Values, Ethics, and Advocacy (ch6) Flashcards
Value system
Organization of values in which each is ranked along the continuum of importance, often leading to a personal code of conduct
Value
Belief about the worth of something, about what matters, that acts as a standard to guide ones behavior
Common modes of value transmission
Modeling Moralizing Laissez faire Rewarding and punishing Responsible choice
AACN identified five values that epitomize caring and professional
Altruism Autonomy Human dignity Integrity Social justice
Value clarification
Process by which people come to understand the own values and value system
Value theorist describe the process of valuing has seven steps and focuses on three main activities
Choosing
Prizing
Acting
Ethics
Systemic inquiry into principles of right and wrong conduct, of virtue and vice, and of good and evil as they relate to conduct and human flourishing
Morals
Personal or communal standards of right and wrong
Bioethics
Encompassing a number of fields and disciplines grouped broadly under the rubric “the life sciences”
Issues in bioethics include?
Responsible research conduct, genetic enhancement, environmental ethics, sustainable healthcare
Nursing ethics
Formal study of ethical issue that arise in the practice of nursing and of the analysis used by the nurses to make ethical judgments
Utilitarian
The rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of the action
Deontologic
An action is right or wrong independent of its consequences
Principle based approach
Combines elements of utilitarian and deontologic theories and offers specific action guides for practice
Beauchamp and Childress principle identifies four key principles
Autonomy
Nonmaleficence
Beneficence
Justice
