NUR351: Ethics & Values; Legal Issues Flashcards

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What is the definition of moral behavior?

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Behavior that is in accordance with custom or tradition and usually reflects personal or religious beliefs

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What is the definition of ethics?

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A systematic study of what is right and wrong conduct in situations that involve issues of values and morals

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What is nursing ethics?

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A subset of bioethics which refers to the ethical questions that arise from the practice of nursing

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Why should nurses study ethics?

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  • you will encounter ethical questions frequently in work
  • ethics is central to nursing and nursing care
  • multidisciplinary input is important
  • ethical knowledge is necessary for professional competence
  • ethical reasoning is necessary for nursing to be taken seriously
  • ethical proficiency is essential for providing holistic care
  • nurses should advocate for patients
  • studying ethics will help you to make better decisions
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What is the definition of advocacy?

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The communication and defense of of the rights and interests of another

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What is the definition of moral agency or ethical agency?

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The ability of nurses to base their practice on professional standards of ethical conduct and to participate in ethical decision making.

To have choices and responsibility for their actions

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Moral distress

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The stress caused by situational pressures that prevent a nurse from acting on their moral decisions

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What is the definition of impaired nursing practice

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When a nurses ability to perform the essential functions of nursing is diminished by chemical dependence on drugs, alcohol or mental illness

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What are some Societal factors that give rise to ethical problems?

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  • Increased consumer awareness
  • Technological advances
  • Multicultural population
  • Cost containment
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What is the definition of a value?

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A belief that you have about the worth of something

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What is the definition of morals?

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Private,personal, or group standards of right and wrong

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What factors affect moral decisions?

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Values, beliefs and beliefs

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What is the definition of a belief

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Something that one accepts as true

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What is the definition of personal value system?

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Set of values that you have reflected on and chosen that will help you to lead a good life.

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What is value neutrality?

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An attempt to understand our own values regarding an issue and to know when to put them aside, if necessary, to become non-judge mental when providing care to clients

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What factors affect moral decisions?

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Values, beliefs and beliefs

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What is the autonomy model?

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Emphasizes patient autonomy as the highest value

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What is the patient benefit model?

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Assists in decision making for the incompetent or incapacitated patient by using substituted judgement. I.e. What would Alan want if he were capable of making the choice?

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What is the social justice model?

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Helps make decisions based on broad social issues involving the whole institution, rather than a single patient issue.

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From what sources are laws derived?

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  • The constitutions of federal and state governments
  • Federal and state legislatures
  • Administrative agencies
  • Courts
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What are the moral principles?

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Autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, fidelity,veracity, and justice

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What is autonomy?

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a person’s right to choose and his ability to act on that choice

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What is nonmaleficence?

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the dual duty to do no harm and to prevent harm

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What is beneficence?

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the duty to do or promote good

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What is fidelity?

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the obligation to keep promises.

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What is justice?

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the obligation to be fair. There are three kinds
Distributive justice
Compensatory justice
Procedural justice

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What is a moral framework?

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systems of thought that are the basis for the differing perspectives people have in ethical situations.

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What is consequentialism?

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theories where the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of the act rather than on the act itself

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What is deontology?

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a theory where decisions are based on moral rules and unchanging principles

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What is utilitarianism?

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states that an act must result in the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

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Feminist Ethics

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Persons connected, interdependent, cultural, historical context of power structures.
Autonomy is relational.

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Virtue Theory

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What ought to be. Virtuous character and proper motivation leads to moral choices.
“Golden mean” (not too good it’s reckless)

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What are the 5 CNO components to a therapeutic relationship?

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  1. Trust
  2. Respect
  3. Professional intimacy
  4. Empathy
  5. Power
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What are the 5 levels of care?

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  1. Health promotion
  2. Disease and injury prevention
  3. Diagnosis of treatment
    Primary - first contact
    Secondary - hospital/home
    Tertiary - hospital
  4. Rehabilitation
  5. Supportive
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CNO

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  1. Entry to Practice Competencies

2. Professional Standards (NCLEX & Jurisprudence Exam)

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CNA

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Code of ethics (aspirational AND regulatory)
Certifications in specialties
Global presence

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RNAO

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Best practice guidelines

Lobbies government

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ONA

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Union representatives

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Ethical uncertainty

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Inability to articulate what the problem is

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Ethical problems

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Unable to determine the proper solution

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Ethical dilemmas

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A conflict between two sets of human values, both of which are judged to be good but neither of which can be fully served.

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Ethical/moral distress

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Arises when nurses are unable to act according to their own moral judgement

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Ethical residue

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Moral values compromised

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Ethical disengagement

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Disregard ethical commitment

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Ethical courage

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Stand firm on principle in face of fear or threat

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What are the 7 CNO values (2009)?

