Midterms

Question 1

self-determination and free from coercion

Answer 1

Autonomy

Question 2

concept of being honest

Answer 2

Veracity

Question 3

do good; kindness and charity

Answer 3

Beneficence

Question 4

do no harm

Answer 4

Non-Maleficence

Question 5

faithfulness to a person beliefs or cause

Answer 5

Fidelity

Question 6

principle of keeping the secrets of patients secure and other personal information

Answer 6

Confidentiality

Question 7

patient has the right to fair and important treatment

Answer 7

Justice

Question 8

valuing and respecting patient’s priority and self-determination

Answer 8

Stewardship

Question 9

use to justify action that have intended good effect and unintended bad effect

Answer 9

double effect

Question 10

evil occurs when a person’s action unintentionally help another person do something wrong

Answer 10

Material and Formal Effect

Question 11

the whole is greater than its part

Answer 11

Totality

Question 12

sense of community among nursing collegues

Answer 12

Solidarity

Question 13

the principle that when faced with selecting from two moral options, the least immoral one should be chosen

Answer 13

Lesser Evil

Question 14

little voice; personal self

Answer 14

Conscience

Question 15

this focuses only on laws and obligations, commands, in such way that there is hardly any place for the conscience to evaluate and decide

Answer 15

Heteronomous

Question 16

totally subjective, which ignores the law and determines by itself what is right and wrong

Answer 16

Autonomous

Question 17

Concepts of Conscience

Answer 17

Heteronomous and Autonomous

Question 18

Levels of Conscience

Answer 18

1. Antecedent actual conscience
2. Concomitant actual conscience
3. Consequent actual conscience

Question 19

process of making judgement in conscience before performing moral acts

Answer 19

Antecedent actual conscience

Question 20

our actual awareness of being morally responsible for the goodness or the badness of a particular act which we are carrying out

Answer 20

Concomitant Actual conscience

Question 21

the process of reflection on one’s moral responsibility relative to past action

Answer 21

Consequent actual conscience

Question 22

Qualities of Conscience

Answer 22

1. Personal Freedom
2. Objective Values
3. Moral Attitude
4. Degree of Certitude

Question 23

Qualities of a fully mature and responsible conscience

Answer 23

1. free
2. correct
3. clear
4. certain

Question 24

Qualities of a fully mature and responsible conscience

Answer 24

1. free
2. correct
3. clear
4. certain

Question 25

Dimension of Conscience

Answer 25

1. General sense of value 2. Search to discover the right course of action 3. Actual concrete judgment

Question 26

one is able to a personal moral stand with regard to a particular attitude in a way that is unintended

Answer 26

Free

Question 27

has obstacle or influence that hinders

Answer 27

Unfree

Question 28

one's subjective perception of conscience are in conformity with the objective moral value

Answer 28

correct

Question 29

lack of conformity between the objective values and the moral demands that they carry with them

Answer 29

erroneous

Question 30

one is error through one's own fault and is therefore responsible for such an erroneous state of conscience

Answer 30

culpable

Question 31

one is in error through no fault of one's own

Answer 31

inculpable

Question 32

careless in its effort to clearly perceive and internalize the particular moral value

Answer 32

Lax

Question 33

when the conscience ends to judge moral obligations too harshly

Answer 33

stritct

Question 34

conscience that tends to judge sin to be present where in fact there are none

Answer 34

scrupulous

Question 35

tends to be self-righteous as for one's own moral evaluation is concerned while tending to be judgemental towards other

Answer 35

Pharisaical

Question 36

confidently and freely acts and with due regard for percieving

Answer 36

clear

Question 37

worst type of conscience because it has low sensitivity to sin and God

Answer 37

Callous

Question 38

one judge it to be equally wrong to act in a particular way

Answer 38

Perplexed

Question 39

the conscience is able to reach a degree of certainty in its own formality of moral judgement so that all practical doubts are resolve

Answer 39

Certain

Question 40

the conscience arrives at a point where it finds security in its own formation of a moral attitude

Answer 40

Probable

Question 41

lacks of sufficient evidence to make or leave judgement

Answer 41

doubtful