Legal Aspects And Ethics Flashcards
Foundation of ethics is based on?
Expected behavior of a certain group in relationship to what is considered right and wrong
What are values and beliefs held by a person on the guide your behavior and decision-making?
Morals
Ability of the client to make personal decisions even when those decisions might not be in the clients own best interest & has concepts of freedom?
Autonomy
What is care that is in the best interest of your patient / goodness, kindness and charity?
Beneficence
Nurses obligation to avoid causing harm to the client?
Nonmalefience
You are to keep your promise to your patient about the care that was offered?
Fidelity
What is fair treatment and manners related to physical and psychosocial care in the use of resources, also determines how social burdens and benefits ought to be allocated?
Justice
Nurses duty to tell the truth, truth telling?
Veracity
What are three ways you can make an ethical decision?
Deontological, Telological, & Situational
Decision-making based on an obligation of duty and what one considers to be right vs. wrong, respect to the patient/all life is worthy of respect?
Deontological
Decision-making based on what provides the greatest good for the greatest number of individuals. That which causes a good outcome is good action. May not always be the happy one?
Teleological
Decisions made in one situation cannot be generalized to another situation?
Situational
How do I determine who owns the problem?
Determine the facts of the situation and get in there to investigate. After a course of action has been taken, evaluate the outcome. Call in ethics committee
Nurse practice act?
Every state must have their own and always know policy and procedures at the hospital you are working at
What must you always have posted somewhere in the facility?
Patient Bill of Rights
Peer assisted voluntary program we’re nurses who are chemically impaired can go?
Chemically impaired professional
Refers to the situation where the nurse moves beyond a professional relationship and becomes personally involved with the patient in their life?
Boundary violations
What is the most common boundary violation?
Sexual misconduct
Person who practice has deteriorated because of chemical abuse?
Chemically impaired professional
Patient Bill of Rights
- Information disclosure
- Choice of providers in plans
- Access to emergency services
- Participation in treatment decisions
- Respect and non-discrimination
- Confidentiality of health information
- Complaints and appeals
Nurses must commit to a virtuous value system and examine their own values
Examining value systems
The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worse, and unique attributes of every person?
Provision 1
The nurses primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population?
Provision 2
The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient?
Provision 3
The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes actions are consistent with the obligations to promote health and to provide optimal care?
Provision 4
The nurse does the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain confidence, and continue personal and professional growth?
Provision 5
The nurse, through individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are conducive to safe, quality healthcare?
Provision 6
The nurse, in all rolls and settings, advances the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and the generation of both nursing and health policy?
Provision 7
The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities?
Provision 8
The profession of nursing, collectively through it’s professional organizations, most articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principle of social justice into nursing and health policy?
Provision 9
