Quiz 1

Question 1

Advantages of studying nursing ethics

Answer 1

• Guides personal & professional moral decisions
• Creates the ability to critically think
• Clarifies situations or makes one reflect on possible moral events
• Does not make one moral per se

Question 2

Levels of Ethics

Answer 2

• Moral judgements
• Moral principles or ideals
• Codes of Ethics & Laws
• Ethical Theories

Question 3

Moral Judgements

Answer 3

• Expressive
  no justification and unanalyzed expressions
• Pre-reflective
  made with reference to conventional rules or values
• Reflective
  Based on principles and morality

Question 4

Knowledge base

Answer 4

Having a number of tools available to address situations in which a moral dillema occurs

1 component - Know Thyself - reflection on values and principles
2 component - Codes & Principles - Codes of Ethics

Question 5

Codes of ethics are…

Answer 5

• Normative: set standards ought to meet

- Descriptive: describe the identity of nursing

Question 6

Why not relying ethics only on Codes & Policies & Laws

Answer 6

Fallacies!
For example:
- Moral legalism - gay marriage has been illegal for years
- Popularity appeal - Ad Populum - what the majority thinks might not be right or moral
- No evidence to suport a moral or an idea

Question 7

EDMFs

Answer 7

Ethical Decision-Making Framework

• provides guidance to reflect to decide
• intended to aid decision-making & not to replace the process
• Decision-making requires judgment

Question 8

Ethical Theory

Answer 8

Used to reflect on morality

How we ought to behave and why

Question 9

Ethical Theory Masqueraders

Answer 9

• Egoism

- Relativism

Question 10

Egoism

Answer 10

Only motive for human behaviour is self-interest

Question 11

Relativism

Answer 11

Moral judgments, principles & ideals are relative to individual, persons, cultures or groups.
”Who are you to judge”