Ethics Quiz Flashcards
The ethic of care was developed in the mid-1980s and early 1990s in response to the technical advances in health care science and what other desire of the nursing profession?
Differentiate nursing practice from medical practice The view of caring and the ethic of care that emerged in the mid-1980s and early 1990s was a response to the technological advances in health care science and the desire of nurses to differentiate nursing practice from medical practice. The ethic of care is a core value of community health nursing. It is closely interrelated with feminist ethics.
Which theoretical framework refers to the fulfillment of each individual’s needs as well as the individual’s opportunity to reach full potential as a human?
Equity
What developed as a response to the technological advances in health care science?
Ethic of care Nurses have written about caring as the essence of the moral ideal of nursing. This view was a response to the technological advances in health care science and the desire of nurses to differentiate nursing practice from medical practice. The ethic of care is a core value of community health nursing.
One step of the ethical decision-making framework is to place an ethical issue or dilemma within a meaningful context. What is the rationale for this step?
Multiple factors affect the formulation and justification of ethical issues and dilemmas. Historical, sociological, cultural, psychological, economic, political, communal, environmental, and demographic contexts affect the way that ethical issues and dilemmas are formulated and justified.
Community health nurses (CHNs) are required to uphold the values identified in the Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses and must follow the Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice. If the code and standards are not followed, what would likely result?
Moral distress
While moral justification emphasizes theories or principles, what is emphasized through the practical reasoning of virtue ethics?
Character development The goal of virtue ethics, one of the oldest ethical theories, is to enable persons to flourish as human beings. According to Aristotle, virtues are acquired, excellent traits of character that dispose humans to act in accord with their natural good. Examples of virtue ethics include benevolence, compassion, discernment, trustworthiness, integrity, and conscientiousness.
The right to receive certain social goods that are necessary to satisfy basic needs, such as adequate food, housing, education, and police protection, is supported by which theory?
Egalitarianism is the view that everyone is entitled to equal rights and equal treatment in society. Egalitarians are supportive of welfare rights—that is, the right to receive certain social goods necessary to satisfy basic needs.
What approach is based on the premise that people should always be treated as ends in themselves, and never as mere means to the ends of others?
Deontology When a CHN concludes that the action is right or wrong in itself, regardless of the amount of good that might come from it, this position is known as
Which term refers to shared and generational societal norms about what constitutes right or wrong conduct?
Morals
Which of the following statements is true regarding an ethical decision-making process?
It considers ethical principles, client values and abilities, and professional obligations. Ethical decision making is that component of ethics that focuses on the process of how ethical decisions are made. It involves making decisions in an orderly process that considers ethical principles, client values and abilities, and professional obligations, and it occurs when health care providers must make decisions about ethical issues and ethical dilemmas.
In applying Bateman’s practical framework for effective advocacy, which ethical principle empowers the client (groups or communities) to make knowledgeable decisions?
Keep the client properly informed. Bateman’s practical framework for advocacy (2000) identifies six ethical principles for effective advocacy: (1) act in the client’s best interest; (2) act in accordance with the client’s wishes and instructions; (3) keep the client properly informed; (4) carry out instructions with diligence and competence; (5) act impartially and offer frank, independent advice; and (6) maintain client confidentiality. Following the third principle (“Keep the client properly informed”) empowers the client to make knowledgeable decisions.
The focus on individual rights leads to complications in the interpretation of which of the following?
Social justice Giving priority to individual rights and dignity of the individual should never (or rarely) be sacrificed to the interests of the larger society. The focus on individual rights leads to complications in interpretation of social justice.
The Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice lists advocacy as part of the CHN’s role. In what way are CHNs carrying out their role as advocates?
Participate in legislative and policymaking activities that influence health determinants and access to services.
Which historical figure is considered nursing’s first moral leader and community-oriented nurse?
Florence Nightingale Modern nursing has a rich heritage of ethics and morality, beginning with Florence Nightingale (1820–1910). The morals and values she gave to nursing have endured. She was passionate about the need to provide care to poor people and about the importance of a sanitary environment, as seen in her work with soldiers in the Crimean War (1854–1856). Because of her commitment to poor individuals in communities, her championing of primary prevention, and the work she did to show that healthy environments saved soldiers’ lives, she is seen as nursing’s first moral leader and community-oriented nurse.
