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ETHICS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| VALUES | strongly held personal and professional beliefs about worth and importance. IE: altruism, equality, aesthetics, freedom, human dignity, justice and truth |
| MORALS | fundamental standard of right and wrong. Learn in early childhood |
| LAWS | binding rules of conduct enforced by authority |
| AUTONOMY | right to self determination, making self decisions unless threath to society. |
| JUSTICE | obligation to be fair to all |
| FIDELITY | obligation of a person to be faithful to commitments , support concept of accountability, carry through on promises. |
| BENEFICIENCE | doing good, incorporates actions to promote good, prevent harm or remove the patient from harm. |
| NONMALEFICENCE | do no harm, protecting those who can't protect themselves such as children, unconscious/incompetent pts. IE amputations |
| VERACITY | truthfullness, nurses must be honest not only with pts but also in documentations & communications w collegues |
| STANDARD OF BEST INTEREST | pts unable to make good decision. |