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30 Cards in this Set
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Desired behaviors
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Ethics
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Mandated behaviors
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Laws
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Do good : beneficence
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Malpractice
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Don't harm : nonmaleficence
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Licensure, criminal law, required abuse reports
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Be free : autonomy
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consent, advance directives
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Be fair : justice
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due process, anti-discrimination laws
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Be true : fidelity
includes confidentialty, veracity, loyalty |
laws enforcing privacy, telling truth such as informed consent, keeping promises as in contract law
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Life
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criminal law against killing, abortion, euthanasia
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Values clarification
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process of examining values, clarifying what one's own values are and priortizing the values; 1st step in making ethical decisions
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Eleven clauses, statements
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Nurse respects her patient's dignity and uniqueness and is not biased in her care by social or economic status, personal attributes or the kind of illness the patient has.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse protects patient's privacy, keeping confidences.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse is patient's safeguard from any incompetent, unethical or illegal practitioner.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse is responsible and accountable for her own judgments and actions.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse keeps competent in nursing.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse uses judgment, competence and qualifications to seek consultation, accept responsibility and delegate nursing tasks.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse participates in research.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse participates in improving standards.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse participates in improving conditions of work. (collective bargaining)
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse helps protect the public from false information and helps maintain the integrity of nursing.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Nurse collaborates with others to meet the health needs of the public.
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ANA Code of Ethics
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Patient's Bill of Rights
by American Hospital Assoc. ...List them |
-Receive considerate and respectful care.
-Obtain relevant, current and understandable information. -Make decisions about his care, and to refuse care. -Have an advance directive. -Have his privacy protected. -Have his records kept confidential. -Review his records. -Have his request for treatment considered. -Be informed about financial relationships between providers. -Consent to or decline to participate in research. -Be treated with reasonable continuity of care. -Be informed of hospital policies and avenues of dissent. |
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Allow patients to make decisions about future care
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Living Wills
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Concept in which patient must be truly informed of the risks in order to give true consent to a procedure.
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Informed consent
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Justice
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how to make outcomes more or less equal for all; access
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Beneficence
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Latin, meaning: to do or make good.
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Nonmaleficence
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Latin, meaning: do no harm
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Autonomy
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Latin, meaning: power or freedom or choice. (from root/Latin, self {auto} control {nomy}); A patient who is informed and still refuses a procedure is exercising his autonomy.
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Fidelity
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Latin meaning: faithful. principle that demands nurse be the patient advocate.; Telling the truth
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Veracity
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Telling the truth; ie. about their condition
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