Midterms Flashcards
self-determination and free from coercion
Autonomy
concept of being honest
Veracity
do good; kindness and charity
Beneficence
do no harm
Non-Maleficence
faithfulness to a person beliefs or cause
Fidelity
principle of keeping the secrets of patients secure and other personal information
Confidentiality
patient has the right to fair and important treatment
Justice
valuing and respecting patient’s priority and self-determination
Stewardship
use to justify action that have intended good effect and unintended bad effect
double effect
evil occurs when a person’s action unintentionally help another person do something wrong
Material and Formal Effect
the whole is greater than its part
Totality
sense of community among nursing collegues
Solidarity
the principle that when faced with selecting from two moral options, the least immoral one should be chosen
Lesser Evil
little voice; personal self
Conscience
this focuses only on laws and obligations, commands, in such way that there is hardly any place for the conscience to evaluate and decide
Heteronomous
totally subjective, which ignores the law and determines by itself what is right and wrong
Autonomous
Concepts of Conscience
Heteronomous and Autonomous
Levels of Conscience
- Antecedent actual conscience
- Concomitant actual conscience
- Consequent actual conscience
process of making judgement in conscience before performing moral acts
Antecedent actual conscience
our actual awareness of being morally responsible for the goodness or the badness of a particular act which we are carrying out
Concomitant Actual conscience
the process of reflection on one’s moral responsibility relative to past action
Consequent actual conscience
Qualities of Conscience
- Personal Freedom
- Objective Values
- Moral Attitude
- Degree of Certitude
Qualities of a fully mature and responsible conscience
- free
- correct
- clear
- certain
Qualities of a fully mature and responsible conscience
- free
- correct
- clear
- certain
Dimension of Conscience
- General sense of value
- Search to discover the right course of action
- Actual concrete judgment
one is able to a personal moral stand with regard to a particular attitude in a way that is unintended
Free
has obstacle or influence that hinders
Unfree
one’s subjective perception of conscience are in conformity with the objective moral value
correct
lack of conformity between the objective values and the moral demands that they carry with them
erroneous
one is error through one’s own fault and is therefore responsible for such an erroneous state of conscience
culpable
one is in error through no fault of one’s own
inculpable
careless in its effort to clearly perceive and internalize the particular moral value
Lax
when the conscience ends to judge moral obligations too harshly
stritct
conscience that tends to judge sin to be present where in fact there are none
scrupulous
tends to be self-righteous as for one’s own moral evaluation is concerned while tending to be judgemental towards other
Pharisaical
confidently and freely acts and with due regard for percieving
clear
worst type of conscience because it has low sensitivity to sin and God
Callous
one judge it to be equally wrong to act in a particular way
Perplexed
the conscience is able to reach a degree of certainty in its own formality of moral judgement so that all practical doubts are resolve
Certain
the conscience arrives at a point where it finds security in its own formation of a moral attitude
Probable
lacks of sufficient evidence to make or leave judgement
doubtful
