MODULE 11 Flashcards
What is the practical science of the morality of human conduct?
Ethics
Ethics as a ________, deals with a complete and systematically arranged body of data.
Science
Ethics is ______ because it is related to the dictates of reason, how it should be.
Moral
Ethics defines _______________ because it deals with voluntary and free human activity and how one should act.
Human Conduct
True or False:
Ethics is NORMATIVE, not DESCRIPTIVE.
TRUE
The study of ethics can be divided into 3 which is?
Health ethics, Professional ethics, and Bioethics.
What term usually refers to the moral status of an individual as an agent or person not only genetically human and biologically alive but as also bearing the moral rights and obligations of membership in the social community?
Personhood
Biologically, a person possesses the
genetic code of the _____ _________, thus, with the potentiality to be a human person from the beginning of life.
Homo Sapiens
__________________ a person is with consciousness, superior intelligence (the ability to reason), and free will.
Philosophically
__________________, personhood is one’s ability to have relationships
with other human beings and the special relationship human beings have with God.
Theologically
All people have the same 4 fundamental rights:
Life, Truth, Minimum healthcare, Justice.
A person has an ___________________, a single final end (eternal happiness in union with our Creator).
Ultimate Destiny
To fulfill this ultimate destiny, one has needs that must be met. WHAT ARE THOSE 5 NEEDS?
Biological, Psychological, Social, Spiritual, and Creative
Individual community members are in a ______________________ of giving and taking with the community.
Reciprocal Relationship
The ___________________ is an outward expression of a person’s choices. It is a product of knowledge of what it is about and what it means, and freedom to do or leave it undone without coercion or constraint.
Human Act
What are the three (3) factors determining the human act?
Object
Circumstance
End
What term defines the specific action, the means, what the person chooses to do now, and the proximate end of the act.
Object
What term means the purpose of the agent, the movie, the ulterior end for whose sake one chooses to do this here and now.
The end
What term describes who,
where, by whom, when of the context of the action.
Circumstances
What is a personal practical judgment of reason upon a particular individual act as good and to be performed or as evil and to be avoided?
Conscience
What are the 3 dimensions of conscience?
General moral awareness
Search for specific moral values
The Concrete Judgment
What dimension of conscience is defined?
Awareness is the general sense of value characteristic of the human person–we are aware that we should do good and avoid evil. People argue about right and wrong–a “sure sign” of this general awareness, as there would be no debate unless we had this experience. So, this is the kind of conscience we are “born” with.
General Moral Awareness
What dimension of conscience is defined?
It is the actual “concrete” judgment we make regarding an immediate action. Conscience makes specific decisions.
The concrete Judgement
What dimension of conscience is defined?
It is conscience’s (our) search for what really is a good course of action and what is not. We look at human behavior and the world
to determine this.
Search for Specific Values
What term pertains to philosophies that govern the conduct of a person or group practicing a profession?
Professional Ethics
What are the 4 criteria to indicate a profession?
Specific training
Autonomy
Public service
Ethical codes
According to _______________ of a profession, knowing is systematic knowledge and intellect, doing is a technical skill and trained capacity, and helping is consolidating
knowledge and skill to work in the service of others. All three are elements of a profession.
Merton’s values
Barber considered four essential attributes of professional behavior that includes:
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High degree of generalized and systematic knowledge,
Primary orientation of the community interest rather than individual self-interest,
A high degree of self-control or behavior through codes of ethics internalized in the process of work socialization and through voluntary
associations organized and operated by the work specialists themselves,
System of reward that is primarily a set of symbols of work achievement and thus ends in themselves, not means to some end of individual self-interest.
What scale of professionalism considered the professional practice as a full-time occupation. Professionals are committed to a calling; that is, they treat their
professions “as an enduring set of normative and behavioral expectations?’
Moore and Rosenblum
What is health according to WHO (1975)?
“Health is the state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
What is a special calling of service characterized by a trusting
and caring relationship that cannot be measured in monetary terms.
Healthcare profession
True or False:
Healthcare profession is a career, not a vocation.
False
- The healthcare profession is not a career (like accountancy or engineering) … it is a vocation (priesthood)…
What is the obligation to provide healthcare belonging to the
individual patient, the own healthcare professional, or society?
Health Provision
Who is one who passed a government examination and pays an annual license to practice. He is committed to healthcare.
Healthcare professional/ Healthcare Provider
What do you call the moral excellence that puts order into
life and makes both the possessor and the act good.
Virtues
What term refers to the faithfulness to trust and promise.
Fidelity
What is the basis of the patient-healthcare professional relationship, the research subject-researcher-public relationship, and the student-teacher relationship?
Trust
What term refers to the combination of truthfulness and integrity?
Honesty
What term under honesty avoids
communicating wrong or incomplete information likely to mislead or to deceive?
Truthfulness
What term under honesty refers to being true to oneself or wholeness?
Integrity
What is recognizing one’s capabilities and limitations? It is accepting deserved praise graciously and denying undeserved praise.
Humility
What is feeling the loss/suffering of another with an attempt beyond the obligation to help or avoid that loss/suffering?
Compassion
What is the constant will to give another his due. It is adjusting what is owed to the specific needs of the person, even if those needs do not strictly fit what is owed?
Justice
What is doing what is right without undue fear. It is resoluteness, being true to one’s calling despite the risk of being wrong or private guilt. It relates to heroism.
Courage
What inclines one to seek God’s help in everything one does? It recognizes that prayer provides consolation, encouragement, and strength.
Prayerfulness
