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Nursing Ethics & Values
Ethics & Values
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Undergraduate 2
11/21/2008

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Term
Private, personal, or group standards of right and wrong (good/bad, right/wrong):
a)ethics
b)morals
c)professional ethics
d)values
Definition
b)morals
Term
A systematic study of right and wrong conduct in situations. (What should I do in a given situation)?
a)ethics
b)morals
c)values
d)justice
Definition
a)ethics
Term
The application of ethical principals to healthcare.
Definition
Bioethics
Term
Issues or questions that nurses must address resulting from their professional practice.
Definition
Nursing ethics
Term
Give three reasons that nurses should study ethics.
Definition
1. Nurses will encounter ethical problems frequently in their work.
2. Ethics is central to nursing.
3. Multidisciplinary input is important.
4. Ethical knowledge is necessary for professional competence.
5. Ethical reasoning is necessary for nursing to be taken seriously by other disciplines.
6. Ethical proficiency is essential for providing holistic care.
7. Nurses should be advocates for patients.
8. Studying ethics will help you make better decisions.
Term
The communication and defense of the rights and interests of another.
a)moral agency
b)integrity
c)advocacy
d)human dignity
Definition
c)advocacy
Term
The ability of the nurse to base their practice on professional standards of ethical conduct and to participate in ethical decision making. = Nurses have choices and are responsible for their actions.
a)moral distress
b)impaired nursing practice
c)advocacy
d)ethical agency
Definition
d)ethical agency
Term
When nurses make moral decisions but are unable to carry them out.
a)impaired nursing practice
b)moral distress
c)whistleblower
d)moral outrage
Definition
b)moral distress
Term
A person who identifies an incompetent, unethical or illegal situation, or actions of others, in the workplace and reports it to someone who may have the power to stop the wrong.
Definition
Whistleblower
Term
What five abilities must be present for ethical agency to exist?
Definition
1. Perceive the difference between good and evil, right and wrong.
2. Understand abstract moral principals.
3. Reason and apply moral principles to make decisions, weigh alternatives, and plan ways to achieve goals.
4. Decide and choose freely.
5. Act according to choice.
Term
Give three constraints that can keep nurses from carrying out their moral decisions.
Definition
1. physicians
2. other nurses
3. nurse administrators
4. the law
5. threat of lawsuits
6. being socialized to follow orders
7. doubting their own knowledge
Term
What are some of the societal factors giving rise to ethical problems in nursing?
Definition
1. Increased consumer awareness.
2. Technological advances
3. Multicultural population
4. Cost containment
Term
According to professional ethics, your first allegiance is to whom?
Definition
The patient
Term
A belief you have about the worth of something
Definition
Value
Term
A belief you have about the worth of something
Definition
Value
Term
What are three characteristics of values?
Definition
1. are freely chosen
2. are often taken for granted
3. are learned in conscious and unconscious ways
4. are learned through observation and experience in social groups
5. become a part of a person's makeup
6. Give direction to life
7. Can be individual or shared
8. Vary from person to person
9. Can change over time
10. May be expressed overtly or manifested indirectly
Term
Mental dispositions or feelings toward a person, object, or idea.
a)attitudes
b)beliefs
c)values
d)morals
Definition
a)attitudes
Term
Something that one accepts as true.
a)attitude
b)belief
c)value
d)moral
Definition
b)belief
Term
A set of values that you have reflected on and chosen that will help you lead a good life.
a)attitudes
b)beliefs
c)personal value system
d)morals
Definition
c)personal value system
Term
The following is and example of what professional value/behavior?
Advocates for patients, particularly the most vulnerable
a)integrity
b)autonomy
c)human dignity
d)altruism
e)social justice
Definition
d)altruism
Term
The following is and example of what professional value/behavior?
Seeks to remedy errors made by self or others
a)integrity
b)autonomy
c)human dignity
d)altruism
e)social justice
Definition
a)integrity
Term
The following is and example of what professional value/behavior?
Supports fairness and nondiscrimination in the delivery of care
a)integrity
b)autonomy
c)human dignity
d)altruism
e)social justice
Definition
e)social justice
Term
The following is and example of what professional value/behavior?
plans care in partnership with patients
a)integrity
b)autonomy
c)human dignity
d)altruism
e)social justice
Definition
b)autonomy
Term
The following is and example of what professional value/behavior?
Protects patient's privacy
a)integrity
b)autonomy
c)human dignity
d)altruism
e)social justice
Definition
c)human dignity
Term
What mode of value transmission best describes the following:
Children learn values from their parents
a)moralizing
b)modeling
c)laissez-faire
d)responsible choice
e)reward & punishment
Definition
b)modeling
Term
What mode of value transmission best describes the following:
"doing your own thing"
a)moralizing
b)modeling
c)laissez-faire
d)responsible choice
e)reward & punishment
Definition
c)laissez-faire
Term
What mode of value transmission best describes the followAing:
A child is given an ice cream cone for being good in the grocery store
a)moralizing
b)modeling
c)laissez-faire
d)responsible choice
e)reward & punishment
Definition
e)reward & punishment
Term
What mode of value transmission best describes the following:
Children are allowed to explore new behaviors and experience the consequences
a)moralizing
b)modeling
c)laissez-faire
d)responsible choice
e)reward & punishment
Definition
d)responsible choice
Term
we attempt to understand our own values regarding an issue and know when to put them aside to become nonjudgmental when providing care to patients.
