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Professional NURS 1
Ethics
Question | Answer |
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What is beneficence? | The obligation of health care providers to help people in need. |
What is nonmaleficence? | The duty of health care providers to do no harm. |
What is autonomy? | The right of patients to make choices regarding their health care. |
What is justice? | The concept of treating everyone in a fair manner. |
What is distributive justice? | The concept of allocation of benefits and burdens in society. |
What is rationing? | A conscious policy of equitably distributing needed resources that are in limited supply. |
Macroallocation | The amount and distribution of resources within an entire society. |
Microallocation | Resource constraints at the level of an individual provider or institution. |
Ethical Dilemma | Situations where a provider is forced to make a decision that violates one of the principles of ethics. |