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chap 6 and 7
values, ethics, and advocacy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| advocy | the protection and support of another's rights. |
| autonomy (self determination) | respect right of patients to make healtcare decisons |
| beneficence | benefit the patients. and balance benefits against risks and harms. |
| care-based approach | directs attention to the specific situations of individual patients viewed w/in the context of their life narrative |
| clinical ethics | branch of bioethics concerned w/ethical problems "at the beside" that is, ethical concerns that arise w/in the context of caring for actual patients. |
| ethical dilemma | when attempted adherence of basic ethical principles results in two conflicting courses of actions |
| ethical distress | the nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action. |
| ETHICS | a systematic inquiry into principles of right and wrong conduct; virtue and vice, good and evil |
| feminist ethics | a particular typeof ethical approach pepular among nurses. it aims to critique existing patterns of oppression and dominations in society, |
| fidelity | keep promise |
| justice | give each his or her due; and act fairly |
| morals | personal or community standart of right and wrong. |
| nonmaleficence | avoid causing harm |
| nursing ethics | subset of biotethics, the formal study of ethical issues that arise in the practice of nursing and of the analysis used by nurses to make ethical judgments. |
| paternalism | acting for the pqatient w/out their consent |
| principle-based approach | combines elements of both utilitarian and deontologic theories and offers specific action guides for practice. |
| code of ethics | set of principles that reflect the primary goals, values, and oblgations of the profession |
| value | a 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. |
| value clarification | process by which people come to understand their own values and value system |
| bioethics | ethics that encompass all those perspectives that seek to understand human nature and behavior, the domain of social science, and the natural world. (ex. stem cell research, cloning) |
| utilitarian | the rightness or wrongness of an actions depends on the consequinces of the action. |
| deontologic | an action is right or wrong independent of its consequences. |
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