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Unit 8: Major Bioethical Principles Flashcards

1
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Respect a person’s freedom to choose what is right for them

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Autonomy

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2
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Treat and provide care fairly to all patients

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Justice

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All choices for a patient are made with the intent to do good

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Beneficence

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4
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Do no harm

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Non-maleficence

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5
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The nurse does not influence the patient’s choice. True or False

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True

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How do nurses demonstrate respect for autonomy

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  1. Obtaining informed consent from the patient
  2. Maintaining confidentiality
  3. Accepting the situation when a patient refuses a medication
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7
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Authority to make decisions and act in accordance with one’s personal knowledge

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Professional Autonomy

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8
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It is the basis for informed consent, truth-telling and confidentiality

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Autonomy

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9
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Patients have a right to fair and impartial treatment. True or False

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True

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10
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What are the moral rules under maleficence?

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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

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Patients best interest

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Beneficence

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12
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Is euthanasia a form of beneficence? True or False

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False

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13
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When patient autonomy is compromised, what must be the guiding ethic

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Beneficence

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14
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How do you promote a patient’s best interest?

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  • Understanding patient perspective
  • Address misunderstandings and concerns
  • Try to persuade the patient
  • Negotiate a mutually acceptable plan of care
  • Let the patient decide
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What are the rules of beneficence

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  1. Protect and defend the rights of others
  2. Prevent harm
  3. Remove conditions that will cause harm
  4. Protect persons with disabilities
  5. Rescue persons in danger
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16
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What are the qualifications needed to exercise autonomy?

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  1. to understand the issue
  2. to reason out and give one’s own opinion
  3. to make an independent choice
  4. to deliberate by weighing the pros and cons
17
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Legal document that serve as a prima facia evidence.

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Informed or Legal Consent

18
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What are the elements of Consent

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Threshold elements
Competence
Voluntariness

19
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What are the 2 main functions of informed consent?

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Protective and Participative

20
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When does consent start

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When there is already a decision

21
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It is the goodness in each personhood

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Benevolence

22
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Attentiveness dictated by kindness that pushes us to alleviate the pain and discomfort of other people/

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Prevalence

23
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Indirect voluntariness results when.

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  1. The doer can foresee the evil results.
  2. The doer is free to refrain from doing it.
  3. The doer has a moral obligation to do that.

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