Ethical
Principles
Principles
Which principle means respecting a patients right to make their own decisions?
Autonomy
Accessing a patients chart without being assigned to their care
Curiosity Breach/ HIPPA violation
If its not charted, it is considered...
NOT DONE
Rude but low-level behavior like ignoring someone or checking your phone while talking
Incivility
This principle focuses on doing what is best for the patient
Beneficience
Discussing patient information in public areas
Breach of confidentiality
Documentation must be accurate, timely, and...
Objective
Negative behavior between nurses at the same level
Lateral violence
This principle means avoiding harm to the patient
Nonmaleficence
Repeated unintentional aggression towards coworkers overtime
Bullying
The organization that investigates complaints and protects the public from unsafe nursing practices is...
Negative behavior from high position towards a lower position
Vertical violence
This principle requires nurses to be truthful patients
Veracity
Documenting care that was not actually performed
Falsifying documentation
The most severe disciplinary action for a nurse
License revocation
The cycle where experience nurses mistreat new nurses because it happened to them
Cycle of Abuse
This principle justifies giving pain medication even if it may cause respiratory depression as an unintended effect
Principle of Double Effect
Charting the medication was given when it was not, costing the patient to go untreated
Phantom Dose
Failing to report an impaired nurse is a violation of this professional responsibility
Duty to report unsafe practice
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
A system approach that focuses on learning from errors instead of punishing individuals
Just Culture