Ethicomoral Flashcards
Are interpretations or conclusions that people accept as true.
Beliefs
Are acquired during socialization into nursing from codes of ethics, nursing experiences, teachers, and peers.
Professional Values
Is a process by which people identify, examine, and develope their own invidual values.
Values Clarification
Is ethics applied to human life or death.
Bioethics
Is the process of learning to tell the difference between right and wrong.
Moral Development
Look the the outcomes of an action in judging whether that action is right and wrong.
Consequence-based (teleological) theories
Views a good act as one that is most useful, one the bring the most good and least harm to the greatest number of people.
Utilitarianism
Involve logical and formal processes and emphasize individual rights, duties, and obligations.
Principles-based (deontological) theories
Emphasize corage, generosity, commitmeny, and the need to nurture and maintain relationships.
Relationships-based (caring theories)
Fefers to the right to make one’s own decisions.
Autonomy
Is the duty to “do no harm”
Nonmaleficence
Means “doing good”
Beneficence
Is frequently referred to as fairness.
Justice
Means to be faithful to agreement and promises.
Fidelity
Refers to telling the truth.
Veracity
