The Ethics Of Kidney Transplantation

Question 1

Define autonomy

Answer 1

Capacity to think and decide and act on the basis of such thought and decision

Informed consent key

Question 2

Define beneficence

Answer 2

Duty to promote health and welfare of the patient

Act in best interest of patient and may conflict with autonomy

Question 3

Define non - maleficence

Answer 3

Duty not to harm anyone

Protection of patients from harm

Question 4

What issues concern the principle of non maleficence?

Answer 4

Withdrawing or withholding life sustaining treatment
Treatment of terminally ill patients
Provision of futile treatment

Question 5

Define justice

Answer 5

Moral obligation to act on the basis of fair adjudication between competing interests

Question 6

Define utility

Answer 6

Term of the degree to which an action produces good and avoid evil

Question 7

What are the 4 stages of decision making model?

Answer 7

Gather relevant information
Prioritise and ascribe values
Generate options
Select option and action