Ethics in Nursing Flashcards
Acts of doing good - refers to taking positive actions to help others
beneficience
The freedom to make your own choices
self-determiniation
A written expression of a person’s wishes about their medical care, especially during a terminal disease/end of life care.
Advanced Directive
The avoidance of harm or hurt
non - maleficence
Dedication, loyalty, truthfulness, advocay, and fairness to patients - keeping promises
Fidelity
Appropriate professional behavior that serves to maintain the trust between patients and nurses and to maintain nurse’s good standing within their profession
Boundaries
Meaningful information must be disclosed even if the provider does not believe the information will be beneficial
Informed consent
Nurses are practicing this behavior when they try to identify unmet patient needs and then follow-up to address the needs appropriately
Advocacy
The legal document with the most strength, a written directive in which a designated person is allowed to make healthcare decisions for a patient
Durable Power of Attorney
A virtue that guides individuals in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions
Social Justice
Rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad = the should of human behavior
Ethics
The right to perform certain activities because they conform to the accepted standards or ideas within the community
Moral right
What are the 3 distinct resources in a nurses toolkit in clinical practice as it regards ethical issues in clinical practice?
NPA, ANA code of ethics, Institutional Hospital ethics committee
Personal beliefs about the worth of given ideas, attitudes, custom, or object that set standards that influence behavior
Values
Provides standards of behavior
Morals
