CHAPTER II Flashcards
What are the ethical/moral principles?
- Autonomy
- Nonmaleficence
- Beneficence
- Fidelity
- Veracity
- Accountability
- Responsibility
Right to make one’s own decisions
Autonomy
Parts of Autonomy:
a. patient’s rights
b. patient’s bill of rights
c. informed consent
d. proxy consent
e. confidentiality
f. privacy
a document that provides patients with information on how they can reasonably expect to be treated during the course of their hospital stay.
Patient’s Bill of Rights
agreement by a client to accept a course of treatment or procedure after being provided complete information.
Informed consent
What are the 2 types of consent:
*Express
*Implied
Consent that is either in oral or written form
Express type of consent
Individual’s non-verbal behavior indicates agreement
Implied Consent
3 major elements of informed consent
- Consent must be given voluntarily
- Consent must be given by a client or individual with the capacity & competence to understand
- Client or individual must be given enough information to be the ultimate decision maker.
The process by which people with legal right to consent to medical treatment for themselves or for a minor or a ward, delegate that right to another person.
proxy consent
3 fundamental constraints for proxy consent:
- The person making the delegation must have the right to consent.
- The person must be legally & medically competent to delegate the right to consent.
- The right to consent must be delegated to a legally & medically competent adult.
Keeping of another person or entity’s information private
Confidentiality
Confidentiality is based on what law?
Data privacy act - RA 10173, 2012
refers to the right of an individual to keep his or her health information private.
privacy
the right of individuals to withhold themselves and their lives from public scrutiny
privacy
not placing someone at risk of harm & unintentionally causing harm
Nonmaleficence
implement actions that benefit clients.
Beneficence
Fairness or weighing the facts carefully in order to divide time or services justly.
justice
Faithful to agreements and promises
Fidelity
Truth telling; Having integrity
Veracity
answerable to oneself and others for one’s own actions.
Accountability
the specific accountability or liability associated with the performance of duties of a particular role.
Responsibility
It provides specific guidelines for determining when it is morally permissible to perform an action in pursuit of a good end in full knowledge that the action will also bring about bad results.
Principle of Double Effect
aimed in helping individuals discern how to properly avoid, limit, or distance themselves from evil in order to avoid a worse evil or to achieve an important good.
Principle of legitimate cooperation
The sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.
Common good
Protests and strikes of health personnel who refused to do their work because they had not been provided with necessary protections by the competent institutions.
Nurses’ defiance
nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization.
Subsidiarity
