Values/Ethical Dilemma Tools/Acts
An evaluation tool to help you understand your values and the way they influence your choices by making choices between 36 pairs of statements or words.
Ethical Lens Inventory (ELI)
Political Action Committees (PACs) are ways that nurses support political candidates and raise and distribute campaign funds. PACs grew out of the ___ era
Nixon/Watergate era.
What are the three categories of euthanasia?
Active, Passive, and Voluntary
This tool helps nurses "nurse smarter" and influence patient care.
Politics
What resource used to resolve ethical dilemmas points out issues of universal or global importance to all nurses and had four principle elements?
The INC Code of Ethics for Nurses
a group of individuals or organizations that share a common interest in a single issue & work to increase political influence and requires negotiation and compromise
Coalition
What is medical futility?
The use of medical intervention without any realistic hope of benefit to the patient.
These three areas of healthcare are affected by politics.
Funding, policy, and care delivery
____ represents ideas and beliefs that we gold in high regard and may affect the decisions we make in our professional practice.
Values
Building relationships with professionals, organizations, and policymakers who share similar goals & strengthens nursing advocacy efforts.
Networking
Name one of the questions regarding medical futility.
Do patients or families have the right to demand and receive treatment that healthcare providers believe is futile? OR Do physicians have the right to refuse to provide treatment that they believe is futile despite the patient or family's desire to initiate or continue such treatment?
Being involved in the political process helps nurses gain access to these needed items for patient care.
The Nuremberg Code
Ensures nurses meet the same qualifications across states.
Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)
How should success be defined for vitro fertilization?
In the same way at all clinics (success = pregnancy OR success = live birth)
This skill means carefully examining a problem before deciding what to do.
The ability to analyze an issue
Act that required hospitals to provide care to anyone who is need of emergency health care treatment regardless of their citizenship, legal status, or ability to pay.
The 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
____ establishes standardized requirements for nursing licensure.
Uniform Licensure Requirements (ULRs)
What were the three ethical components regarding transplantation?
Religious/cultural issues, severity of illness, and how are donors solicited
According to Sanford's 5 Laws of Power, this always fills any vacuum.
Power