Defense Mechanisms
Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive.
What is Sublimation
A multi-faceted ethical system: it is a virtue ethic which focuses on building moral character, and a deontological ethic (divine command theory) which assesses choices.
What is Christian Ethics
The act or practice of choosing to admit oneself to a psychiatric hospital, or other mental health facility.
What is Voluntary Committment
The right or condition of self-government.
What is Autonomy
A therapeutic response towards a patient with auditory hallucinations is to say "it is doubtful that you are hearing voices and you probably started hearing the voices when you stopped taking your medications".
What is a myth
Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors.
What is Rationalization
An ethical theory that determines right from wrong by focusing on outcomes. It is a form of consequentialism. Utilitarianism holds that the most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number.
What is utilitarianism?
Treatment that affords the most favorable risk to benefit ratio, with specific consideration of probability of treatment success, anticipated duration of treatment, distress caused by procedures, and distress caused by the behavior itself.
What is the Least Restrictive Treatment
To remain truthful with the patients regardless of any circumstances.
What is Veracity
Being clear, concise and brief with patient teaching is best practice for patients that have auditory hallucinations and paranoia.
What is fact
An attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an individual one admires.
What is Identification
A legal theory that recognizes law and morality as deeply connected, if not one and the same. Morality relates to what is right and wrong and what is good and bad.
What is Natural Law Theory
A device that restricts movement.
What is a Restraint
This means being impartial and fair.
A suicidal patient does not need to have their belongings removed from the room.
What is myth
Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one's self to another person.
What is Projection
An ethical theory developed by German philosopher. According to him, we should look at our maxims, or intentions, of the particular action. There are certain absolute (or nearly absolute) ethical rules that must be followed (for example, the rule that we must respect people’s privacy, and the rule that says we must respect other people’s right to make decisions about their own lives).
What is Kantian Ethics
A false statement someone makes about you, which they publish as a statement of fact, and which harms your personal and/or professional reputation or causes you other damages, including financial loss and emotional distress.
What is Defamation
An ethical principle that addresses the idea that a nurse's actions should promote good.
What is Beneficence
Asking a colleague to help reflect upon your feelings about transference/counter-transference is appropriate.
What is fact
The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral.
What is Displacement
The ethical position that moral agents ought to act in their own self-interest.
What is Ethical Egoism
Failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances.
What is Negligence
This means to do no harm. This is the most well known of the main principles of nursing ethics. More specifically, it is selecting interventions and care that will cause the least amount of harm to achieve a beneficial outcome.
What is Nonmaleficence
A priority nursing intervention for a patient having auditory hallucinations is to document the client's behavior in the chart.
What is a myth