Chapter 1 Flashcards
As nurses, there are challenges that comes along our way. What do we call the challenges that can profoundly affect the nursing behavior and nursing practice to the detriment of patient health outcomes?
Moral Distress
Occurs when no one knows the right thing to do, but constraints make it nearly impossible to pursue the right course of actions.
Moral Distress
As nurses, we experience or encounter the challenge of moral distress. As there are classifications on how to determine where moral distress is associated with, what moral distress is concern with continuing life support measures perceived not in the patient’s best interest or futile care?
Professional anguish over patient care decisions
It is another classification where moral distress is associated into. this is focus on poor communications , bullying, working with incompetent colleagues, witnessing practice errors and lack of collegial collaboration.
Team and unit level concerns
This is the other classification where moral distress is associated. It is the feeling of unsupported by senior administration and institutional culpability as a result of health care processes and system constraints impeding reliable patient care delivery.
System-level factors
What do clinicians experience where ethical dilemmas as a consequences of the challenging reality of providing healthcare within a complex health care system?
Sense of awareness
It is considered to be the central to the study of ethics.
Concepts of Human Acts
Are voluntary acts which proceeds from the free will. It depend on human judgement and choice hence entail a moral responsibility.
Human Acts
He asserted that , in the study of moral philosophy or ethics human acts are said to be proceeding from man’s will according to the dictates of reason.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Acts performed by the individual which are not subject to his will and reason are not called strictly human acts but rather are
Natural acts
Can become human acts when he employs his intellect & will in performing the act.
Acts of man
It is the field of philosophy that specifically studies human acts in the light of morality. The issue of man’s actions in every stage of life will always be a source of enduring philosophical wonder.
Ethics
“The unexamined life is not worth living” is a line of
Socrates
A nursing philosopher first introduced moral distress, known as moral dilemma in his book in 1984, which means ethical distress.
Jameton
Presented the first model of moral distress which he defined as the experienced mental imbalance and negative emotion when the individual makes an ethical decision but is not able to act in line with their decision.
Wilkinson
Author of Ethics Primer. She wrote that Aristotle critiqued Plato’s form of good, that there exists multiple virtues of varying degrees.
Dr. Ma. Liza Ocampo
Can be understood not only on how the said good affects himself but also with those around him since man is a political animal. Can be understood in an empirical manner.
The sense of good or the good of man
All forms of good actions seek happiness.
True
The content of moral goodness passes through
Reason and will
The mark of moral goodness passes through
Rationality among different people, places, and cultures
It’s a good which is desired in itself because of its intrinsic goodness, which means that man naturally tends towards these goods. Example: any virtue, health, science, and Wellness.
Honorable good
It is a moral good that is the same honorable good in as much as its possession silences desire and produces joy. Examples are any sense-perceptible good in so far as it produces pleasure or delight and the satisfaction produced by virtue of scientific knowledge.
Pleasurable good
Is a good which not desired for its own goodness but for the sake of attaining some other good.
Useful good
It is objective and is not a matter of man’s subjective take on the goodness of the things in the world.
Goodness
It refers to the plan of divine wisdom leading all creation towards its goal.
Eternal Law
