UNIT 7: Basic Ethical Principles Flashcards
It is a general judgment that serves as a justification for particular ethical prescriptions and evaluations of human actions.
Basic Ethical Principle
It is known as the commitment to oneself.
Stewardship
According to WHO, it is the careful and responsible management of the well-being of the population.
Stewardship
From a paternalistic approach to care towards encouraging and empowering individuals to take increasing responsibility for their healthcare outcomes.
Stewardship
It involves valuing and respecting patients’ priorities and self -determination.
Stewardship
It encompass the ethical responsibility to act on behalf of others.
Stewardship
What are the core values of ethical nurses?
honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, objectivity and impartiality
How can a nurse become stewards to work?
- Patient-population centeredness
- Safety for patients and healthcare personnel
- The needs of an aging workforce
- Increased autonomy for advanced nurse practitioners
- Increased respect for the contributions made by professional nurses
- Clarification of the caring work of the nurse
- Enhancement of the collaborative practice of the multidisciplinary healthcare team
How to become effective stewards?
through mentors and role models
This basic principle prioritizes the good of the entire person?
Totality
Views a person as an integration of biological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual dimensions.
Totality
The well-being of the whole person must be included in any therapeutic intervention.
Integrity and Dignity
Duty to preserve the whole human person
Integrity
Duty to preserve intact the physical component of the integrated bodily and spiritual nature of human life.
Integrity
Suggest that the entire patient should be considered when planning care
Integrity and Totality
It aims to provide specific guidelines for determining when it is morally permissible to act in pursuit of a good end in full knowledge that the action will also bring about bad results.
Principle of double effect
What are the four conditions for the principle of double effect
- action must be morally good or neutral
- the bad result could not be meant to achieve a good result
- the motivation for acting must be solely to achieve good results.
- The good result must at least be as significant as the bad.
Provides justification in which process is based on the intended outcome of pain and symptom relief and the opportunity of benefit and harm
Principle of Double Effect
The participation of one agent in the activity of another agent to produce a particular effect or share a joint activity.
Cooperation
This becomes problematic when the action of the primary agent is morally wrong.
Cooperation
Characterized by their acting in mutuality or unilaterality and in or out of pace with each other.
Cooperation
What is the top priority in nursing?
Patient Care
Can be used with the issue of sterilization.
Cooperation
Formal cooperation in an evil act is never allowed. True or False
True
A sense of community among nursing colleagues seems to rely on this; whatever affects one affects another.
Solidarity
Invites us to consider how to relate to each other in community.
Solidarity
May contribute to the development of colleagues’ competence and increase the quality of nursing practice.
Solidarity
It is a choice being made of a persons free will, as opposed to being made as the result of coercion or duress
Voluntariness
Is present in human act willed in itself
Direct
is present in that human act which is the foreseen result of another act directly willed.
Indirect
Is present in the human act of doing, performing
Positive
Is present in the human act of omitting or refraining from doing
Negative
An act that is not intended for its own sake but which merely follows a regrettable consequence of an action action directly willed.
Indirect voluntary action
