Chapt 5 Values, Ethics, and advocacy Flashcards
VALUES
Enduring beliefs or attitudes about the worth of a person, object, idea, or action.
Beliefs (opinions) –
Interpretations or conclusions that people accept as true.
Attitudes
Mental positions or feelings toward a person, idea, or object.
Values transmission
Personal values
Gives as sense of individuality
Professional values
Acquired during socialization into nursing from codes of ethics, nursing experiences, teachers, and peers.
Values clarification
Nurses values Influenced by culture, education, and age. Client values Identify client’s values as they influence and relate to a particular health problems. List all alternatives Examine possible consequence of choice Choose freely Feeling about the choice
Morality and ethics
Ethics
Methods of inquiry that helps people to understand the morality of human behavior.
Practices of beliefs in certain group
The expected standards of moral behavior
Bioethics
Ethics applied to human life or health
Nursing ethics
Refers to ethical issues that occur in nursing practic
Morality
Refers to private, personal standards of what is right and wrong in conduct, character, and attitude.
Autonomy
Right to make one’s own decisions.
Nonmaleficence
Is a duty to do no harm
Beneficence
Doing good.
Justice
fairness
Fidelity
To be faithful to agreements and promises
Veracity
Telling the truth
Nursing code of ethics
A set of ethical principles:
Shared by members of the group
reflects their moral judgements over time
Serves as a standard for their professional actions
Purpose of code of ethics
Inform the public about the minimum standards of the
profession and help them understand professional nursing
conduct.
Provide a sign of the profession’s commitment of the
public it serves.
Outline the major ethical considerations pf the profession.
Strategies to enhance ethical decisions and practice
Become aware of your own values and the ethical aspects of
nursing
Be familiar nursing codes of ethics
Seek continuing education opportunities to stay knowledgeable
about ethical issues in nursing.
Strategies to enhance ethical decisions and practice
Respect the values, opinions, and responsibilities of other health
care professionals that may be different from your own.
Participate in or establish ethics rounds.
Serve on ethics institutional committees.
Strive for collaborative practice in which nurses functions
effectively in cooperation with other healthcare professionals
Specific ethical issues
AIDS
Abortion
Organ and tissue transplantation
End-of-life issues
Advocacy
Role
Supports clients in their decisions
Objective and not convey approval or disapproval of the client’s choices
Intervenes on the client’s behalf
