Bioethics
Beneficence:
Autonomy:
Justice:
Fidelity:
Veracity:
Bioethics is a more specific term that refers to the ethical questions that arise in health care.
Beneficence: The duty to act so as to benefit or promote the good of others. Example: Spending extra time to help calm an extremely anxious patient
Autonomy: Respecting the rights of others to make their own decisions. Example; Acknowledging the patient’s right to refuse medication
Justice: The duty to distribute resources or care equally, regardless of personal attributes. Example: evoting equal attention to both a friendly patient and a patient who will not speak or make eye contact
Fidelity (nonmaleficence): Maintaining loyalty and commitment to the patient and doing no wrong to the patient. Example: Maintaining expertise in nursing skill through nursing education
Veracity: One’s duty to communicate truthfully; Example Describing the purpose and side effects of psychotropic medications in a truthful and non-misleading way
Cultural competence:
All people:
Different backgrounds/ cultures
Grow intellectually and emotionally at different rates
Choose to or choose not to evaluate their behaviors
Grow within themselves
Have or have no spiritual beliefs
Freud- Psychoanalytic Theory
Id: Primitive, pleasure-seeking, impulsive
Ego: Problem solver, reality tester
Superego: Moral component
cognitive behavioral therapy vs. cognitive distortions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT):
Seeks to modify negative thoughts that lead to dysfunctional emotions and actions
Once maladaptive patterns are identified, they can be replaced with rational thoughts
Cognitive distortions- exaggerated or irrational thought pattern
Different types of hospital settings:
Pt centered care:
Care is evidenced by empathetic understanding, actions, patience on another’s behalf
Stigma of mental illness:
Major barrier to mental health tx and recovery
Have harmful effects on the individual/ family
Include:
Stereotyping, labeling, separating, and status loss or discrimination in a context of power imbalance, social isolation, and reduced opportunities
Levels of awareness:
-Conscious mind:current awareness, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings
-Preconscious mind:below the surface, not currently the subject of our attention, but accessible
-Unconscious mind: biggest chunk, seat of primitive feelings, drives, and memories, especially those that are unbearable and traumatic
Seclusion vs restraints
Seclusion
Involuntary confined alone in a room, the pt is physically prevented from leaving
Used if the pt presents a clear/ present danger to self or others, escape risk
Q15 checks
Restraints
Is any materials, physical or mechanical device, or material or equipment that restricts freedom of movement
Least restrictive is always tried first!
Used if the pt presents a clear/ present danger to self or others, escape risk
Q15 checks
Patient rights
Right to refuse teaching!
Right to withhold consent!
Right to withdraw consent at any time!
The right of a pt who is mentally ill to refuse tx with psychotropic drugs has been debated in the courts!
Reporting of abuse to children/ elderly
Situations in which health care professionals can break pt confidentiality:
Duty to warn/ protect third parties
How nurses advocate for pts:
Ethical
The nurse must take appropriate action when the rights/ best interests of the pt is in jeopardy
DSM 5 (used/ application):
Provides standard language/ criteria
Focuses on research/ clinical observation
Used to:
Assess
Diagnose
Plan care
Global system of the person’s functioning
Transference
occurs as the pt projects intense feelings onto the therapist related to unfinished work from previous relationships
aggression/ anger/ violence
Aggression:
Anger’s motor counterpart
Goal-directed action or behavior that results in a verbal or physical attack
May be appropriate:
Self-protective, protecting self/ family
Is hostility that arouses thoughts of attack and/or a disposition to behave aggressively
Anger: Emotional response to a frustration of desires, threat to one’s needs, or a challenge
Normal, not always a logical human emotion
Violence:
The unjust, unwarranted, or unlawful display of verbal threats, intimidation, or physical force with the intent to cause damage, injury, or death
Stages of the violence cycle:
Preassaultive stage- de-escalation approaches
Assaultive stage- meds, seclusion, restraint
Post-assaultive stage- seclusion, restraint
Active listening:
Communicating across cultures:
Nonverbal communication:
Active listening:
Observing the pt’s nonverbal behaviors
listening/ understanding the pt’s verbal message
Listening for “false notes” (inconsistency)
Provide feedback
Communicating across cultures: Communication styles, use of eye contact, perception of touch, and cultural filters
Nonverbal communication: people will pay more attention to this. Any body gestures such as facial expressions, body posture, hand movements, etc
Evidence based practice
Clinical decision making that synthesizes:
Best available research evidence
Clinical expertise
Patient preferences
Mental Health Parity Act of 1996:
U.S. insurers must offer the same benefits at the same level of coverage for mental illness as for other conditions
Equal coverage improved with the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Interpersonal Theory
Humanistic Theory:
Interpersonal Theory:
Purpose of all behavior is to get needs met through interpersonal interactions and to decrease or avoid anxiety
Behavioral Theory:
Pavlov- dog salivation, classical conditioning
Watson- behavior can be learned
Skinner- positive/ negative reinforcement
Humanistic Theory: Consists of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
De-escalation
Emphasize that you are on the pt’s side
Appear calm/ in control
Personal safety
Set clear, consistent and enforceable limits
nurse/ pt should sit at a 45 degree angle
Acknowledge the pts needs whether rational/ irrational, possible/impossible
Effective communication with pts
Appropriate, sensitive use of silence
Active listening
5 A’s vs RECOVERY MODEL
Ask a question
Acquire the literature
Appraise the literature
Apply the evidence
Assess the performance
Scientific evidence for psychologic and physiologic tx
Neurobiology of psychiatric disorders
1990- “Decade of the Brain”
-Recovery model:
Consumers as partners
Mental health care: consumer and family driven
Focus on increasing consumer resilience, coping, and facilitating recovery
Individualized plan of care, consumer centered and recovery oriented
Maslow Hierarchy: Bottom to top
VS
Therapeutic Model of care:
Physiological needs
safety needs, belonging/ love needs
esteem needs
Self-actualization
self-transcendence
Therapeutic Model of care:
Existential Base:
Emphasis on self-awareness, emphasis on the present
Therapist as Facilitator: Genuineness, empathy, respect
Carl Rogers’ Person- Centered Therapy
People have innate self-actualizing tendencies
Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Inability of insurance companies to deny a person coverage because of pre-existing conditions or rescind or take away insurance for health/ mental health-related reasons
Clarifying techniques:
Paraphrasing, restarting, reflection of feelings, exploring, projective questions (“What if..”)
Projective questions- can help people to imagine conflicts, thoughts, values, feelings, and behaviors they might have in certain situations