EXAM 1 NUR 110 Flashcards
Nurse must be fair when distributing care
Justice
Nurse does the good and the right thing for patients.
Benficence
Nurse respects patient right to make decisions about their healthcare.
Autonomy
Nurse is faithful and true to keeping promises
Fidelity
Nurses does no harm.
Nonmalificence
Personal right and wrong.
Morals
Nurse is completely truthful with patients
Veracity
Right or wrong depends on consequence of action
utilitarian
action is rightt or wrong depending on a rule-not consequences
Deontologic
Combination of utilitarian and deontologic
Principal-based approach
Non-negotiable nursing ethical standards
Nursing code of ethics
Putting yourself in another’s circumstances
Empathy
Two conflicting courses of action
Dilemma
Providing care using the code of ethics and reporting errors.
Integrity
One’s own belief in ability to reach a goal
self-efficacy
threat or attempt to make bodily contact
assault
Willful, purposeful, misrepresentation
Fraud
Written defamation of character
libel
Assault that is carried out contact made
battery
Spoken defamation of character
slander
Consent must always be in this form.
Written
Can sign when patient is unable to sign.
Person legally responsible for patient.
Person responsible for obtaining informed consent
person doing the procedure or research.
Nurses role in documentation of consent in chart
confirm presence