Ethics Flashcards
Places where euthanasia is legal
Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Canada, Columbia , Japan, and India
Ability to perform well
Competence
Informed consent
Communication between professional and a subject gives permission for procedure to occur
Persons right to keep personal information out of public view
Privacy
Capacity to keep information restricted only to those who have permission to view it
Confidentiality
Integrity
Adherence to ethical principles; honest behaviors
Ethical issues in healthcare
Patient privacy and confidentiality
Transmission of diseases
Relationships
End of life issues
Elderly patients
Aggressive marketing practices
Legal and ethical euthanasia
Passive
Indirect
Passive
Withholding life sustaining medical interventions
Indirect
Increasing narcotics to ease patient pain which kills them
Unethical
Voluntary/ active
Involuntary
(Nonvoluntary active euthanasia idk)
Physician assisted suicide
Voluntary active euthanasia
Intentionally administering medications or other interventions to cause the patients death with consent
Involuntary active
Administering meds to kill the patient without their consent although they are competent
Non voluntary active euthanasia
Meds for the patient’s death without their consent but they are mentally incapable to consent
Physician assisted suicide
Physician provides medication and other interventions knowing that the patient will use it to commit suicide
Health ethics committee goal
Establish a written code of ethics that details policies and procedures that determines proper conduct for all employees
Health ethics committee members
Md, therapists, nurses, and other healthcare providers
Applied branch of ethics that analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and relate scientific research
Medical ethics
Practical discipline that provides a structured approach to assist health professionals in identifying analyzing and resolving ethical issues that arise in clinical practice
Clinical ethics
Schools of ethics
Virtue ethics (how to live your life)
Consequential (is it good?)
Deontological/ duty based (is it right?)
Virtue ethics principles
Aspiring to a set of virtues
Avoiding vices
Integrity is the primary value
Virtue ethics philosophers
Aristotle
Alasdair macintyre
Consequentialist
Aims at bringing about the greatest good for the greatest number of people
Consequentialist philosophers
David Hume
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart mill
