Ethical Principles & What they mean
Ethical Theories
APA Citation Style
Questions, Questions & Questions
The Six Step Process
100

This principle refers to the right for every individual to make decisions for themselves.

What is autonomy?

100

This approach suggests that there are principles that should guide ethical decision making. And Dr. White says you should focus on this approach for primary analysis throughout the rest of the course.

What is the principle based approach?

100

References for APA papers must occur at the end of the paper and in this order.

What is alphabetical order?

100

These questions are asking about something that can be answered by the law.

What are legal questions?

100

Step 1, often takes longer than one anticipates, because one may need to do this for all potential perspectives.

What is gather all relevant background information?

200

In other words, we must do whatever it is to ensure good occurs.

What is beneficence? 

200

Tell me more, tell me more. It seems like the story can reveal a lot about the details of how to resolve an ethical dilemma.

What is the story-based approach?

200

All APA style papers must format all lines of text in this way.

What is double space?

200

These questions can be answered with clinical or healthcare guidelines.

What are clinical questions?

200

When an individual is faced with a situation in which something seems wrong, but they do not know what, then they are facing this.

What is moral distress type B?

300

Thou shall not harm nor do things that cause harm.

What is nonmaleficence?

300

How you get there doesn’t matter - only the outcome.

What is utilitarianism?

300

In-text citations that are used at the end of a sentence should have the period in this location.

What is at the end of a sentence?

300

These questions have no right answer. In fact they often have multiple right answers.

What are ethical questions?
300

When an individual is faced with a situation in which they cannot do what they know is right, they are then facing this.

What is moral distress type A?

400

No matter what the truth is, and how sad or painful, you must always tell it.

What is veracity?

400

I’m only concerned about maintaining my own identity as an ethical human being.

What is virtue theory?

400

In-text citations for papers using APA style requires these three components if the reference had more than two authors.

What are the first author's last name, "et al.", and the year?

400

hese questions typically include a “should” and use the present tense.

What is an ethical question?

400

The person who has identified the dilemma as well as has authority to impact an outcome is considered this within ethics.

Who is the moral agent?

500

Even if the preferred care doesn't align with your personal choice, maintain this to ensure a focus on the patient’s needs and preferences.

What is fidelity?

500

This theory suggests that tension causing the ethical dilemma most likely originated from a lack of attentiveness, trust, competence or responsiveness from the health care provider.

What is the ethics of care approach / theory?

500

Section headers, for the first, second and third sections, should be formatted in this manner. Even though the third section has an added formatting requirement.

What is bolded?

500

These questions ask about why something did or did not happen in the past.

What is a historical question?

500

The moral agent, once they’ve decided to act, they will also have to identify these and the corresponding risks and benefits.

What are practical alternatives?

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