Unit 1 - Health Care Philosiphies and Ethics Flashcards
What are the seven core ethics to consider when making a health care decision?
- Use of intervention technologies
- Informed consent
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-Maleficence
- Justice
- Economic consequences (personal and communal)
What are the nine Rights of a Patient?
Patients have the right to:
- Be fully informed to all treatment options
- Appoint a substitute decision-maker (proxy)
- Recognition of an advanced health care plan
- A second opinion
- Pain and symptom management
- Refuse treatment
- Refuse food or drink
- End your own life
- Assisted death
Advanced health care plan
A document one makes provision for health care decisions in the event that, in the future, one is unable to make those decisions
Autonomy
The right to make informed decisions about ones own health
Beneficence
A fundamental ethical value that is defined as an act of mercy, and kindness with recognition of moral obligation
- prevent or remove harms
Dialysis
The process of removing waste products and excess fluid from the body
DNR
“Do not resuscitate” , is a legal order written in a hospital to allow for a natural death
Hospice
A home providing care for the sick, especially the terminally ill
Informed consent
Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, given by a patient to a doctor
Medical aid in dying
A mentally capable person who has a prognosis of six months or less requests p, obtains and self-administers medication that brings about peaceful death
Non-maleficence
Non-harming or inflicting the least harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome
Palliative care
Improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering.
Proxy
The authority to represent someone else, and make health care decision in case of the person being unable to make their own
Justice
Just behaviour or treatment
Alternative medicine
Any of a range of medical therapies that are not regarded as orthodox by the medical profession, such as herbalism, homeopathy, and acupuncture