Fundamentals Of Nursing Ch 22

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autonomy

Back 1

commitment to include clients in decisions about all aspects of care

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advocacy

Back 2

supporting a cause

Front 3

accountability

Back 3

ability to answer for one's actions

Front 4

beneficence

Back 4

taking positive actions to help others

Front 5

code of ethics

Back 5

set of guiding principles that all members of a profession accept

Front 6

confidentiality

Back 6

protecting privacy

Front 7

consequentialism

Back 7

utilitarian system of ethics that proposes that value is determined by usefulness

Front 8

deontology

Back 8

actions are either right or wrong

Front 9

ethics

Back 9

study of conduct and character

Front 10

fidelity

Back 10

refers to the agreement to keep promises

Front 11

justice

Back 11

being fair

Front 12

nonmaleficence

Back 12

avoidance of harm or hurt

Front 13

responsibility

Back 13

willingness to respect obligations and to follow through on promises

Front 14

teleology

Back 14

the study of ends or final causes

Front 15

value

Back 15

a personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behaviour

Front 16

values clarification

Back 16

need to tolerate differences, which sometimes become the key in the search for resolution of ethical dilemas

Front 17

Discuss the role values in the study of ethics

Back 17

with difference of opinion and value it is important to have clarity on your own values: what you value, why, and how you respect your own values as you try to respect the values of others.

Front 18

Explain major ethical philosophies and theories

Back 18

Deontology refers to right or wrong while utilitarianism proposes that the value of something is determined by its usefulness; femenist ethices looks to the nature of relationships for guidance in ethical dilemas

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Describe the process used to resolve ethical problems

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1. Ask if this is an ethical dilema
2. gather all relivant information
3. clarify values
4. verbilize the problem
5. identify possible courses of action
6. negotiate a plan
7. evaluate the plan

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Describe issues of health care ethics today.

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Quality of life: central to discussion about futile care, cancer therapy, physician-assisted suicide, and DNR.
Allocating scarce resources: A key issue in discussions about access to care
Futile Care: interventions unlikely to produce benefit for the client
Nursing Shortage: produces difficult working conditions and affects client outcome.