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  1. Client well-being
  2. Client choice
  3. Privacy & confidentiality
  4. Respect for life
  5. Maintaining commitment (oneself, colleagues, nursing profession, team members, and quality practice settings)
  6. Truthfulness
  7. Fairness
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Values formation

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Influenced by social, relational, cultural, and contextual factors

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Bioethics

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Obligation-based, outcome-oriented and based on reason.

- guided by autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice

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Relational Ethics

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Relationships are basis of ethics in nursing. Ethical understandings are formed in and emerge from relationships.

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Medical futility

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A medical treatment that is considered impossible or unlikely to achieve its therapeutic goal or suggests that there is something problematic about the goal.

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Advanced Care Planning (ACP)

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Multidimensional process that involves health care providers in discussion with patients to ensure that they clearly understand their illness, it’s trajectory, and available treatment options.

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What are the 4 CNO Practice Standards?

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  1. Therapeutic communication
  2. Client-centred care
  3. Protecting client from abuse
  4. Maintaining boundaries
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Fiduciary responsibility

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A person with particular knowledge and abilities accepts the trust and confidence of another to act in that person’s best interest.
- asymmetrical relationship

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Values clarification

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Helps articulate priorities

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Values conflict

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Occurs when personal values may be at odds with patients/colleagues/institutions

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What is the LHINs mandate?

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To plan, find, and integrate the health care providers within the 14 geographical areas.

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What are controlled acts?

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Activities that are considered to be potentially harmful if performed by unqualified persons.

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What is emancipatory reflexivity?

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Challenging our assumptions that were held to be true, and looking at our values

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CNA Code of Ethics

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  1. Safe, compassionate, competent and ethical care
  2. Health and well-being
  3. Informed decision making
  4. Dignity
  5. Privacy and confidentiality
  6. Justice
  7. Accountability
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Canada’s Health Act

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  1. Public administration (non-profit)
  2. Comprehensiveness
  3. Universality
  4. Portability (no costs bw provinces)
  5. Accessibility
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Health Insurance Act of Ontario

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Insured for hospitals/health facilities, medically necessary devices rendered by physicians

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Local Health Systems Integration Act

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14 LIHNs “plan, fund, and integrate”

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Regulated Health Professional Act

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  • openness and responsiveness
  • greater consumer choice
  • public participation in regulation
  1. Scope of practice
  2. controlled acts
  3. Health regulatory colleges
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Nursing Act

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  1. Scope of practice
  2. Categories and certificates
  3. Entry requirements
  4. Title protection
  5. Controlled acts
  6. Professional misconduct regulations
  7. Self-reporting obligations
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CNO Entry-to-Practice Competencies

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  • relational skills
  • honesty, integrity and respect
  • appropriate professional boundaries
  • client privacy, confidentiality and security
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6 P’s of social media use

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Profesional 
Positive 
Patient/person free
Protect yourself
Privacy 
Pause before you post
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HwalthCare Consent Act (HCCA) 1996

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  • promoting individual autonomy and communication
  • HCPs do not have authority to make treatment decisions (except in emergency)

Decisions for:

  • specific treatment plan
  • admission to care facility
  • personal assistance services
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Substitute Decisions Act (SDA)

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Substitute decision-maker (SDM)

HCCA Hierarchy:

  1. Courts appointed guardian of personal care
  2. Attorney for personal care
  3. Representative appointed by CCB
  4. Spouse, common law spouse or partner
  5. Parents and children
  6. Brothers and sisters
  7. Relative by blood, marriage or adoption
  8. Public Guardian and Trustee IF
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Primary ethical principle underlying HCCA

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Autonomy

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Conditions for consent (CNO)

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  1. Informed
  2. Voluntary, not coerced
  3. Not obtained through fraud or misrepresentation
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Informed consent

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  • nature of treatment
  • risks and side effects
  • alternative courses of action
  • likely consequences of not having the treatment
  • Capable and Competent
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Assault

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Verbal or physical act that creates fear of imminent harmful contact
Does not require actual contact

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Battery

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Intentionally physical contact without the person’s consent

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Invasion of Privacy

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Free from unwanted intrusion into private life

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False imprisonment

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Inappropriate or unjustified use of restraints

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Negligence

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Conduct that does not meet the standard of care established by law

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Unintentional Negligence

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Committed by inattention, thoughtlessness, or carelessness

Performing a procedure bit educated in.

