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Ethics
NU 474 Unit 2 Topic 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Advocacy | the act of pleading for or supporting a course of action on behalf of a person, group, or community |
| Bioethics | a branch of ethics that applies the knowledge and processes of ethics to the examination of ethical problems in health care |
| Code of Ethics | moral standards that delineate a profession's values, goals, and obligations |
| Deontology | an ethical theory that bases moral obligation on duty and claims that actions are obligatory irrespective of the good or harmful consequences that they produce |
| Ethical Dilemma | a puzzling moral problem in which a person, group, or community can envision morally justified reasons for both taking and not taking a certain course of action |
| Ethics | a branch of philosophy that includes both a body of knowledge about the moral life and a process of reflection for determining what persons ought to do or be regarding this life |
| Moral Distress | an uncomfortable state of self in which one is unable to act ethically |
| Morality | shared and generational societal norms about what constitutes right or wrong conduct |
| Principlism | an approach to problem solving in bioethics that uses the principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice |
| Utalitarianism | an ethical theory based on the weighing of morally significant outcomes or consequences regarding the overall maximizing of good and minimizing of harm for the greatest number of people |
| Values | beliefs about the worth or importance of what is right or esteemed |
| Autonomy | the quality of having the ability or tendency to function independently |
| Beneficence | doing good or active promotion of doing good |
| Justice | equitable distribution of benefits and burdens |
| Respect for Autonomy | based on human dignity and respect for individuals and allows them to choose those actions and goals that fulfill their life plans unless those choices result in harm to another |
| Distributive Justice | requires that there be a fair distribution of the benefits and burdens in society based on the needs and contributions of its members |
| Nonmaleficence | the fundamental ethical agreement to do no harm |
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