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Chapter 6: Values,Ethics, and Advocacy.
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- 1Justice: Justice is the foundation for decisions about resource allocation throughout a society or group.Justice:
minimize discrimination and fairly distribute benefits even when circumstances make this difficult to achieve. - 2Paternalistic behavior assumes that the health care provider know more about what should occur than does the client.Paternalistic behavior.
- 3Autonomy: This refers to self- rule, or self-determinationAutonomy:
it respects the rights of patients and their surrogates to make health care decisions. - 4Beneficence: is the duty to do good and the active promotion of benevolent acts.Beneficence.
- 5Confidentiality is related to the concept of privacy.Confidentiality.
- 6Nomaleficence is the duty not to inflict harm, as well as to prevent and remove harm.Nomaleficence.
- 7Intergrity: acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and accepted standard of practice.And seeking to remedy errors made by self is also an example of integrity.
- 8ANA STANDARD: the nurse delivers care in a non-judgmental manner that is sensitive to patient diversity.2. the nurse maintains patient confidentiality within legal and regulatory parameters.
- 9Laissez-faire: allowing the adolescent to explore values on his own and the development of a personal value system.involves little or no guidance and can lead to conflict and confusion.
- 10Modeling: children learn values which is of high or low value by observing parents, peers, and significant others.modeling.
- 11Moralizing: teaches a complete value system and allows little opportunity for the weighing of different value.Moralizing.
- 12Responsible choice: encourages children to explore competing values and to weigh their consequences while support and guidance are offered.R.C
- 13Fidelity: is keeping client's promises and never abandoning a client entrusted to your care w/o first providing for the client's need.Fidelity.
- 14Advocacy: is the protection and support of others rights.Also, carefully evaluating and competing claims of client's autonomy and wellbeing.
- 15Value is the belief about the worth of something, about what matters, that acts as a standard to guide ones behavior.Values
6an individual is not born with values: rather, values are formed during a lifetime involving influences from the environment, family and culture. - 16Value system: is an organization of values in which each is ranked along a continuum of importance, often leading to a personal code of conduct.A value system.
- 17Modeling - may lead to socially acceptable or unacceptable behavior by observation Moralizing - complete system with little opportunity to weigh differences - parents and institution their consequenceLaissez-faire - explore on own to develop personal values - no guidance
Rewarding and punishing - reward for agreement and punished for unacceptable
Responsible choice - explore competing values and weigh - 18Professional values provide 6the foundation for nursing practice and guide the nurse's interactions with patients, colleagues and the public.Professional values.
- 19In 1998, American Association of Colleagues of Nursing identified 5 values that epitomize the caring, professional nurse.5 values
- 20Altruism- a concern for the welfare and well being of others.eg. demonstrating understanding of cultures, beliefs, and perspective of others.
advocates for patients. Mentors other professionals. - 21Autonomy: is the right of self-determination. The nurse must respect what the patient wants.eg. Planning of care with patients.
Honors the rights of patients and families to make decisions about health care. - 22Human dignity: the respect for the inherent worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations.e.g Provide cultural competent and sensitive care.
Protects the patient's privacy. - 23Intergrity: this is acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and accepted standards of practice.-Provide honest info
-document care accurately and honestly
-seek to remedy errors made by self. - 24Social Justice: upholding moral, legal, and humanistic principles.support fairness, promote universal assess to health care.
- 25Value clarification: the process by which people come to understand their own values and value system.Process of valuing:
1. Choosing
2. Prizing
3. Acting - 26Ethics: A systematic study of principles of right and wrong conduct, virtue and vice, good and evil as they relate to conduct and human flourishing.Moral is personal.
It is important to distinguish ethics from religion, law, custom, and institutional practice. - 27Bioethics: a number of fields and disciplines grouped broadly under the rubric "the life sciences."Nursing ethics:
subset of bioethics, the formal study of ethical issues that arise in the practice of nursing and of the analysis used by nurses to make ethical judgement. - 28Theories of ethics: what should I do? falls in 2 cats:Utilitarian: the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of the action.
Deontologic: an action is right or wrong based on a rule, independent of its consequences. - 29Theoretical approach: Principle-based-approach-uses both utilitarian and deontologic theories and offers specific action guides for practice.4 approaches:
autonomy, nomaleficence, beneficence, justice, fidelity - 30The care-based approach to bioethics focuses on the specific situations of individual clients, and x'tics of this approach include promoting the dignity and respect of patients and people.Centrality of the caring relationship.
- 31Ethical dilemma: arises when attempted adherence to basic ethical principles result in two conflicting courses of action.E.D
- 32Feminist ethics:we all deserve equal rights
- 33Code of ethics: a set of principles that reflect the primary goals, values, and obligations of the profession.C.O.E
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