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ETHICS
Question | Answer |
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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. |