UE 2 Flashcards
refers to the expression of one’s responsibility to take care of, nurture and cultivate what has been entrusted to him.
STEWARDSHIP
In health care practice, it refers to the execution of responsibility of the health care practitioners to look after, provide necessary health care services, and promote the health and life of those entrusted to their care.
STEWARDSHIP
Roles of Nurses as Stewards
Practice of bearing witness or being present to clients.
Preserve and promote what is intrinsically valuable within their environments
Recognize openness to clients by respecting their capacity to be authentic.
Assist clients to express their feelings.
Encourage clients to gain insight into their needs and their potential satisfaction.
Participate in setting visions for health-care organizations that promote the greater
good.
These principles dictates that the well-being of the whole person must be
considered in deciding about any therapeutic intervention or use of technology.
A part exists for the good of the whole and may be sacrificed when necessary to
serve a proportionate good for the whole.
Principle of Totality
refers to everyone’s duty to “preserve a view of the whole human person in which the values of the intellect, will, conscience and fraternity are preeminent”
INTEGRITY
Integrity Types
Anatomical integrity
Functional integrity
refers to the duty to preserve intact the physical component of the integrated bodily and spiritual nature of human life, whereby every part of the human body “exists for the sake of the whole as the imperfect for the sake of the
perfect”.
TOTALITY
Refers to the material or physical integrity of the human body.
Anatomical Integrity
Refers to the systematic efficiency of the human body.
Functional Integrity
Transplanting organs from one living person to another is ethically acceptable provided that the following criteria are met:
- There is a serious need on the part of the recipient that cannot be fulfilled in any other way.
- The functional integrity of the donor as a human person will not be impaired, even though anatomical integrity may suffer.
- The risk taken by the donor as an act of charity is proportionate to the good resulting for the recipient.
- The donor’s and the recipient’s consents are free and informed.
‘usual’ or ‘customary’ for physicians to use them for certain diseases, such as pneumonia, or certain problems, such as malnutrition.
Ordinary Means
‘unusual’ or ‘uncustomary’ for physicians to use them for certain diseases or problems.
Extraordinary Means
Based on an understanding of sexuality as one of the basic traits of a person and must be developed in ways consistent with enhancing human dignity.
Takes note of a humanized sexuality, one that represents the fulfillment of physical and sensual need but also evidenced with love and sacramental mystery
Principle of Personalized Sexuality
The gift of human sexuality must be used in marriage in keeping with its intrinsic, indivisible, specifically human teleology. It should be loving, bodily, pleasurable expression of the complimentary, permanent self-giving of a man and woman to each other, which is open to fruition in perpetuation and expansion of this personal communion through the family they beget and educate.
Principle of Personalized Sexuality
Refers to anatomic sex, male or female
Sex
Refers to anatomic structures, called sex organs or sexual organs, that play a role in reproduction or sexual pleasure.
Sexual
Refers to physical activities involving our sex organs for purposes of reproduction, or pleasure
Having sex
Refers to social or cultural categories.
Gender