Week 5: Ethical Prinicples, Values, Ethical Pratices Flashcards
Ethics and Morality
Nurses make choices based on right from wrong
Set of our values by which we judge are instilled in children, as we grow
Value formation
Strong personal beliefs
Unique, dynamic
- Culture, expereince
- Social community family, relationships, enviornment
How do we clarify our values
Through self reflection and self awareness
Professional Situations
Clarify values
Reflect
Learn from others
Respect patients
Nursing Ethics
Ethical theory: study of the nature and justification of principles, duties, obligations. Nurses use bioethical theory
- As nurses: we have a duty to serve the interests . Guided by ethical standards that impact compassion, morality is heart of nursing, ensure effective process for choices.
Morality
Heart of nursing and how you conduct yourself
Ethics in pratice
some are common dilaemmas, professional ethics ( client autonomy)( and student ethics ( academic)
Ethical Principles
Indefinites ethical issues to help issues
HCP needs to determine which principles
Serve as rules to guide moral conduct
1. Nonmalefience: not being allowed to harm (pain)
2. Justice: to promote fair and equitable treatement
3. Beneficence: do or promote good and refrain from harm.
4. Auotonomy: right of person to choose
5. Fidelity: grounded in autonomy , remaining faithful to commitments , being faithful, truth telling
6. Veracity: our obligations to truth
Moral Distress
Results when we cannot recognize ethical issues
Moral Imperative
Focus on understanding the concept of care
avoid the objectiontifcation
- Process the goal of nursing to preserve dignity
CNA
Foundation for ensuring ethical pratice and there are seven primary values and ethical responsibilities that are deemed important for the profession of nursing. Statement of the ethical values of nurses and commitment to the health care
- Used with laws, professional standards
CNA Responsibilties
7 Main primary values
Promoting Health and Wellbeing
Collaboration as a team: nurses work with others to ensure they attain their highest level of health.
Providing safe, compassionate, ethical care
Nurses must be questioning and intervening to address , unsafe, non compassionate, and unethical care or seeing incompetent care. Minimize violenece
Maintain Privacy and Confideniality
Ethical responsibilities released to the collection and use/disclosure of intro. Recognize the importance of privacy and confidentiality
Promoting and respecting informed decision making
Use evidence informed decison making
When caring for capable person ensure with proper information to make a clear descion.
Honor Dignity
Recognize and respect the worth of person. Respect privacy, relieve pain
Promote Justice
Uphold the principles of jsutice through safeguarding human rights, promote public good.
Be Accountable
Pratice with honesty, intergity, uphold code, pratice competencies
Value Clarifications
Team members can come togther to understand the vaues they hold and the overall importance of them
Autonomy
Competent Indivdual can freely determine care plan and is based on informed consent
Nonmalefice
treating paitent with care however never subject them to harm. Competencies help address that
benefience
requires that one takes psoutive action for the good of the paient. Higher standrad that nonmaleifence
Justice
Treat with equity and distrubtion of societies benefits