Values, Ethics, Advocacy

Question 1

Values

Answer 1

Beliefs about the worth of something, what matters, act as a standard to guide ones behavior

Question 2

Value System

Answer 2

an organization of values in which each is ranked along a continuum of improtance, often leading to a personal code of conduct.

Question 3

Values influences ______

Answer 3

beliefs about human needs, health, illness, the practice of health behaviors, and human responses to illness.

Question 4

Professional Values (person-centered care)

Answer 4

Altruism, Autonomy, Human Dignity, Integrity, Social Justice

Question 5

Altruism

Answer 5

Concern for others, well fare and well being

Question 6

Autonomy

Answer 6

self-determination, pt right to decisions, and we must respect them as nurses

Question 7

Human Dignity

Answer 7

Respect for worth + uniqueness of others inherent worth when nurse values + respects all pts and colleagues.

Question 8

Integrity

Answer 8

Acting according to code of ethics and standards of practice, nurse is honest and provides care based on ethical framework

Question 9

Social Justice

Answer 9

Upholding moral, legal, humanistic rights
Assurance of equal treatment under the law
Equal access to quality healthcare

Question 10

3 Main activities of the valuing process

Answer 10

Choosing, Prizing, Acting

Question 11

Choosing

Answer 11

Choosing freely from alternatives, after careful consideration.

Question 12

Prizing

Answer 12

Involves something with pride, happiness, and public affirmation

Question 13

Acting

Answer 13

Combining choice into one’s behavior with consistency and regularity on the value

Question 14

Ethics

Answer 14

A systematic study of principles of right and wrong conduct, virtue and vice, good and evil, as they relate to conduct and human flourishing

Question 15

Bioethics

Answer 15

What are my duties and obligations to other people?
What do I owe the common good or public?
What kind of person should I be?

Question 16

Nursing ethics

Answer 16

Subset of bioethics, formal study of ethical issues that arise in the practice of nursing

Question 17

Morals

Answer 17

Personal or communal standards of right and wrong

Question 18

Ulitarian

Answer 18

rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of the action

Question 19

Deontologic

Answer 19

An action is right or wrong independent of its consequences

Question 20

Beauchamp + childress Principle- based approach to bioethics

Answer 20

Autonomy, Non maleficence, beneficence, Justice
Nurses add fidelity, veracity, accountability, privacy, confidentiality,

Question 21

Autonomy

Answer 21

Respect the rights of patient or their surrogates to make health care decisions

Question 22

Non maleficence

Answer 22

Avoid Causing Harm

Question 23

Beneficence

Answer 23

Benefit the patient, and balance benefits against risks and harms

Question 24

Justice

Answer 24

Give each their due; act fairly

Question 25

Using nrs process to make ethical decision

Answer 25

Assess situation,
diagnose the ethical problem by clarifying the ethical issues in nature
Plan (identify and weigh alternatives(using ethical reasoning))
Implementation: decide + compare the outcome of your decision
Evaluate your decision (Good, bad, did it work?) (How can we fix it?) , usually done by an ethical committee

Question 26

Fidelity

Answer 26

Keep promises

Question 27

Implications For Autonomy

Answer 27

Provide info and support patients and families need to make the decision that is right for them, including collaborating with other members of the health care team to advocate for the patient

Question 28

Implications for non maleficence

Answer 28

Seek not to inflict harm; seek to prevent harm or risk of harm whenever possible.

Question 29

Implications of Beneficence

Answer 29

Commit yourself to actively promoting pts benefit, be sensitive to the fact that individuals (family, professionals, caregivers) may identify benefits and harms differently. A benefit to one may be a burden to another.

Question 30

Implications for Justice

Answer 30

Always seek to distribute the benefits, risks, and costs of nursing care justly. This may involve recognizing subtle instances of bias and discrimination

Question 31

Implications of Fidelity

Answer 31

Be faithful to the promise you made to the public to be competent and to be willing to use your competence to benefit the patients entrusted to your care. Never abandon a pt entrusted to your care without first providing for the pts needs.

Question 32

Care-Based approach

Answer 32

Directs attention to the specific situations of individual patients viewed within the context of their life narrative. This is essential to person-centered care.

Question 33

Characteristics of the care perspective

Answer 33

Centrality of the caring relationship
Promotion of the dignity and respect of pts as people
Attention to the particulars of individual pts
Cultivation of responsiveness to others and professional responsibility
A redefinition of fundamental moral skills to include virtues like kindness, attentiveness, empathy, compassion, reliability

Question 34

Advocacy in Nursing Practice

Answer 34

Bridge between pts and resources
Primary commitment to the pt
Prioritization of good of individual pt rather than society in general.
Evaluation of competing claims of pts autonomy and pt well being
Decreased health disparity as a nurse.

Question 35

ANA statement on advocacy

Answer 35

The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects their rights, health and safety of the pt.