Unit 1 - Health Care Philosiphies and Ethics Flashcards

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What are the seven core ethics to consider when making a health care decision?

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  1. Use of intervention technologies
  2. Informed consent
  3. Autonomy
  4. Beneficence
  5. Non-Maleficence
  6. Justice
  7. Economic consequences (personal and communal)
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What are the nine Rights of a Patient?

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Patients have the right to:

  1. Be fully informed to all treatment options
  2. Appoint a substitute decision-maker (proxy)
  3. Recognition of an advanced health care plan
  4. A second opinion
  5. Pain and symptom management
  6. Refuse treatment
  7. Refuse food or drink
  8. End your own life
  9. Assisted death
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Advanced health care plan

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A document one makes provision for health care decisions in the event that, in the future, one is unable to make those decisions

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Autonomy

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The right to make informed decisions about ones own health

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Beneficence

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A fundamental ethical value that is defined as an act of mercy, and kindness with recognition of moral obligation
- prevent or remove harms

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Dialysis

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The process of removing waste products and excess fluid from the body

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DNR

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“Do not resuscitate” , is a legal order written in a hospital to allow for a natural death

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Hospice

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A home providing care for the sick, especially the terminally ill

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Informed consent

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Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, given by a patient to a doctor

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Medical aid in dying

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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

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Non-maleficence

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Non-harming or inflicting the least harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome

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Palliative care

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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.

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Proxy

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The authority to represent someone else, and make health care decision in case of the person being unable to make their own

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Justice

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Just behaviour or treatment

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Alternative medicine

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Any of a range of medical therapies that are not regarded as orthodox by the medical profession, such as herbalism, homeopathy, and acupuncture

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Clinical trial

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Research studies that explore whether a medical strategy, treatment, or device is safe and effective in humans

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Complementary medicine

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Any of a range of medical therapies that fall behind the scope of scientific medicine but may be used alongside it in the treatment of disease and ill health.
ex.) acupuncture and osteopathy

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Indigenous health care

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Indigenous health refers to the physical, cultural, social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal

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Traditional medicine

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Systems of medicine developed before the era of modern medicine, based on cultural beliefs and practices handed down from generation to generation

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Western medicine

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A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals treat symptoms and disease using drugs, radiation, or surgery

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Ontology

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A set of concept and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them

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Epistemology

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The theory of knowledge, especially with regards to its methods, validity and scope.
- distinguishes justice belief from opinion