Values, Ethics, And Legal Issues Flashcards
A theory originated by Kluckhohn in the 1950s and applied to nursing by brink. Can be seen as a subset of ideas that helps to clarify components of ones world view.
Cultural value orientation
An unquestioned framework or predominant set of assumptions through which people view life.
World view
A branch of philosophy dealing with standards of conduct and moral judgment.
Ethics
Doing or promoting good. Nurses acting on behalf of patients to do good as defined by patients.
Beneficence
To avoid doing harm, to remove from harm, and to prevent harm.
Nonmaleficence
Creating the conditions in which patients can make their own decisions.
Autonomy
These specify what interventions patients would or would not want if they became terminally ill or sustained an injury or illness that impeded their ability to make or communicate decisions and who they would want to act as their surrogate decision maker.
Advance directives
An advance directive that specifies the type of medical treatment patients do and do not want to receive should they become unable to speak for themselves in a terminal or permanently unconscious condition.
Living will
The foundations for decisions about resource allocations for societies or groups.
Justice
Telling the truth
Veracity
Being faithful to one’s commitments or promises.
Fidelity
The body of law that deals with relationships between private individuals.
Civil law
Type of public law that deals with the publics safety and welfare.
Criminal law
A legal wrong that is subject to action in a civil court.
Tort
A legal wrong that is punishable by the state.
Crime
The threat of touching someone without their consent.
Assault
The act of carrying out a threat of unlawful touching of a persons body.
Battery
Defamation of character that results in injury to a persons character in the form of print.
Libel
Defamation of a persons character that results in injury to a persons reputation in the form of spoken word.
Slander
A willful, purposeful misrepresentation of self or an act that may cause harm to a person or property.
Fraud
An act of omission (neglecting to do something that a reasonably prudent person would do) or commission (doing something a reasonably prudent person would not do).
Negligence
Negligence on a professionals part.
Malpractice
states that the elements of duty of care and breach can sometimes be inferred from the very nature of an accident or other outcome, even without direct evidence of how any defendant behaved. eg. Retained surgical sponges or surgical tools.
Res ipsa loquitur
Concern for the well being of others.
Altruism
Right to self determination.
Autonomy
Respect for the worth and uniqueness of others.
Human dignity
Acting within the code of ethics and standards of practice.
Integrity
Upholding moral, legal and human principals.
Social justice
