Question | Answer |
What is accountability | the ability and willingness to assume responsibility for one's actions and to accept the consequences of one's behavior |
What is active euthanasia | actions that directly bring about the client's death with or without consent |
What is Advance Health Care Directive | a variety of legal and lay documents that allow persons to specify aspects of care they wish to receive should they become unable to make or communicate their preferences |
What is an advocate | individual who pleads the cause of another or argues or pleads for a cause or proposal |
What is assisted suicide | a form of active euthanasia in which clients are given the means to kill themselves |
What is an attitude | mental stance that is composed of many different beliefs; usually involving a positive or negative judgment toward a person, object, or idea |
Beneficence | the moral obligation to do good or to implement actions that benefit clients and their support persons |
What is code of ethics | formal s/ment of a group's ideals&values;a set of ethical principles shared by members of a group,reflecting their moral judgments&serving as a standard for professional actions |
What is Consequence based (teleological) theories | the ethics of judging whether an action is moral |
What are ethics | the rules or principles that govern right or wrong conduct. Ethics is concerned with meaning of words such as right,wrong,good,bad,ought,&duty |
What is fidelity | a moral principle that obligates the individual to be faithful to agreements and responsibilities one has undertaken |
Moral development | process of learning to tell the difference between right and wrong and of learning what ought and ought not to be done |
What is morality | a doctrine or system denoting what is right and wrong in conduct, character, or attitude |
Non maleficence | The duty to do no harm |
What are nursing ethics | ethical issues that occur in nursing practice |
What is passive euthanasia | allowing a person to die by withholding or withdrawing measures to maintain life |
What are personal values | values internalized from the society or culture in which one lives |
What are principal based deontological theories | emphasize individual rights, duties, and obligations |
What are professional values | values acquired during socialization into nursing from codes of ethics, nursing experiences, teachers, and peers |
What are responsibilities | specific accountability or liability associated with the performance of duties of a particular role |
What is utilataranilasm | a specific, consequence-based, ethical theory that judges as right the action that does the most good and least amount of harm for the greatest number of persons; often used in making decisions about the funding and delivery of health care |
What is the value system | the organization of a person's values along a continuum of relative importance |
What is veracity | a moral principle that holds that one should tell the truth and not lie |
What is value system | the organization of a person's values along a continuum of relative importance |