What does it mean to be consequentialists? - ✔✔ What makes the act good is the consequence.
On what levels are nurses held to account? - ✔✔
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Who can complain to the nurse's regulatory office? - ✔✔ Anyone and everyone
What is the result of caving to the mistakes of others? - ✔✔ Poor practice.
What are the 7 nursing values? - ✔✔ 1. Providing safe, compassionate, competent and ethical care
2. Promoting health and well-being
3. Promoting and respecting informed decision-making
4. Preserving dignity
5. Maintaining privacy and confidentiality
6. Promoting justice
7. Being accountable
Beneficence - ✔✔ Benefits or good consequences
Non-maleficence - ✔✔ For the good, doing no harm.
8 nursing principles - ✔✔ Autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, consequences, duty, rights, and character.
Does the patient have a right to refuse care? - ✔✔ Yes - however nurses have a responsibility to give the care.
What is the purpose of the code of ethics? - ✔✔ Provides guidance for ethical relationships, responsibilities, behaviours and decision-making.
What are nursing ethics concerned with? - ✔✔ How broad societal issues affect health and well-being.
Ethical problems - ✔✔ Situations where there are conflicts between one or more values and uncertainty about the correct course of action.
Ethical (or moral) uncertainty - ✔✔ Occurs when a nurse feels indecision or a lack of clarity, or is unable to even know what the moral problem is, while at the same time feeling uneasy or uncomfortable.
Ethical dilemmas or questions - ✔✔ Equally compelling reasons for and against two or more possible courses of action, and where choosing one course of action means that something else is relinquished or let go.
Ethical (or moral) distress - ✔✔ Situations where nurses know or believe they know the right thing to do, but for various reasons (including fear or circumstances beyond their control) do not or cannot take the right action or prevent a particular harm.
Ethical (or moral) residue - ✔✔ Nurses experience this when they seriously compromise themselves or allow themselves to be compromised.
Ethical (or moral) disengagement - ✔✔ When nurses begin to see the disregard of their ethical commitments as normal.
Ethical violations - ✔✔ Involve actions or failures to act that breach fundamental duties to the persons receiving care or to colleagues and other healthcare providers.
Ethical (or moral) courage - ✔✔ Is exercised when a nurse stands firm on a point of moral principle or a particular decision about something in the face of overwhelming fear or threat to himself or herself.
How do nurses promote health and well-being? - ✔✔ Nurses work with people to enable them to attain their highest possible level of health and well-being.
How do nurses promote and respect informed decision-making? - ✔✔ Nurses recognize, respect and promote a person's right to be informed and make decisions.
How do nurses preserve dignity of their patients? - ✔✔ Nurses recognize and respect the intrinsic worth of each person.
How do nurses maintain privacy and confidentiality? - ✔✔ Nurses recognize the importance of privacy and confidentiality and safeguard personal, family and community information obtained in the context of a professional relationship.
How do nurses promote justice? - ✔✔ Nurses uphold principles of justice by safeguarding human rights, equity and fairness and by promoting the public good.
How are nurses accountable? - ✔✔ Nurses are accountable for their actions and answerable for their practice.
Advance directives - ✔✔ A person's written wishes about how and what decisions should be made if they become incapable of making decisions for themselves.
Adverse advents - ✔✔ Unexpected, undesirable incidents resulting in injury or death that are directly associated with the process of providing healthcare or health services to a person receiving care.
Advocate - ✔✔ Actively supporting a right and good cause; supporting others in speaking for themselves or speaking on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.
Boundaries - ✔✔ Nurse-person relationship is the point at which the relationship changes from professional and therapeutic to unprofessional and personal.
Capable - ✔✔ Being able to understand and appreciate the consequences of various options and make informed decisions about one's own care and treatment.
Collaborative - ✔✔ Building consensus and working together on common goals, processes, and outcomes
Compassionate - ✔✔ The ability to convey in speech and body language the hope and intent to relieve the suffering of another.
Competency - ✔✔ The integrated knowledge, skills, judgment and attributes required of a registered nurse to practice safely and ethically in a designated role and setting. [Show Less]