Ethics Flashcards
(28 cards)
Acts of doing good
Beneficence
The freedom to make your own choices
self-determination
The avoidance of harm or hurt
non-maleficence
A written expression of a person’s wishes about their medical care especially during a terminal disease or end of life care.
Advanced Directive
Fidelity
Dedication, loyalty, truthfulness, advocacy and fairness to patients - keeping promises.
Boundaries
Appropriate professional behavior that serves to maintain the trust between patients and nurses to maintain nurse’s good standing within their profession.
Informed Consent
Meaningful information must be disclosed even if the provider does not believe the information will be beneficial.
Nurses are practicing this behavior when they try to identify unmet patient needs and then follow up to address the needs appropriately.
Advocacy
Durable Power of Attorney
The legal document with the most strength, a written directive in which a designated person is allowed to make healthcare decisions for a patient.
A virtue that guides individuals in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions.
Social Justice
Ethics
Rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad- the should of human behavior.
The right to perform certain activities because they conform to the accepted standards or ideas within the community.
Moral right
Application of ethical theories and principles to problems in healthcare.
Bioethics/Clinal Ethics
Values
Person belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets the standards that influence behavior.
Dilemma
A situation that requires one to choose between two equally balanced alternatives.
Something that perplexes health care providers and may have a strong reason for a course of action that may be balanced by an equally powerful countervailing argument.
Ethical dilemma
Autonomy
A person’s independence and right to make choices
The most fundamental human right
Respect for person
Veracity
Accuracy or conformity to truth
Understanding ethical issues requires an exploration of what components?
- personal values
- others’ values and behaviors
- patients’ rights
- institutional and societal issues/policies
What is a set of ethical principles that are accepted by all members of a profession, are an implied contract through which a profession informs society of the principles and rules by which it functions, and provides guidelines for safe and protective care?
Code of Ethics
Provisions 1-3
Reiterates the fundamental values and commitments of the nurse
- Respect for others
- Commitment to the patient
- Advocacy for the patient
Provisions 4-6
Identifies the boundaries of duty and loyalty
- Accountability and responsibility for practice
- Duty to self and duty to others
- Contributions to healthcare environments
Provisions 7-9
Describes the duties of the nurse that extend beyond individual patient encounters.
- Advancement of the nursing profession
- promotion of community and world health
- Promotion of the nursing profession
