Dr. Gloria D.

Lacson Foundation Colleges INC

Castellano San Leonardo Nueva Ecija

Preliminary Examination
BIOETHICS
NAME: ___________________________________ SCORE:________
YEAR:_______________________ DATE:_________
I. IDENTIFICATION: Write your answer on the space provided before each number.

_______________________1. It came from the Greek word “Thanatos”. It is the act of practice of
permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way for
reasons of mercy.
_______________________2. This concerns one’s conduct of behaviour and practice when carrying
out professional work. Such work may include consulting, researching, teaching and writing.
_______________________3. It is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted
reproductive technology have failed.
_______________________4. It refers to the production of one or more living human beings that are
genetically identical to an original human being.
_______________________5. It is a mere desire or inclination of the will towards any good object
known by the intellect.
_______________________6. It is a lack of knowledge which man should have his moral duties.
_______________________7. He contended that ethical rules are universal and that humans can
derived certain consistent principles to guide action.
_______________________8. It is the right of individuals to determine their own fates and their lives
the way they choose, as long as they do not interfere with the rights of others.
_______________________9. It is the application of general principles of ethics to specific problems
of right and wrong in conduct in order to solve or clarify them.
_______________________10.It is a gender-biased term that literally means acting in a fatherly
manner.
_______________________11. This calls for our individual responsibility to take care of our health,
not to kill or put ourselves in danger. Any act that violates this basic inclination is wrong.
_______________________12. It is the study of norms of human acts as guided by human reason.
_______________________13. It is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of the
embryo or fetus from the uterus resulting in or caused of its death.
_______________________14. It is an intentional self-inflicted death.
_______________________15. It is the popular term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing.
It occurs when the heart stops beating in a regular rhythm, a condition called cardiac arrest.
_______________________16. It is also termed as “Do Good”.
_______________________17. It is also known as “Do no Harm”.
_______________________18. It is an ethical thinking that holds the view that self interest of the
performer of the act determines the goodness of the act. Ii is love of oneself.
_______________________19. This states that the human act is ethically good when pleasure is its
result and ethically bad when its end result is pain.
_______________________20. It views human acts as ethically right and wrong in so far as they
conform or not to a legitimate duty or responsibility or to the law laid down by legitimate
authority.
_______________________21. A principle where there are no standards of right and wrong, nor are
there intrinsically unethical or immoral acts. Human acts are good or bad depending on haw an
individual, a group or a society decides them to be so.
_______________________22. It is also known as Love Ethics.
_______________________23. It employs the idea of commensuration. If the good that results from
the act is greater that the harm to be caused, the act is Ethical, even if the act is in violation of
the norms.
_______________________24. It declares that human life comes from God and no individual is the
master of his/her own body.
_______________________25. The study of ethical and moral implications of new biological
discoveries and biomedical advances, as in the fields of genetic engineering and drug research.

TRUE OR FALSE: Write “T” if the statement is correct and “F” if it is wrong.

____1. Euthanasia is the act of practice of permitting the death of people who suffer from
extreme emotional pain and distress and feels unable to cope with their problems.
____2. Invincible ignorance is that which can be removed by ordinary efforts.
____3. Under self preservation, any act of injustice such as subjecting others to indignities,
degradations and inhumanities are against human nature.
____4. According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the source of moral law is REASON itself.
____5. The object of the act is the motive of the act.
____6. In the principle of justice, “When the situation serves love, the act becomes good”.
____7. In ethical relativism, if the good that results from the act is greater than the harm to be
caused, the act is Ethical, even if the act is a violation of norms.
____8. Refraining from harming people is a principle of justice.
____9. In utilitarianism, the act is ethically right when it minimizes pleasure.
____10. Life begins right after conception.

III. ENUMERATION

Three constituents of Human Act Four principles of approach (ELEMENTS)

1. 11.
2. 12.
3. 13.
Two types of ignorance 14.
4. Man’s 3 folds of Inclination
5. 15.
Give at least 5 out of 11 chief passions 16.
6. 17.
7. Three things to be considered in making an
ethical judgement
8. 18.
9. 19.
10. 20.

Essay (10 points)

What is the edge of being a nurse? What makes you different among other professionals?

“NURSES DISPENSE COMFORT AND COMPASSION WITHOUT EVEN A

PRESCRIPTION”
PREPARED BY:
MS. MELANIE J. PANGILINAN, RN