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