Vocabulary
A set of moral principles, standards, or rules that guide human behavior and decisions, often established by professions or societies.
What is ethics?
This process involves deciding how limited healthcare resources are shared among patients.
What is resource allocation?
The fundamental attribute of humanity.
Dignity
A difficult situation in which a choice must be made between two or more undesirable alternatives, often involving conflicting moral principles.
What is an Ethical Dilemma?
During a flu outbreak, prioritizing patients with the best chance of recovery demonstrates this type of ethical reasoning.
What is utilitarian reasoning?
Inherent dignity and acquired dignity
According to David G. Kirchhoffer what are the two components of dignity?
The moral obligation to "do no harm" to others.
What is the definition of Non-maleficence?
In healthcare, these resources may be tangible like beds and ventilators intangible like expertise.
What are types of resources?
Empathy and emotional intelligence
A type of dignity connected to ethical care.
An ethical framework that determines the ethics of an act by looking to the consequences of the decision, aiming for the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is the definition of Utilitarianism?
Decisions about distribution often involve balancing these two ethical principles-fairness and efficiency?
What are equity and efficiency?
Valuing patient autonomy
Important role in how you make decisions within care.
An ethical framework that focuses on duties, rules, and the process of decision-making (the means), based on universal principles or rights, rather than outcomes.
What is the definition of Deontology?
The approach that focuses on each patient's values, emotions, and needs rather than just symptoms.
What is patient-centered care?
physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual
wellness.
Four facets of wellness.