UNIT 4 Flashcards
Often share intimate struggles and complexities of life and death decisions with patients and families within any given clinical unit, practice setting, or designated role.
Nurses
From breakthrough in genetics, genomics, precision medicine, and other scientific areas test nurses' ability to keep pace with the ethical issues often associated with theses technological developments in both clinical care and research
Knowledge generation
Arise in everyday nursing practice
Ethical issues
May be concerns affecting the nurse-patient relationship
Ethical issues
Are tenets that given our direct action
Ethical principles
They are widely accepted and generally are based on the humane aspects of society.
Ethical principle
Are principled; they reflect what is best for the client and society
Ethical decisions
Can be used as guidelines in analysing dilemmas
Ethical principles
Serve as justification for the resolution of ethical problems
Ethical principle
The duty to do good to others and to maintain balance between benefits
Beneficence
The principles of doing no harm
Nonmaleficence
Always work within your scope of practice
Nonmaleficence
Keep areas safe from hazards
Nonmaleficence
The principles of fairness that is served when an individual is given that which he or she is due, owed, deserves, or can or legitimately claim.
Justice
Treat every clients with respect and courtesy.
Beneficence
Respect co-workers
Beneficence
Treat client's equally, regardless of economic, racial or social background.
Justice