Chapter 4 Flashcards
The study of ideal human behavior and ideal ways of being.
Ethics
Specific beliefs, behaviors and ways of being based on personal judgements derived from one’s ethics.
Morals
What is used with healthcare ethics?
Bioethics
A specific domino of ethics that is focused on moral issues in the field of heath care.
Bioethics
Is a branch of applied ethics that concerns itself with activities in the field of nursing. It shares many principles with medical ethics, such as beneficence, non-maleficence and respect for autonomy.
Nursing ethics
Pertains to making decisions about how humans ought to be and act.
Moral reasoning
Pertains to knowing the values of the nursing profession and one’s own authentic moral values, integrating these two belief systems, and expressing them appropriately.
Wholeness of character
Involves acting consistently with personal values and the values of the profession. The quality of being honest.
Integrity
Who am I? what is the purpose of life? what is the meaning of my life? How are you using virtue ethics to work in the environment. What kind of person can I be to achieve my life’s purpose.
Virtue ethics
Rightness of actions is self evident from laws of nature. Examples: Man is suppose to be with women. Women should be at home with the children and men should be the one out working
Natural law
Actions that are duty based, not based on rewards, happiness, or consequences. Individuals are required to act from duty regardless if they wish to do so. Example: abortions
Deontology
Promote the greatest good that is possible in a situation. experiences different qualities and are not equal amongst individuals. When you have hospital policies that is for the greater good. What is best for the group not the individual.
Utilitarianism
History in feminist ethics where personal relationships and relationship responsibilities are emphasized. Where can we equalize patient care when it comes to men and women in the work field. You are going to have to educate people not tell them what to do. You have to help them understand how to do something. Critical thinking
Ethics of care
Involves one’s ability to self-rule and to generate persona decisions independently.
Autonomy
Consists of deeds of mercy, kindness, and charity. Implies that nurses take actions to benefit patients and to facilitate their well-being. EX: lifting side rails, and taking time to make phone calls for a frail older patient.
Beneficence
Nurses might decide to act in ways that the believe are for a patient’s own good rather than allowing patients to exercise their autonomy. EX: A nurse decides that a patient must try to ambulate in the hall, even though the patient moans and complains of being too tired from his morning whirlpool treatment.
Paternalism