Ethics And Values Ch 44

Front 1

ethical agency

Back 1

nurses have choices and are responsible for acting in accordance to professional standards of ethical conduct

Front 2

bioethics

Back 2

Ethical questions that arise out of nursing practice

Front 3

morals

Back 3

Standards of right or wrong

Front 4

nursingg ethics

Back 4

Formal process for making logical and consistent moral decisions

Front 5

How values affect moral decisions

Back 5

Include beliefs of what you feel is important and may shape what you feel to be correct morally while it may not be correct for you patient

Front 6

Four factors that contribute to nurses moral problems

Back 6

1. To tell or not to tell
2. Cost containment-sending patients home early
3. Multicultural patients- respecting all value systems
4. Technological advances- what to do with unused embryos

Front 7

Moral frameworks affect moral decisions

Back 7

Are systems of thought that offer a basis for how to act in a certain moral situations but don’t give specific answers

Front 8

justice

Back 8

The obligation to be fair

Front 9

Compensatory justice

Back 9

Focuses on compensation for wrongs that have been done to individuals- malpractice suits usually incur these

Front 10

Distributive justice

Back 10

Requires fair distribution of both benefits and burdens
-allocating resources to whom?
-fair access to care for all

Front 11

Procedural justice

Back 11

Relevant in processes that require ranking or ordering "first com first serve"

Front 12

consequentialism

Back 12

The rightness or wrongness of the action depends on the consequences
-also called teleology- meaning study of ends

Front 13

utilitarianism

Back 13

Consequentialist theory
-value of action depends on it usefullness- greatest good for the greatest amount of people- ie healthcare reform

Front 14

deontology

Back 14

Right or wrong independent of its consequences- based on moral rules and unchanging priciples
-also called formalism

Front 15

Feminist ethics

Back 15

-based on love , caring, nurturing rather than fairness and rights

Front 16

Ethics of care

Back 16

Nursing philosophy- responsibility to care as part of professional behavior
-attending to particulars, promoting dignity,
-code of ethics in action and standards of care tell you how to practice within this philosophy

Front 17

Values clarification

Back 17

Process of becoming conscious of and naming ones values
- Nurse acts on these within self and when a patient is non compliant

Front 18

problem

Back 18

Is an easily answered question " such as should I steal from a patient"

Front 19

Ethical dilemma

Back 19

There is no right or wrong answer and either choice will be interfering with a moral decision- ie blood transfusion to jehovas witness

Front 20

what are some deterents to blowing the whistle

Back 20

retribution
slashed tires, threats, layed off

Front 21

beneficence

Back 21

to do or promote good

Front 22

fidelity

Back 22

to keep your promise

Front 23

veracity

Back 23

to tell the truth

Front 24

autonomy

Back 24

a persons right to choose and act on that choice