Ethics Flashcards
Values
Strong personal belief and ideals
Ethics
Study of what is right and wrong
Moral development
Process through childhood and adolescence where people learn to make decisions about what is right and wrongs based on their own values and actions
Values conflict occurs when
Your personal values differ from someone else’s (patient, coworker)
Values clarification is
A personal reflection of what is important to you and process of appraising rules. They are NOT a set of rules
Morality
Ethics
Morality is understanding between right and wrong and Ethics is studying how our morals influence our actions in life and requires exploring values, behaviors, actions, and justifications.
Code of Ethics
Serves as a guide of how to make difficult decisions and a foundation of all ethical practices and used by all members of that profession
7 Values of Canadian Nurses by the CNA
1) Being accountable
2) Dignity of patient
3) Proving safe competent care
4) Promoting patient to make their own decisions
5) Privacy and Confidentiality
6) Justice
7) Promotion of health
Responsibility
Characteristics of reliability and dependability
Accountability
Accepting responsibility for ones own actions
Advocacy
Speaking up for someone else. Nurses role to protect patients dignity by advocation to decrease suffering
Deontology
Rule based on what is right and wrong
Based on principles and rules of universal good qualities like truth, justice, and fidelity
Utilitarianism
Based on the greater amount of good for the most people
A part of consequentialism
Consequentialism (Teleology)
Based on the RESULTS and OUTCOMES
Utilitarianism
Justification is outcome
Bioethics
Ethical reasoning for physicians. Focused around BANJ, Beneficence, Autonomy, Non-maleficence, justice