Final exam Flashcards
Describe organizational ethics.
Involves resource allocation, business development, access to care, disagreement about treatment decisions.
It is applied ethics.
Being conscious of similarities/contrasts between different cultural groups + understanding in which ways culture can affect different persons approach to health, illness, healing.
A. Cultural Awareness
B. Cultural Sensitivity
C. Cultural Competence
D. Cultural Safety
A. Cultural awareness
Being aware + understanding the characteristics, values, perceptions of your own culture and the way this may impact your approach to patient from other cultures
A. Cultural Awareness
B. Cultural Sensitivity
C. Cultural Competence
D. Cultural Safety
B. Cultural sensitivity
Refers to the attitudes, knowledge, and skills of HCP. Blend knowledge, conviction, and capacities of action.
A. Cultural Awareness
B. Cultural Sensitivity
C. Cultural Competence
D. Cultural Safety
C. Cultural competences
Understanding the power imbalances that are inherent & the institutional discrimination. Understanding culture as context dependent + power lead/privileges + the way history impacts on the communities.
A. Cultural Awareness
B. Cultural Sensitivity
C. Cultural Competence
D. Cultural Safety
D. Cultural safety
In which step is cultural humility achieved?
A. Cultural Awareness
B. Cultural Sensitivity
C. Cultural Competence
D. Cultural Safety
D. Cultural safefy
Name the 8 ethical theories relating to normative ethics.
- Virtue ethics
- Deontology
- Utilitarianism
- Principlism
- Feminist ethics
- Care ethics
- Narrative Ethics
- Casuistry
What are the 4 fields of ethics
- Metaethics
- Normative ethics
- Descriptive ethics
- Applied ethics
Field of ethics that looks at deep philosophical questions. Defines moral terms; asks questions. Focuses on analysis of meaning + creating justification for actions and inference from moral concepts
Metaethics
Field of ethics that focuses on formulation and defence of basic principles, values, virtues and ideals governing moral behaviour. “What make someone good or bad?”. Justice as norm.
Normative ethics
Field of ethics that focuses on factual descriptions and observations. Empirical analysis of what people actually do. Does not try to answer what is good or how best to live. Describes the current reality.
Descriptive ethics
Field of ethics that focuses on the practical application of ethics to specific contexts. Poses questions such as “in real life and specific contexts, what is the right thing to do”
Applied ethics
Name some ways to develop ethical fitness
- know one’s strength.
- be aware of the professional code of ethics
- understand how the contexts of health care and nursing influence moral distress
- identify strategies that develop ethical fitness
- promote interventions that are in the best interest of patient and families
What kind of ethics issue is the following example:
How do we fairly allocate ICU beds if there is resource scarcity during a pandemic?
Organizational ethics
What kind of ethics issue is the following example:
Business development: is it ethical for hospitals to take money from having fast food restaurants on site?
Organizational ethics issues
What kind of ethics issue is the following example:
Access to care for the uninsured: a patient without RAMQ requires dialysis. What is the responsibility of the hospital?
Organizational ethics issues
What kind of ethics issue is the following example:
Disagreement about treatment decisions: Nurses in the ICU have different opinions on withdrawing treatment at the end-of-life. What is the hospital’s policy?
Organizational ethics issues
What branch of ethics is the following definition for:
The organization’s efforts to define its own core values and mission, identify areas in which important values come into conflict, seek the best possible resolution of these conflicts, and manage its own performance to ensure that it acts in accord with espoused values
Organizational ethics
What are the 7 values of the nursing profession as outlined by the OIIQ
- Integrity
- Respect of the person
- Professional autonomy
- Professional competence
- Excellence in care
- Professional collaboration
- Humanity
Which ethical theory focuses on the moral agent?
“What kind of person am I?”
“What kind of person should I be?”
Virtue ethics (subset of normative ethics)
Name some critiques of virtue ethics.
No clear guide as to how to act.
Focuses on agent’s own character
Not culturally relative.
Lacks guidance on how to become virtuous
Which ethical theory does this describe:
Non-consequentialist.
Conforming to a moral law or principle.
Actions should be motivated by duty to be right and good.
Deontology (normative ethics)
What are some critiques of deontologism
Outcomes/contexts not considered.
Conflicting duties?
Who makes the rules and who do they apply to?
Dismisses moral value of actions motivated by emotions or good will.
What ethical theory does this describe:
What is good? What is right?
Actions are right based on what produces the most good.
Actions are right/wrong based on consequences.
Egalitarian.
Doing nothing is an action.
Utilitarianism