Question | Answer |
Accountability | State of being answerable for one's actions- |
Advocacy | Process whereby a nurse objectively provides pts. w/ the info they need to make decisions and supports the pts. in whatever decisions they make |
Autonomy | Ability or tendency to function independently |
Beneficence | Doing good or actively promoting doing good; one of the four principles of the ethical theory of deontology |
Code of ethics | formal statement that delineates a profession's guidelines for ethical behavior. |
Confidentiality | Act of keeping info private or secret; in health care the nurse only shares info about a pt.w/ other nurses or health care providers for the pt. care--info can only be given w/ pts. consent. |
the doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences. | Consequential-ism |
Traditional theory of ethics that proposes to define actions as right or wrong based on the characteristics of fidelity to promise, truthfulness, and justice | Deontology |
Principles or standards that govern proper conduct | Ethics |
Delivery of health care based on ethical principles and standards of care | Ethics of Care |
Agreement to keep a promise | Fidelity |
Ethical standard of fairness | Justice |
Nonmaleficience | Fundamental ethical agreement to do no harm. Closely related to the ethical standard of beneficence |
Responsibility | Carrying out duties associated w/a particular role |
Teleology | the explanation of phenomena by the purpose they serve rather than by postulated causes. |
Utilitarianism | Ethic that the value of something is determined by its usefulness |
Value | Personal belief about the worth of a given idea or behavior |