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Ethics Chapter 6
Fundamentals of Nursing 6th Edition Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Value | the belief about the worth of something, about what matters, that acts as a standard to guide one's behavior |
| Value System | an organization of values in which each is ranked along a continuum of importance, often leading to a personal code of conduct |
| Values Clarification | a process by which people come to understand their own values and value system |
| Ethics | systematic inquiry into principles of right and wrong conduct, of virtue and vice, and of good and evil as they relate to conduct. |
| Morals | refers to personal or communal standards of right and wrong |
| Bioethics | ethics that encompass all those perspectives that seek to understand human nature and behavior, the domain of social science, and the natural world |
| Clinical Ethics | the branch of bioethics concerned with ethical problems "at the bedside" |
| Nursing Ethics | the formal study of ethical issues that arise in the practice of nursing and of the analysis used by nurses to make ethical judgements |
| Ethical Dilemma | arise when basic ethical principles results in two conflicting courses of action |
| Principle-based approach | ethics combines elements of both utilitarian and deontologic theories and offers specific action guides for practice. |
| Care-based approach | directs attention to the specific situations of individual patients viewed within the context of their life narrative |
| Feminist ethics | aims to critique existing patterns of oppression and domination in society, especially those that affect women and poor. |
| Ethical agency | the ability to behave i an ethical way; to do the ethically right thing because it is the right thing to do |
| Ethical distress | occurs when the nurse knows the right thing to do but either personal or institutional factors make it difficult to follow the correct course of action. |
| Paternalism | acting for patients without their consent to secure good or prevent harm |
| Advocacy | the protection and support of another's rights. |
| Autonomy | self-determination; being independent and self-governing |
| Beneficence | Principle of doing good |
| Deontologic | ethical system in which actions are right or wrong independent of the consequences they produce |
| Fidelity | Keeping promises and commitments made to others |
| Justice | Process that distributes benefits, risks, and costs fairly |
| Nonmaleficence | Principle of avoiding evil |
| Utilitarian | action-guiding theory of ethics that states that the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of the action |
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