Ethical Systems
Ethical Principles
Bio-ethics
Law & Liabilty
Lawsuit Prevention
100
These are declarations of what is right or wrong and of what ought to be.
What is Ethics
100
the right to self-determination, independence and freedom.
What is Autonomy
100
Gives information about future medical care, for yourself, in advane of serious injury or illness. These include living wills and DNR's.
What are Advanced Directives.
100
these are laws written and enacted by US governmental agencies.
What is Statutory Laws
100
Defines nursing practice and establishes standards for nurses in each state.
What is The Nurse Practice Act.
200
Delimmas that require a choice of action when there is conlfict of rights or obligations.
What is Normative Ethics
200
The obligation to be fair to ALL people.
What is Justice
200
The ability to alter genetic material to produce organisms hat differ from their original form.
What is Genetic Research
200
A wrongful act committed against a person or his or her property.
What is Tort
200
A written transcript of patient information concerning a client's health history, diagnostics, treatment and prognosis.
What is a Medical Record
300
Also called teleology, this systems underlying principle is "the greatest good for the number."
What is Utilitarianism
300
the obligation to be faithful to commitments made to self and others.
What is fidelity
300
An extension of the "right to self-determination", this act allows a client to decide when life should end.
What is the "Right to Die"
300
Laws that have evolved out of decisions of previous legal cases which form precedents.
What is Common Law
300
A therapeutic realtionship established through honest open communication with the client or lient's family.
What is a Rapport
400
A duty based system of absoluteness regrdles of consequences.
What is Deontology
400
the act of doing good for clients under your care and encompasses do no harm to clients under your care.
What is Beneficence or Monmaleficence
400
A term meaning "good death".
What is Euthanasia
400
Laws that protect all members of society. They include misdemeaners and felonies.
What is Criminal Laws
400
It is imperative to keep these up to date, with in-services and workshops, to prevent medical errors.
What is Knowledge and Skills
500
A body of principles that govern the nursing profession.
What is The Nursing Code of Ethics
500
Requires health-care providers to tell the truth without deceiving or misleading the client.
What is Veracity
500
the total care of a patient whose disease is not repsonsive to curative treatment.
What is Palliative care
500
A type of negligence that encompasses a breach of duty that results in client injury.
What is Malpractice
500
An action, by the state board of nursing, as punishment if a nurse fails to adhere to the standards of safe practice.
What is Revocation of License
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