Definition
Value neutrality
Term
A person's right to choose and his ability to act on that choice.
a)autonomy
b)beneficence
c)nonmaleficence
d)fidelity
Definition
a)autonomy
Term
Do no harm and prevent harm.
a)autonomy
b)beneficence
c)nonmaleficence
d)fidelity
Definition
c)nonmaleficence
Term
The following is an example of which moral principle?
Honoring a patient's decision not to receive necessary blood products
a)autonomy
b)beneficence
c)veracity
d)fidelity
Definition
a)autonomy
Term
The following is an example of which moral principle?
being careful to prevent medication errors
a)autonomy
b)beneficence
c)nonmaleficence
d)fidelity
Definition
c)nonmaleficence
Term
The following is an example of which moral principle?
interfering with a man trying to push someone else in the river
a)justice
b)beneficence
c)nonmaleficence
d)veracity
Definition
b)beneficence
Term
The following is an example of which moral principle?
Not giving a specific time when you will return in case you cannot make it for some reason
a)justice
b)beneficence
c)nonmaleficence
d)fidelity
Definition
d)fidelity
Term
The following is an example of which moral principle?
Telling a patient "bad news" that he has cancer directly
a)justice
b)beneficence
c)veracity
d)fidelity
Definition
c)veracity
Term
The duty to do or promote good.
a)autonomy
b)beneficence
c)nonmaleficence
d)justice
Definition
b)beneficence
Term
The obligation to keep promises (faithfulness).
a)autonomy
b)beneficence
c)nonmaleficence
d)fidelity
Definition
d)fidelity
Term
The duty to tell the truth.
a)justice
b)beneficence
c)veracity
d)fidelity
Definition
c)veracity
Term
The obligation to be fair; equal treatment to all clients.
a)fidelity
b)beneficence
c)nonmaleficence
d)justice
Definition
d)justice
Term
A type of justice that requires fair distribution of both benefits and burdens.
a)compensatory justice
b)ethical justice
c)distributive justice
d)procedural justice
Definition
c)distributive justice
Term
A type of justice that focuses on compensation for wrongs that have been done to individuals or groups.
a)compensatory justice
b)ethical justice
c)distributive justice
d)procedural justice
Definition
a)compensatory justice
Term
A type of justice that is relevant in processes that require ranking or ordering.
a)compensatory justice
b)process justice
c)distributive justice
d)procedural justice
Definition
d)procedural justice
Term
Systems of thought (theories) that are the basis for the differing perspectives people have in ethical situations.
Definition
moral frameworks
Term
What is consequentialism?
Definition
The rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of the act rather than on the act itself.
Term
The value of an action is determined by its usefulness.
(e.g., "most of all, do not harm.")
a)deontology
b)consequentialism
c)utilitarianism
d)philosophical value
Definition
c)utilitarianism
Term
Making a list of pros and cons and deciding which action will result in the most benefits for the most people is and example of what type of moral framework?
a)deontology
b)consequentialism
c)values system
d)utilitarianism
Definition
d)utilitarianism
Term
The value of an action as right or wrong is independent of its consequences. (i.e., based on moral rules and unchanging principles)
a)deontology
b)consequentialism
c)values system
d)utilitarianism
Definition
a)deontology (aka formalism)
Term
What is the principle of the categorical imperative?
Definition
One should only act if the action is based on a principle that is universal.
Term
Helping someone in need because you have a duty to help others, not because it will necessarily produce good consequences is an example of which moral framework?
a)deontology
b)consequentialism
c)values system
d)utilitarianism
Definition
a)deontology
Term
Helping someone in need because you have a duty to help others, not because it will necessarily produce good consequences is an example of which moral framework?
a)deontology
b)consequentialism
c)values system
d)utilitarianism
Definition
a)deontology
Term
What does the ethics-of-care model emphasize?
Definition
the role of feelings, but not at the expense of the principles that are part of conventional ethics, such as autonomy and beneficence
Term
Formal statements of a group's expectations and standards for professional behavior gnereally accepted by members of the profession.
Definition
Professional code of ethics
Term
Give three examples of purposes of a nursing code of ethics.
Definition
1. inform the public about the professionl's minimum standards
2. demonstrate nursing's commitment to the public it serves
3. outline major ethical considerations of nursing'
4. provide general guidelines for professional behavior
5. guide the profession's self-regulating functions
6. remind us of the special responsibility we assume in caring for the sick
Term
Give three examples of sources you can find ethical standards for nurses.
Definition
1. Nursing Code of Ethics (ANA)
2. ANA Standards of Care
3. The Patient Bill of Rights
Patient Care Partnership
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