______.

  1. seek to do or produce good for others
  2. put ourselves first
  3. do what we can when we are being paid
  4. look after patients

Answer: A

2. According to Baughan and Smith (2008), caring indicators include ______.

  1. simple acts of kindness
  2. dignity
  3. using and developing skills of empathy by ‘tuning in’ to the patient
  4. all of these

Answer: D

3. Patients who perceived their care as respectful and dignified report the ______.

  1. best health
  2. highest level of satisfaction
  3. most hospital admissions
  4. least hospital admissions

Answer: B

4. Attributes of dignity felt by patients are ______.

  1. self-respect and self-esteem
  2. independence
  3. self-confidence and self-identity
  4. all of these

Answer: D

5. Spiritual care is an important aspect of being ______.

  1. holistic
  2. kind
  3. nice
  4. effective

Answer: A