Bioethics Mod 2

Question 1

What is bioethics?

Answer 1

Right vs right, ethical and moral implications

Question 2

What is nursing ethics?

Answer 2

Branch of applied ethics, shares many principles with medical ethics like beneficence, non maleficence and respect for autonomy

Question 3

What are ethical principles?

Answer 3

Fundamentally accepted, not always socially accepted, important underlying law or assumption required in a system of thought

Question 4

What are the 4 ethical principles?

Answer 4

1. Autonomy
2. Beneficence
3. Non maleficence
4. Justice

Question 5

What is autonomy?

Answer 5

Making choices for yourself, patients have the right to make choices for themselves

Question 6

What is beneficence?

Answer 6

Do what’s best for the patient at all times, doing everything to benefit the patient

Question 7

What is non-maleficence?

Answer 7

To do no harm, you must consider whether other people of society could be harmed by a decision being made

Question 8

What is justice?

Answer 8

Fairness in all medical decisions, equal distribution of scarce equipment or medicines, uphold applicable laws and legislation

Question 9

What are some principle conflicts?

Answer 9

Autonomy vs beneficence 
ex. Blood/ religion 
Beneficence vs non maleficence 
ex. Immunizations 
Justice vs autonomy 
ex. Violent client 
Autonomy vs paternalism 
Surgery pain 
Beneficence/ non maleficence vs privacy confidentiality 
ex. Telling a family diagnosis