| Question | Answer |
| provides a framework to approach dilemmas thoughtfully and compassionately guiding nurses to make decisions with ethical standards and patient interests | Bioethics |
| IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS IN NURSING: | contributes to an over-all integrity of the health organization, ensuring the patient welfare is always on the forefront of care decisions and actions |
| According to ____ nursing has ranked as the most honest and ethical profession ____ years in the running | Gallup Polls; 22 |
| CONCEPTS OF BIOETHICS IN NURSING: | (1) Medical Ethics
(2) Research Ethics
(3) Environmental Ethics
(4) Public Health Ethics |
| CONCEPTS OF BIOETHICS IN NURSING:
-focuses on issues in health care | Medical Ethics |
| CONCEPTS OF BIOETHICS IN NURSING:
-focuses on issues in the conduct of Research | Research Ethics |
| CONCEPTS OF BIOETHICS IN NURSING:
-focuses on issues pertaining to the relationship between human activities and the environment | Environmental Ethics |
| CONCEPTS OF BIOETHICS IN NURSING:
-involves a systematic process to clarify, prioritize, and justify possible courses of public health action based on ethical principles, values, and beliefs of stakeholders, scientific, and other information | Public Health Ethics |
| a philosophical system that attempts to define the right and wrong action of human agents | Ethical Theories |
| Ethical Theories are the "____" | system of human morality |
| COMPONENTS OF ETHICAL THEORIES: | (1) Deontology
(2) Teleology
(3) Utilitarian
(4) Virtue |
| COMPONENTS OF ETHICAL THEORIES:
-says actions are good or bad according to a clear set of rules | Deontology |
| COMPONENTS OF ETHICAL THEORIES:
-focuses on the right and wrong actions by examining its consequences | Teleology |
| COMPONENTS OF ETHICAL THEORIES:
-focuses on the ability to predict the consequences of an action | Utilitarian |
| COMPONENTS OF ETHICAL THEORIES:
-judges the person by the character than by an action that may deviate from their normal behavior | Virtue |
| teaches an action is only right if it is an action that a virtuous person would carry out in the same circumstances | Virtue Ethics |
| an approach that focuses on developing good character in nurses | Virtue Ethics in Nursing |
| personal ethics or ideals that guide in making decisions, building relationship, and solving problems | Core Values of a Professional Nurse |
| recognizes an individual's right to self-determination and decision | Autonomy |
| right to receive considerate, respectful, and compassionate healthcare in a safe environment | Patient's Rights |
| the patient has the right to make decisions about the plan of care before and during the course of treatment | Patient's Bill of Rights |
| the right to refuse a recommended treatment or plan of care if it is permitted by law and hospital policy | Patient's Bill of Rights |
| the process of communication between a patient and physician that results authorization of agreement to undergo a specific medical intervention | Informed Consent |
| occur when the individual is provided with the legal right to make decisions in behalf of another who is unable to do so for themselves | Proxy Consent/Legally Acceptable Representative |
| pertains to the patient's right to control access to an information | Privacy |
| pertains to the person's obligation to protect and prevent unauthorized disclosure of personal information | Confidentiality |
| also known as truth-telling and the right to know the objective truth | Veracity |
| duty to be faithful to commitments and keeping promises confidential | Fidelity |
| ethical/philosophical idea that people be treated impartially, fairly, properly, and reasonably by the arbiters or the law | Justice |
| promotion of good | Beneficence |
| relates to ensuring that the patient's best interest is considered, regardless of the nurse's personal opinion | Beneficence |
| principle of doing no harm to patients | Non-maleficence |
| commonly referred to in cases of Euthanasia | Principle of Double Effect |
| used to justify the case where a doctor gives drugs to a patient's relieving, distressing symptoms though he knows doing this may shorten patient's life | Principle of Double Effect |
| ex: Saving a patient's life for financial gain in the same good outcome as a patient whose life is saved through direct intention to cure | Principle of Double Effect |
| cooperation with evil act in order to present a greater are from occurring | Principle of Legitimate Cooperation |
| what an individual, lower or smaller group, can achieve within their capacity | Principle of Common Good and Subsidiary |
| should not be taken always and transmitted to the custody and performance of a higher or bigger group | Principle of Common Good and Subsidiary |
| totality of social conditions allowing persons to achieve their communal and individual fulfillment | Common Good |
| coordination of society's activate in a way that supports the internal life of local communities | Subsidiarity |
| commitment of one's self and possessions to God's service, recognizing that we do not have the right of control over our property or ourselves | Principle of Stewardship |
| involves valuing and respecting patients' priorities and self determination | Stewardship in Nursing |
| ROLE OF NURSES AS STEWARDS:
-Nurses incorporate ethical principles of ____, ____, and ____ | justice, beneficence, and looking for the best for our patients |
| ROLE OF NURSES AS STEWARDS:
-focusing on responsible management of patient's lives | Personal |
| ROLE OF NURSES AS STEWARDS:
-providing support by helping to understand the variety of emotions, physical, mental, and cultural interactions they encounter during health and illness | Social |
| ROLE OF NURSES AS STEWARDS:
-focus on improving health and safety of the worker population in the community setting | Ecological |
| ROLE OF NURSES AS STEWARDS:
-nurses serve as stewards of patient care, focusing on responsible management of patient's lives | Biomedical |
| involves value and respect in patients and mitigate technology's potential for disruption/harm and to guide innovation towards beneficial ends | Stewardship in Nursing Ethics |
| directs that anatomical completeness must not be sacrificial without proportional justification maintaining basic human capacities | Totality |
| focuses on human back and provides a hierarchical functions for use in clinical | Integrity |
