Ethics Flashcards
Beliefs?
Interpretations or conclusions that people accept as true.
Beliefs are based on ?
Faith more than fact
Attitudes?
Mental positions and d feelings toward a person, object or idea
Attitude must reflect?
Professionalism
How are values acquired?
- Learned through observation and experience
- Heavily influenced by a persons sociocultural environment
Type of values?
Personal and professional
Professional values?
Altruism Autonomy Human dignity Integrity Social justice
Altruism?
Concern for the well-being and welfare of others
Autonomy?
Right to self-determination
Human dignity?
Respect for the inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations
Integrity?
Acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and standards
Social justice?
Acting in accordance with fair treatment regardless of economic status, race, ethnicity, age, etc.
Clarifying values?
- Personal reflection on personal values
- Essential to clarify client values
- Alignment with QSEN
QSEN’s importance in clarifying values?
Clients values must be assessed at every step of the nursing process
Processes to help clients clarify values?
- List alternatives
- Examine possible consequences of choices
- Choose freely
- Feeling about the choice
- Affirm the choice
- Act with a pattern
Ethics?
A method of inquiry that helps people to understand the morality of human behavior
The practices of beliefs of a certain group
The expected standards of moral behavior of a particular group ad described in the groups formal code of professional ethics
Moral principles?
Autonomy Nonmaleficence Beneficence Justice Fidelity Veracity Accountability Responsibility
Autonomy?
Allow patient to make own decisions
Nonmaleficence?
Do no harm
Beneficence?
To do good
Justice?
Fairness. What you do for one you must do for all.
Fidelity?
Faithful to agreements or promises.
Veracity?
Tell the truth
Accountability
Answer to yourself and actions
Code of ethics?
- Formal statement of groups ideal and values
- Shared by members of the group
- Reflects their moral judgement overtime
- Serves as a standard for professional actions
Purpose of the code of ethics?
- Inform public about minimum standards of the profession and help them understand professional nursing conduct.
- Provide a sign of the professions commitment to the public it serves
- Outline the major ethical considerations of the profession
- Provide ethical standards for professional behavior
- Guide the profession in self-regulation
- Remind nurses of the special responsibility they assume when caring for the sick
Nursing obligation in ethical decision making?
- Maximize the client’s well being
- Balance the clients need for autonomy with the family members responsibilities for the clients well being
- Support each family member and enhance the family support system
- Carry out hospital policies
- Protect other clients wellbeing
- Protect the nurses own standards of care
Advocacy?
- One who expresses and defends the cause of another
- Legally incompetent appoint an advocate
- Overall goal to protect the clients rights TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS
Values?
- Enduring beliefs and attitudes about a worth of a person, object, idea, or action
- Influences decisions and actions
- Questions of value underlie all moral decisions
- Value system
