Values

Question 1

What is the definition of values?

Answer 1

values are a set of personal beliefs and attitudes about truth, beauty, and the worth of any thought, object, or behavior

Question 2

What are the effects of values? what do they do?

Answer 2

affect our feelings, thinking, and behavior

shape our thoughts, actions, form identities

influence our choices

Question 3

What are the two types of values?

Answer 3

conceived values

operative values

Question 4

What are conceived values?

Answer 4

conceptions of the ideal

Question 5

How are conceived values taught?

Answer 5

taught verbally by one’s culture.

from:
family, religion, social group, school/teachers, work environments

Question 6

What are operative values?

Answer 6

values that an individual uses on a daily bases to make choices about actions.

examined and evaluated in terms of behavior

Question 7

What is meant by value intensity?

Answer 7

the amount of commitment one gives to his/her values

Question 8

What are the three ways that values are acquired?

Answer 8

1) inside the family
2) outside the family
3) individual experience

Question 9

How are values developed inside the family?

Answer 9

through family rituals and by direct and indirect methods

Direct: moralizing, laissez-faire

Indirect: modeling (setting example)

Question 10

What are some of the sources outside the family that values are learned from?

Answer 10

community, culture, religious groups, schools, peers, and environment

Question 11

What is value clarification?

Answer 11

the process of appraising your own personal values.

it Is not a set of rules and does not suggest values are incorrect, but helps one be aware of them.

Question 12

What are the three steps to value clarification?

Answer 12

1) choosing one’s beliefs and behaviours
2) prizing one’s beliefs and behaviors
3) acting on one’s beliefs

Question 13

What are the benefits of value clarification?

Answer 13

decrease stress
help with decision making
help with conflict resolution
increase personal growth
reduce gap between words and actions

Question 14

Describe the characteristics of personal values

Answer 14

learned from personal experience

guides consistent personal behavior

protect your rights and those of others

individual belief of right and wrong

Question 15

What are the characteristics of professional values?

Answer 15

shared by all members of a profession

set standards of what is right and wrong

learned as part of the professional role

based on society’s beliefs

guides consistent behavior in a population

Written rules that govern professional behaviour

protects rights of the nurse and persons in their care

Question 16

What are the 8 primary nursing values?

Answer 16

Safe, competent, ethical care
Health and well-being
Choice
Dignity
Confidentiality
Justice
Accountability
Quality practice environments

Question 17

What is ethics?

Answer 17

it is the study of good conduct, character, and motives. It is concerned with determining what is good or valuable for all people.

Question 18

What are the 5 types of value conflicts in nursing?

Answer 18

1. Ethical violation
2. Ethical dilemma
3. Ethical distress
4. Moral residue
5. Ethical uncertainty

Question 19

What is an ethical violation?

Answer 19

Neglecting fundamental nursing obligations in a situation where the nurse knows that the actions or lack of action is not appropriate

Question 20

what is an ethical dilemma?

Answer 20

situations arising when equally compelling ethical reasons both for and against a course of action are recognized and a decision must be made

Question 21

What is ethical distress?

Answer 21

where there is conflict between your beliefs/values and your ethical obligations

Question 22

What is moral residue?

Answer 22

the after effects of compromising ourselves in a situation of ethical distress.