Health Care Ethics Practice Test

Care ethics centers on relationships and responding to others’ needs within real-life caregiving contexts. It asks how actions affect the people involved in a relationship and emphasizes empathy, attentiveness, and the ongoing duties that arise from caring for someone. Because the focus is on maintaining connection and responding to vulnerability in concrete situations, decisions are guided by what best supports and sustains those relationships rather than by applying fixed rules to every case. This contrasts with rule-based decision making, which relies on universal principles to govern action regardless of situational context. Other approaches, like principalism, prioritizes autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice; narrative ethics centers on patient stories to inform reasoning; and virtue ethics concentrates on developing a morally good character. Ethic of care is the one that foregrounds relationships and care above rigid rules.