Ethics and Nursing as a Moral practice

Question 1

Reason

Answer 1

judgement, capacity to reason, wisdom

Question 2

Morality vs Ethics

Answer 2

Both rule of conduction, reflection, interrogation.
Morality is Latin and Ethics is Greek origin
Morality is closed system, rigid and applies to concreate situation. (CODE GUIDE OUR ACTIONS)
Ethics is open-minded, room to reflection and flexible. (ALL THAT ESCAPES FROM CODES)

Question 3

A normative endeavor

Answer 3

related to how individuals and group make choices about how they ought to behave or act in situations.

Question 4

Belmont report

Answer 4

Ethical principles & guidelines for the protection of human subject of research

Question 5

Clinical Ethics

Answer 5

Immediate and short intervention, not consider public or health care policies. Focus on dillema, decision, uncertainties, conflicts and values.

Question 6

Bioethics include

Answer 6

Research Ethics
Policies and Health care ethics
Clinical ethics

Question 7

Basic ethical principles

Answer 7

3 fundamental ethical principles
Autonomy
Beneficience/Nonmaleficience
Justice

Question 8

Application of the basic ethical principles in research

Answer 8

Informed consent (information, comprehension & volontariness)
Assessment of risk & benefits
Selection of subjects

Question 9

Moral distress

Answer 9

Suffering arise in response to ‘‘challenges, threats or violations of professional & individual integrity’’
Feeling compromised in fulfilling a duty of care!

Question 10

Precipitation factor of Moral distressw:

Answer 10

Lack self-confidence and intrateam conflict.

Question 11

The nuremberg code is

Refer to

Answer 11

set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set as a result of the subsequent Nuremberg trials at the end of 2WW.
Refer to hippocratic duty

Question 12

Tuskegee syphillis experiment duration

Answer 12

40y

Question 13

Ethical fitness

Answer 13

is about how one prepares to make good choices and take actvion that benefit others.

Question 14

How can nurses practice ethically?

Answer 14

Taking the time to reflect on values and beliefs
Knowing ones strengths
Be aware of codes of ethics
Understanding how the context of health care and nursing influence moral distress
Identifying strategies that develop ethical fitness
promoting interventions that are in the best interest of the client.

Question 15

2 distinct components of moral distress:

Answer 15

Initial distress
Reactive distress (moral residue)

Question 16

Initial distress:

Answer 16

experienced in real times as the situation unfolds.

Question 17

Reactive distress (moral residue):

Answer 17

Arises after the situation has passed and involves lingering feelings about ones failure to act on the initial disstress. Associated with a loss of personal moral identity and with long-term adverse.

Question 18

Moral agency

Answer 18

having capacity to direct his actions to some ethical end -

make moral judgments and to act upon them, despite personal or institutional constraint.

Question 19

Moral distress consequences:

Answer 19

Emotional (fear, guilt, cynicism, depression..)
Spiritual (crisis of faith, loss of self-worth)
Physical (GI disturbance, fatigue, headaches)
Behavioral (nighmares, addictive behaviors, defensiveness, depersonalization)

Question 20

Moral resilience

Answer 20

Ethics education
Creating morally habitable work environments (supportive networks, fostering workplace climates based on trust and openness)
Developing self-reflection
Better inter-disciplinary communication (supportive peer communication)

Question 21

To address moral distress as nruse:

Answer 21

Recognize symptoms of moral distress
Reflect and be curious
Reconnect to your original purpose and intention for being a nurses
Speak up about your ethical concerns
commit to your personal well-being.