Ch. 7 Ethics Flashcards
(23 cards)
The principle of self determination; a person’s ability to make moral decisions, including those affecting personal medical care.
Autonomy
A duty to confer benefits; the practice of good deeds; an obligation to benefit others or to seek their good
Beneficence
The systematic study of moral dimensions, including the moral vision, decisions, conduct, and policies of the life science and health care.
Bioethics
The discipline relating to right and wrong, moral duty and obligation, moral principles and values, and moral character; a standard for honorable behavior designed by a group with expected conformity
Ethics
The psychological impact of witnessing events that conflict or contradicts with one’s morals.
Moral injury
The personal standards that a person uses to distinguish right from wrong.
Morals
Conduct that fails to conform to moral principles, values, or standards.
Unethical
Consistent access to quality medical services; the distribution of health-related services among various people and uses.
Allocation of resources
The presumption that certain information will not be revealed to others without the patient’s permission.
Confidentiality
The prevention of harm, from the Hippocratic tradition that established primum non nocere (Above all, do not harm); a prohibition against actions with foreseeable harmful effects.
Nonmaleficence
Adherence to a personal set of values and moral standards.
Personal integrity
The most basic question of ethical tests in healthcare.
What is in the patient’s best interest?
What is the global concept of healthcare?
Providing patient benefit and avoiding harm
What is not a reliable determination for ethical decision making?
Emotion
What are meant to guide not dictate?
Global protocols
How does an ethical question become a rule to guide behavior in a particular setting?
Once the ethical question has been answered.
Who posed a moral dilemma to young children asking for specific course of action? What was his dilemma called?
Kohilberg; The Heinz Dilemma
What test helps to correct partiality or personal bias and contains, “Would you accept the action if you were in the patient’s place?”
Impartiality test
What test helps to do away with moral decision difficulty and contains, “Would you feel comfortable having this action performed in all relevantly similar circumstances?”
Universalizability test
What test requires that the paramedic define reasons for proceeding that others would approve and contains’ “Am I able to provide good reasons to justify and defend my actions to others?”
Interpersonal justiciability test
What is the point of prospective and retrospective reviews of decisions and policies?
To educate the paramedic and improve the quality of patient care.
What term means that the paramedic generally is responsible for following the orders of the medical director or the director’s designee?
Physician extender
Questions that reflect one’s own ethical life.
- Did I practice any virtues?
- Did I do more good than bad?
- Did I treat people with dignity and respect?
- Was I fair and just?
- Was my community better because I was in it and was I better because I was in my community?
