Ethics
The professional nurse utilizes this to guide ethical practice.
What is the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements?
To be answerable to oneself and others for one's own choices, decisions, and actions measured against a standard such as the ANA Code of Ethics.
What is accountability?
Disinterested or self concern for the well-being or benefit of others as a virtues, principle, and motivation for action.
What is altruism?
The professional nurse engages in this related to appropriate knowledge bases and professional issues.
What is ongoing educational activities?
An officer is asking for protected health information regarding one of our patients which is not needed to be divulged.
What is respect patient confidentiality?
The professional nurse delivers care in this manner.
What is the preservation and protection of patient autonomy, dignity, rights, values and beliefs?
An awareness of suffering, tempered with reason, couples with a desire to relieve suffering.
What is compassion?
The bio-ethical principle of benefiting others by preventing harm, removing harmful conditions, or affirmatively acting to benefit another or others, often going beyond what is required by law.
What is beneficence?
The professional nurse demonstrates a commitment to life long learning through these activities.
What are self-reflection and inquiry?
Ms. Smith is refusing a recommended surgery to correct a fractured femur stating she prefers to pursue non-surgical interventions.
What is respect the patient's autonomy to refuse a surgical intervention?
This is an essential ethical competency in which professional correctional nurses are expected to engage in.
What is patient advocacy?
A set of circumstances that creates a risk that the motivation for a nurse's professional judgement or action might be corrupted or unduly influenced by self-interest.
What is a conflict of interest?
The ethical principle that requires loyalty, fairness, truthfulness, advocacy, and education in relationships. It includes promise-keeping, truth-telling, and fulfilling commitments.
What is fidelity?
This is the first step to engaging in life long learning.
What is to identify one's own learning needs?
Family members are at odds regarding care of your patient. No one is willing to compromise and discuss the plan of care for your patient who has dementia.
What is pursue a court appointed guardian?
The professional nurse recognizes this concept in every patient interaction.
What is the centrality of the patient?
Core beliefs of desirability, worth, or dignity that guide and motivate attitudes and actions, two of which inform ethics.
What are values?
The bio-ethical principle that specifies a duty not to inflict harm and balances unavoidable harm with benefits of good achieved.
What is nonmaleficience?
Professional nurses engage in this activity to address issues in nursing practice as an application of education and knowledge base.
What is formal or informal consultations?
You witness a group of nurses consistently excluding a new team member.
What is your duty to engage in a healthy work environment?
The professional nurse is ethically and legally bound to report report this.
What is illegal, unethical, or inappropriate behavior which could endanger or jeopardize the best interests of the patient or the situation.
An internal virtue within oneself; a cluster of attributes. It manifests externally as honesty and moral consistency.
What is integrity?
The bio-ethical principle that specifies the duty to respect the self-determined decision of others.
What is respect for autonomy?
Professional nurses have the responsibility to engage in this behavior when contributing to the work environment.
What is contributing to a work environment conducive to the education of healthcare professionals?
You are assigned a patient who requires you to perform a skill you have not performed in several years.
What is your duty not perform skills you are not competent in.