UNIT 7: Basic Ethical Principles

Question 1

It is a general judgment that serves as a justification for particular ethical prescriptions and evaluations of human actions.

Answer 1

Basic Ethical Principle

Question 2

It is known as the commitment to oneself.

Answer 2

Stewardship

Question 3

According to WHO, it is the careful and responsible management of the well-being of the population.

Answer 3

Stewardship

Question 4

From a paternalistic approach to care towards encouraging and empowering individuals to take increasing responsibility for their healthcare outcomes.

Answer 4

Stewardship

Question 5

It involves valuing and respecting patients’ priorities and self -determination.

Answer 5

Stewardship

Question 6

It encompass the ethical responsibility to act on behalf of others.

Answer 6

Stewardship

Question 7

What are the core values of ethical nurses?

Answer 7

honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, objectivity and impartiality

Question 8

How can a nurse become stewards to work?

Answer 8

• Patient-population centeredness
• Safety for patients and healthcare personnel
• The needs of an aging workforce
• Increased autonomy for advanced nurse practitioners
• Increased respect for the contributions made by professional nurses
• Clarification of the caring work of the nurse
• Enhancement of the collaborative practice of the multidisciplinary healthcare team

Question 9

How to become effective stewards?

Answer 9

through mentors and role models

Question 10

This basic principle prioritizes the good of the entire person?

Answer 10

Totality

Question 12

Views a person as an integration of biological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual dimensions.

Answer 12

Totality

Question 13

The well-being of the whole person must be included in any therapeutic intervention.

Answer 13

Integrity and Dignity

Question 14

Duty to preserve the whole human person

Answer 14

Integrity

Question 15

Duty to preserve intact the physical component of the integrated bodily and spiritual nature of human life.

Answer 15

Integrity

Question 16

Suggest that the entire patient should be considered when planning care

Answer 16

Integrity and Totality

Question 17

It aims to provide specific guidelines for determining when it is morally permissible to act in pursuit of a good end in full knowledge that the action will also bring about bad results.

Answer 17

Principle of double effect

Question 18

What are the four conditions for the principle of double effect

Answer 18

1. action must be morally good or neutral
2. the bad result could not be meant to achieve a good result
3. the motivation for acting must be solely to achieve good results.
4. The good result must at least be as significant as the bad.

Question 19

Provides justification in which process is based on the intended outcome of pain and symptom relief and the opportunity of benefit and harm

Answer 19

Principle of Double Effect

Question 20

The participation of one agent in the activity of another agent to produce a particular effect or share a joint activity.

Answer 20

Cooperation

Question 21

This becomes problematic when the action of the primary agent is morally wrong.

Answer 21

Cooperation

Question 22

Characterized by their acting in mutuality or unilaterality and in or out of pace with each other.

Answer 22

Cooperation

Question 23

What is the top priority in nursing?

Answer 23

Patient Care

Question 24

Can be used with the issue of sterilization.

Answer 24

Cooperation

Question 25

Formal cooperation in an evil act is never allowed. True or False

Answer 25

True

Question 26

A sense of community among nursing colleagues seems to rely on this; whatever affects one affects another.

Answer 26

Solidarity

Question 27

Invites us to consider how to relate to each other in community.

Answer 27

Solidarity

Question 28

May contribute to the development of colleagues' competence and increase the quality of nursing practice.

Answer 28

Solidarity

Question 29

It is a choice being made of a persons free will, as opposed to being made as the result of coercion or duress

Answer 29

Voluntariness

Question 30

Is present in human act willed in itself

Answer 30

Direct

Question 31

is present in that human act which is the foreseen result of another act directly willed.

Answer 31

Indirect

Question 32

Is present in the human act of doing, performing

Answer 32

Positive

Question 33

Is present in the human act of omitting or refraining from doing

Answer 33

Negative

Question 34

An act that is not intended for its own sake but which merely follows a regrettable consequence of an action action directly willed.

Answer 34

Indirect voluntary action