Unit 8: Major Bioethical Principles Flashcards
Respect a person’s freedom to choose what is right for them
Autonomy
Treat and provide care fairly to all patients
Justice
All choices for a patient are made with the intent to do good
Beneficence
Do no harm
Non-maleficence
The nurse does not influence the patient’s choice. True or False
True
How do nurses demonstrate respect for autonomy
- Obtaining informed consent from the patient
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Accepting the situation when a patient refuses a medication
Authority to make decisions and act in accordance with one’s personal knowledge
Professional Autonomy
It is the basis for informed consent, truth-telling and confidentiality
Autonomy
Patients have a right to fair and impartial treatment. True or False
True
What are the moral rules under maleficence?
Do not kill
Do not cause pain or suffering
Do not incapacitate
DO not cause offense
Do not deprive others of the goods of life
Patients best interest
Beneficence
Is euthanasia a form of beneficence? True or False
False
When patient autonomy is compromised, what must be the guiding ethic
Beneficence
How do you promote a patient’s best interest?
- Understanding patient perspective
- Address misunderstandings and concerns
- Try to persuade the patient
- Negotiate a mutually acceptable plan of care
- Let the patient decide
What are the rules of beneficence
- Protect and defend the rights of others
- Prevent harm
- Remove conditions that will cause harm
- Protect persons with disabilities
- Rescue persons in danger
What are the qualifications needed to exercise autonomy?
- to understand the issue
- to reason out and give one’s own opinion
- to make an independent choice
- to deliberate by weighing the pros and cons
Legal document that serve as a prima facia evidence.
Informed or Legal Consent
What are the elements of Consent
Threshold elements
Competence
Voluntariness
What are the 2 main functions of informed consent?
Protective and Participative
When does consent start
When there is already a decision
It is the goodness in each personhood
Benevolence
Attentiveness dictated by kindness that pushes us to alleviate the pain and discomfort of other people/
Prevalence
Indirect voluntariness results when.
- The doer can foresee the evil results.
- The doer is free to refrain from doing it.
- The doer has a moral obligation to do that.