Ethics Flashcards
Ability to answer for one’s actions - TJC patient safety guidelines
Accountability
“honoring one’s commitment” - I’ll be right back
Fidelity
Value is determined by its usefulness, focus on outcome or consequence of an action - sex education
Utilitarianism
Freedom from external control, right to make their own decisions - surgical consent
Autonomy
Protect the client’s right to make their own decision - educate, support, liaison
Advocate
Fairness
Justice
Telling the truth
Veracity
Do no harm
- bone marrow transplant - complexity
Nonmaleficence
Doing good
-actions that benefit the client
Beneficence
Defines actions as right or wrong on the basis of their own “right-making characteristics”
Deontology
Patient’s rights when they are admitted to a hospital
- Making decisions regarding their care
- Being actively involved
- Being treated with dignity and respect
- Check out their bill or rights***
The study of the moral principles of our interaction with other people
-concerns with human obligations, duties, and responsibilities
Ethics
___ ____ states. “academic educators must also seek to ensure that all their graduates possess the knowledge, skills, and moral dispositions that are essential to nursing
Nurses Code of Ethics by the (ANA) American Nurses Association
ANA Purpose:
Serve as a standard for their professional actions
It is incumbent upon nurse educators in all levels of nursing programs to model ethical conduct, professionalism, inclusion and civility (ex. healthy work environments)
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996
Purpose is to protect health information and the protection of privacy
-total of 10 exceptions
