WEEK 2&3 Flashcards
Statements about broad general, philosophical concepts.
Ethical/Moral Principles
It Provides the foundation for moral rules which are specific prescriptions for action.
Ethical/Moral Principles
What are the components of ethical principles?
- Autonomy
- Nonmaleficence
- Beneficence
- Fidelity
- Veracity
- Accountability
- Responsibility
right of an individual to make one’s own decisions and the right to choose personal goals.
autonomy
what are the components of autonomy?
a. Patient’s Rights
b. Patient’s Bill of Rights
c. Informed Consent
d. Proxy Consent
e. Confidentiality
f. Privacy
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes “the inherent dignity” and the “equal and unalienable rights of all members of the human family”
Patient’s bill of rights
Specific wording varies from hospital to hospital
Patient’s Bill of Rights
Agreement by client to accept a course of treatment or a procedure after being provided complete information, including the benefits and risk of treatment, alternatives to treatment option that the patient wishes to receive or not to receive.
Informed Consent
type of informed consent either in oral or written form
Express
type of informed consent that individuals non verbal behavior indicates agreement.
Implied
The process by which people with the legal right to consent to medical treatment for themselves or for a minor or a ward, delegate that right to another person.
proxy consent
keeping of another person or entity’s information private
confidentiality
refers to the right of an individual to keep his or health information private. It is also the right of an individual to withhold themselves and their lives from public scrutiny.
privacy
“Do no harm”
not placing someone at risk of harm and unintentionally causing harm
Nonmaleficence
doing good.
implement actions that benefit clients
beneficence
involves loyalty, truthfulness, promise keeping, advocacy and respect.
Fidelity
truth telling, having integrity, professional accountability and responsibility.
veracity
Answerable to oneself and others for one’s own actions
accountability
The specific accountability or liability associated with the performance of duties of a particular role.
responsibility
Guidelines for determining when it is ethically permissible for a human being to engage in conduct in pursuit of a good end with full knowledge that the conduct will also bring about bad result.
Principle of double effect
This principle is aimed in helping individuals discern how to properly avoid, limit, or distance themselves from evil in order to avoid a worse evil or to achieve an important good
principle of legitimate cooperation
The sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily
Common good
Protest and strikes of health personnel who refused to do their work because they had not been provided with necessary protections by the competent institutions (or even had not managed to obtain them personally on the market), must be considered as a legitimate defense or personal rights to safety.
Nurse defiance
The principle states that only those decisions and task that cannot be effectively decided upon or performed by a supported or subsidized lower level authority ought to be relegated to a more central or higher authority.
Subsidiarity
