Ethics Flashcards
This deals with the freedom of the individual to choose their own life plan and ways of being moral. Allows for the refusal of treatment.
Autonomy
This refers to the obligation to do good, and cause no harm to other people. It guides the treatment decisions.
Beneficence
This is where the best intressts of the client trump the practitioner preferences.
Beneficence
This is the prhibition of intentional harm. “Do no harm”
Nonmaleficence
When there is balance between the risk and the benefit of the patient.
Nonmaleficence
This is the obligation to be fair to all people and often refers to avaialbe resources
Justice
This refers to telling the truth, or not intentionally deciving or misleading patients.
Veracity
This can refer to nurses encouraging family to be truthful with their family.
Veracity
The duty to protect privileged information is called?
Confidentiality
The obligation to be faithful to the agreements and commitments and responsibilities that one has made to oneself and to others.
Fidelity
Nurses have this for their patients and for human life.
Respect
What are the underlying principles of respect that are the basis for ethical issues?
That life is valuable and that humans are morally obligated to preserve and protect it. And that the principle of respect for persons prompts questions about the quality of life.
This theory approaches ethical dilemmas based on the consequence or final product. The greatest good for the greatest number of people and measures mrality by the amount of pleasure obtained.
Utilitarianism
What is the basic principles behind utilitarianism?
This theory approaches ethical dilemmas based on the consequence or final product. The greatest good for the greatest number of people and measures mrality by the amount of pleasure obtained.
This theory approaches ethical dilemmas using the concepts of justice, autonomy, veracity and beneficence without consideration of consequences.
Deontology
What are the basic principles behind deontology?
An action is moral if it arises solely from goodwill, and not frim other motives. Follows the golden rule. Do unto others as you wold have them do unto you. and does not look to the consequences of action see if it’s right or wrong.
This theory states that ethics must be based on the concern for human good.
Natural law
What are the basic principles behind Natural Law?
The potentiality of humans is based on a uniquely human trait, which is the ability to reason and do good and avoid evil.
This theory approaches an ethiacl dilemma based on social relevance and relationships. Looks at the inequities within society.
Feminist
This theory approachs the ethics of care based on caring as as central and personal relationships with focus on the individual.
A Higher calling
How are values learned?
Valuse are learned through observation of others, reasoning as in having an understanding of the reasons behind a certain thing and through experience.
How are values transmitted through modeling?
Values are acquired from role models such as parents ,teachers, and preceptors.
How are values transmitted through moralizing?
Parents set standards of right and wrong are ridgidly forced and child is made to conform to their sets of values.
How are values transmitted through Laissez-Faire?
Values are acquired without any guideline or restirctions.