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Near miss

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Incident did not reach the patient, act of omission or commission

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No-harm incident

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An incident that reached the patient, but no discernible harm resulted

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Culture of blame

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Focuses on the person

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Culture of discovery

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Focused on the system features that led to the error

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Swiss Cheese Model

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  • each slice is a “barrier” out in place to make health care safer
  • each barrier has number of weaknesses
  • constant motion
  • multiple factors are involved, especially with complex processes and structures
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Lack of agency/fiduciary concern

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  • clinician doesn’t advocate for best interests

- no intervention in the patient’s behalf

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Care erosion

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Gradual decline in quality of care, gradual increase in violations of standards, inconsistencies between professional values and practice, decrease in compassionate care

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Cognitive Dissonance

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Response to inconsistencies within our thinking and between behaviour and thinking

Dissonances - feelings of embarrassment, Shane, regret, anger at oneself

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Patient advocacy identity

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Precious life experience

Role modeling

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Consequences to the patient and participants

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  • knowledge if potential harm, moral distress of not acting

- consequences: praise or isolation

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Impact of key individuals

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Reinforcing behaviour

Praised by mentors or isolated on unit

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Interactionist Model

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Nursing as an interactive interpersonal process

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Needs Theory

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Basic human psychosocial needs. Nurses help gain independence as rapidly as possible.

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Systems Theory

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The person is an adaptive system in constant interaction with environment. Nurse’s goal to promote modes of adaptation that support overall health.

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Simultaneity Theory

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Persons as an “irreducible whole”. The individual as “an embodied spirit”. Transpersonal transcendent evolving consciousness.
Unity of the mind body and spirit.
Person-nature-universe as oneness, connected

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Critical thinking competencies

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  1. Noticing the situation
  2. Developing a sufficient understanding
  3. Deciding on a course of action
  4. Reflecting on action/outcome
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Propositional/ codified knowledge

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Formal, explicit, derived from research, concerning generalizability

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Non-propositional or personal knowledge

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Informal, implicit, derived primarily though practice

Tacit knowledge

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Tacit knowledge

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Derived primarily through practice

Professionally craft.

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Four sources of knowledge

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  1. Research (qualitative, quantitative)
  2. Clinical experience (Tacit knowledge)
    3 patients, clients and carers (authoritative knowledge)
  3. Local context and environment
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Ostorgosky (2015) Role Perception

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  1. Narrow understanding of the role
    “Fake it until you make it”
  2. Increased confidence in technical skills.
  3. Developing sense of empowerment and moral dimensions of the role
  4. Internalizing “being a nurse”
  5. Refocus on skill mastery with the context of increased complexity “doing it all”
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CNO Practice Standards

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  1. Knowledge - understanding legislation
  2. Leadership - ipe and rights of client
  3. Relationships - protection against client abuse
  4. Professional relationships - sharing knowledge
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Conditions for consent (CNO 2017)

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  1. Related to treatment being proposed
  2. Informed
  3. Voluntary, not coerced
  4. Not obtained through fraud or misrepresentation
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Competence for consent

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Capable of understanding the relevant information and appreciating the consequences of consenting or not to treatment

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Paternalism

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Overriding patient preferences (liberty) for presumed benefit of patient (beneficence vs autonomy).

Knowledge and values if the nurse, SDMs, or HCPs are privileged over the patient’s

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Intentional torts

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  1. Assault
  2. Battery
  3. Invasion of Privacy
  4. False imprisonment
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Unintentional torts

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Negligence

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Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)

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  • supports and extends CNO standards and CNA ethical guidelines
  • balances client’s rights and HCPs need for information in order to provide effective care
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Professional Liability Protection (PLP)

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  • all members are required to hold PLP (CNO)
  • employee may provide the coverage
  • offered by ONA, RNAO
    CNA: Canadian Nurses Protective Society
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Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Systems

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  • ecology and spirituality as foundation
  • Teachings from Elders (intergenerational knowledge)
  • empirical observation and revelation
  • oral and symbolic knowledge transmission
  • technologies developed and sustained by indigenous civilizations
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Structural racism

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The legitimized and normalized spectrum of attitudes, practices and polices that consistently result in chronic continuous substandard outcomes for indigenous people.

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Colonialism

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The development of instituían and policies by settler governments towards indigenous people that resulted in historical and intergenerational trauma

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Cultural competence

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Application of skills, knowledge and attitudes or personal attributes to maximize respectful relationships with diverse populations.

Values: inclusivity, respect, valuing difference

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Cultural Safety

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Promotes equity in health care by addressing root causes of inequities (social determinants of health).

Emphasis on critical self-reflection, critique of structures, discourse, power, relations, and assumptions

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Essentialist

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Culture is objective, static, defined differences between people

Emphasis on cognitive aspects of culture

Minimizes complexities, does not allow for self-reflection

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Constructivist

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Culture as socially constructed, reflecting the values and assumptions of the society.

Dynamic, relational process of shared meanings.