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
Application of ethical theories and principles to problems in healthcare
Biothics/clinical ethics
A situation that requires one to choose between two equally balanced alternatives
Dilemma
Refers to a patients’ independence and right to make choices regarding own health care
Autonomy
Most fundamental human right
Respect for person
refers to fairness
Justice
Strong reason for a course of action may be balances by equally powerful countervailing arguements
Ethical Dilemmas
Accuracy or conformity to truth
Veracity
Legal term, can be decided in court; an area frequently declared relevant in areas other than health care
Competency
A clinical term to health decisions and is assessed by clinicians in a healthcare setting
Capacity
