Ethical
The patient asks a nurse whether an error was in this medication administration. The nurse tells the patient there was an error.
What is Veracity
System of ideas that explains something and provided knowledge to improve practice.
What is a Theory
The nurse has to patients needing attention. One is asking for pain medication and another is a baby that is alone and needs to be fed. The nurse weights the situation and makes a decision on whose needs should be addressed first.
Justice
This is a personal ethics that guide a person's behavior and choice. It is the ethical beliefs of a particular group. It is an individual's personal standards of what is right and wrong in conduct, character, and attitude.
What is Morals?
A broad explanation of things and aims to provide a broad understanding about a particular subject area
What is philosophy
A patient refuses to have a life-saving surgery
What is Autonomy?
Provides guidance autonomy, guides practice, education, and research.
What is a Theory
This is highly personal. It is about enduring beliefs and attitudes that are related to people, ideas, and actions. Usually derived from cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, societal traditions, and family and form the basis for our behavior, choices, and decisions.
What are values?
This is the process of learning what ought to be done and what ought not to be done.
What is Moral Development?
Form interrelationships among concepts and definitions to provide organized perspective
What is Nursing Conceptual Models
A patient may be harmed by a reaction to a medication, but the nurse administrated the medication without intent to harm.
What is Non-maleficence
This person was the first nurse theorist and nursing researcher who said that nursing knowledge was distinct from medical knowledge
Florence Nightingale
The term explains the values that nurses hold that are related to competence, caring and compassion. The concept emphasizes the need for nurses to be value-neutral and nonjudgmental
What is Value Transmission?
Gilligan was a moral theorist and he was another moral theorist
Who was Kohlberg?
This theory is general, broad, and complex
What is Grand Theory
The nurse tells the patient that pain medication cannot be given for another 3o minutes, but she will return at that time to administer the medication. The nurse returns in 30 minutes with the medication
What is Fidelity
This person coined the term Ways of Knowing
Who is Carper?
This is the process in which an individual's values are identified, examined, and developed. They can be retained or changed. it fosters personal growth. It is an act of free choice. Nurses can help patients identify personal and healthcare values.
What is Values Clarification?
The end justifies the means. The greatest good for a great number of people.
What is Consequential Teleology?
This theory is narrower in focus, refined through a series of studies
What is Middle-range theory
This principle is violated when a nurse disregards a patient's subjective complaints of pain,
What is respect for others
These theories state that caring is a central concept in the practice of professional nursing
What are the Caring Theories?
These seven moral and ethical principles help guide nurses in the decision-making process.
Autonomy, respect for person, non-maleficence, beneficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity
This focus om the right action regardless of the consequences.
What is Nonconsequential Deontology?
These four concepts make up the metaparadigm of nursing
What are 1. Person or Client
2. Environment
3. Health
4. Nursing?