ethics and healthcare 2 Flashcards
principle provides
that good must be done either to oneself or to others.
princi-ple pf benefiecience
to do
what is good and perform for good as a moral obligation
principle of beneficience
giving appropriate nourishment
and fluids, providing air passage, administering medications and
application of necessary medical equipment
pathological and biological care
PRINCIPLE OF BENEFICIENCE
counseling therapeutic
communication, touch and presence, calling of the priest for the
administration of the Sacraments of Confession, Anointing of the
Sick, and the Holy Viaticum for Catholics
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL NEED
PRINCIPLE OF BENEFICIENCE
provides that evil or harm should not be inflicted either on oneself
or on others
PRINCIPLE OF NON MALEFICIENCE
his fundamental moral principle binds and urges everyone to
avoid inflicting harm as a moral obligation
PRINCIPLE OF NON MALEFECIENCE
it is also the primary obligation of health
care providers to make sure that there is no harm exacted on their
patients in whatever form.
PRINCIPLE OF NON MALEFICIENCE
Sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect) of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to
bringing about the same good end
PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT
TRUE OR FALSE
4 CONDITIONS OF DOUBLE EFFECT
The Four Conditions
* The act must be good in itself, or at least, morally indifferent.
* The good effect must directly proceed from the act itself and
not from the evil effect.
* There must be sufficient reason for the performance of an act in
its attainment of the good effect.
* The motive of the agent must be holy and honest.
PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT
a moral power of performing, of possessing, or of requiring
something which is due.
RIGHT
The rendering of what is one’s due. A person who is justly
doing an act to another person gives the latter what is his due
JUSTICE
defined as a moral obligation incumbent upon a person of
doing or omitting (avoiding) something. Duty as a moral obligation to
do good and to avoid evil that which protects one’s rights from
being violated
DUTY
pertains to a fair scheme
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
maximizing strategies to achieve the greatest
amount of good or minimizing strategies to reduce the amount of potential
harm
UTILITIRIAN ALTERNATIVES
highest probability of medical success.
THE MEDICAL SUCESS PRINCIPLE
