Ethical Principles 1
Promoting self-determination/freedom of choice
What is autonomy?
Considers the greatest good for the greatest number of people
What is utility/utilitarianism?
(2) The nurse's primary commitment is to whom?
Who is the patient?
(4) Nurses are ______ for all decision made and their actions
What is accountable?
(7) The nurse advances the profession through _______ inquiry
What is scholarly?
The nurse knows the right thing to do, but constraints make it difficult
What is moral distress?
Action taken in an effort to do no harm
What is nonmaleficence?
Ensuring equal care is given to all
What is justice?
(2) Nurses must work with other disciplines to optimize care
What is collaboration?
(4) Nurses are accountable for assignment or ______ of nursing activities
What is delegation?
(8) The nursing profession holds that health is a _______ right
What is universal?
The nurse witnesses an immoral act, but feels helpless to do anything about it
What is moral outrage?
Action taken in an effort to promote or do good
What is beneficence?
Keeping privileged information private
What is confidentiality?
(1) Patients have the right to choose what is done with and to their own person which is...
What is the right to self-determination?
(6) The nurse should establish, maintain, and improve the ethical ________ of the work setting
What is environment?
(8) Nurses should work collectively to reduce health ______
What are disparities?
The nurse is forced to choose between two undesirable alternatives
What is a moral dilemma?
Keeping promises/loyalty and faithfulness
What is fidelity
(3) The nurse advocates an environment that provides for the physical ______ of patients
What is privacy?
(5) Nurses owe the same duties to _____ as others
What is self?
(9) The profession should integrate principles of social ______ into health policy
What is justice?
The nurse is unsure what moral principles apply and what they should do
What is moral uncertainty?
Ensuring the patient is informed and their wishes are heard
What is advocacy?
The organization that publishes the Code of Ethics for registered nurses in the US
What is the American Nurses Association?
(1) Nurses respect the dignity of all humans regardless of factors related to their _______ of health
What is nature?
(5) Professional values must merge with ______ values to embrace values of the profession
What is personal?
(7) Research of human participants should include review by an ______ _______ _______
What is an Institutional Review Board?
The nurse is unconcerned about something that requires moral decision making
What is moral indifference?