BIOETHICS MIDTERMS [DECK 1] Flashcards
The branch of philosophy that contemplates what is right and wrong.
MORAL PHILOSOPHY
The branch of philosophy that examines beliefs and assumptions about certain human values.
MORAL PHILOSOPHY
Guidelines that people live by to make sure they are doing the right thing. These include things like honesty, fairness, and equality.
MORAL PRINCIPLES
Is the practical application of moral philosophy; that is, given the moral context of good or bad, right or
wrong, “What should I do in this situation?”
ETHICS
Rationalist view that the rightness or wrongness of an act depends upon the nature of the act rather than the
consequences that occur as a result of it
DEONTOLOGY
If the client asks the nurse to promise to tell
the truth regarding her diagnosis and prognosis, the nurse is duty bound to keep this promise.
DEONTOLOGY
Principle often associated with philosopher Immanuel Kant. follow universal moral laws, such as: “Don’t lie. Don’t kill. Don’t steal. Don’t cheat.”
DEONTOLOGY
One must act for the sake of duty or obligation.
DEONTOLOGY
It is a theory of morality that advocates actions that foster happiness or pleasure and oppose actions that cause unhappiness or harm.
UTILITARIANISM
evaluate the morality of
actions in terms of progress toward a goal or end. The consequences of the action are what matter, not their intent.
CONSEQUENTIALISM/TELEOLOGY
Is the view that morality is all about producing the right kinds
of overall consequences.
CONSEQUENTIALISM/TELEOLOGY
sometimes called character ethics, represents the idea that individuals’ actions are based upon a certain degree of innate moral virtue.
Virtue ethics
The Nightingale Pledge, composed by
Lystra Gretter
Innate human nature to accept the beliefs and practices that
surround them.
BIOETHICS
Different factors that has INFLUENCED MORALITY IN NURSING:
○ Social need
○ Religion
○ Philosophy
The prevailing standards of behavior that enable people to live cooperatively in groups.
MORAL
Refers to what societies sanction as right and acceptable
MORAL
It is the human attempt to define what is right and wrong in thought and behavior, resulting in a system or set of ideas about, and the basis of any individual or community belief in what constitutes good behavior or proper conduct
MORALITY
It is an act which proceeds from the deliberate free will of man.
HUMAN ACTS
Man knows what he is doing and freely chooses to do what he does
HUMAN ACTS
for an act to be human, it must have:
○ Knowledge
○ Freedom
○ Voluntariness
It is the power of a sentient being to exercise its will.
FREEDOM
To do or leave it undone without coercion or constraint.
● FREEDOM
It is a power of the will or of motivation to get us to act as willed.
CONSCIENCE/VOLUNTARINESS
An ethical theory that claims that humans are born with a certain moral compass that guides behaviors.
Natural Law
Refers to non-criminal law. This system of law has to do with interactions between members of a community, and it covers divorce, property rights, contracts, and other conflicts between people.
Civil Law
- A science that deals with the study of the morality of human conduct concerning human life in all its aspects from the moment of its conception to its natural end
BIOETHICS
It is a guide of principles designed to help professionals conduct business honestly and with integrity.
Code of Ethics
deals with complete and systematic body of factual and empirical data and reasoning
SCIENCE
Actions beyond one’s consciousness; not dependent on the intellect and will.
ACTS OF MAN
It is the person’s most secret sanctuary where he/she is alone with God.
CONSCIENCE/VOLUNTARINESS
- DELIBERATE
- FREE
- HOW ONE PERSON SHOULD ACT
HUMAN CONDUCT
- deals with respect for life, freedom, love
- issues that provokes conscience
- issues that responds to ought, should, right, wrong, good, bad and complicated
MORAL ISSUES
- is the field of applied ethics that is concerned with the vast array of moral decision-making situations that relates to human health
HEALTHCARE ETHICS
- examines the rational justification for our moral judgments; it studies what is morally right or wrong, just or unjust.
ETHICS
reflects on human beings and their interaction with nature and with other humans, on freedom, on responsibility and on justice.
ETHICS
THE PERSON
- Biblical created in the image and likeness of God; differing from animals due to possession of
spiritual intelligence and free will.
- God produces the human body through the cooperation of human parents; the creation of the human soul is a
direct act of God
- It is always a well justified true belief —any well justified true belief of what it is about and what it means
KNOWLEDGE
- Facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject:
KNOWLEDGE