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Ethics and Values in Nursing Practice

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What is accountability   the ability and willingness to assume responsibility for one's actions and to accept the consequences of one's behavior  
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What is active euthanasia   actions that directly bring about the client's death with or without consent  
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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  
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What is an advocate   individual who pleads the cause of another or argues or pleads for a cause or proposal  
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What is assisted suicide   a form of active euthanasia in which clients are given the means to kill themselves  
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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  
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Beneficence   the moral obligation to do good or to implement actions that benefit clients and their support persons  
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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  
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What is Consequence based (teleological) theories   the ethics of judging whether an action is moral  
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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  
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What is fidelity   a moral principle that obligates the individual to be faithful to agreements and responsibilities one has undertaken  
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Moral development   process of learning to tell the difference between right and wrong and of learning what ought and ought not to be done  
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What is morality   a doctrine or system denoting what is right and wrong in conduct, character, or attitude  
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Non maleficence   The duty to do no harm  
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What are nursing ethics   ethical issues that occur in nursing practice  
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What is passive euthanasia   allowing a person to die by withholding or withdrawing measures to maintain life  
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What are personal values   values internalized from the society or culture in which one lives  
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What are principal based deontological theories   emphasize individual rights, duties, and obligations  
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What are professional values   values acquired during socialization into nursing from codes of ethics, nursing experiences, teachers, and peers  
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What are responsibilities   specific accountability or liability associated with the performance of duties of a particular role  
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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  
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What is the value system   the organization of a person's values along a continuum of relative importance  
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What is veracity   a moral principle that holds that one should tell the truth and not lie  
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What is value system   the organization of a person's values along a continuum of relative importance  
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