Chapter 6
Define Ethics?
a systematic study of principles of right and wrong conduct, virtue and vice, and good and evil as they relate to conduct and human flourishing
Define the principle of autonomy?
Autonomy is the right to self-determination. Professional practice reflects autonomy when the nurse respects the patients’ rights to make decisions about their health care.
What are the strategies to gain cooperation from students?
Provide opportunities for open communication and feedback, provide incentives for cooperation.
Strategies to facilitate coping?
Nurses facilitate patient and family coping with altered function, life crisis, and death. Nurses facilitate an optimal level of function through maximizing the person’s strengths and potentials, through teaching, and through referral to community support systems.
What are the different types of conflict resolution strategies?
Avoiding, collaborating, competing, compromising, accommodating, and smoothing.
Explain Ethical distress?
arises in situations where nurses know or believe they know the right thing to do, but for various reasons (including fear or circumstances beyond their control) do not or cannot take the right action or prevent a particular harm.
Give an example of valuing a patient's advocacy?
Giving priority to the good of the individual patient rather than to the good of society in general, Nurse ensures their loyalty to the employing institution or colleagues does not compromise their primary commitment to the patient.
What are the various types of non-verbal communication?
touch, eye contact, facial expression, posture, gait, gesture, silence.
Give examples of facilitated coping?
Measures that maximize independence and enhance self-concept, Stress management, Grief and bereavement counseling, referrals (physical therapy, occupational therapy, self-help groups, psychiatric–mental health counselor).
What leadership style begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, and others needs are of higher priority?
servant.
What are the different types of leadership styles/rewards?
autocratic, democratic, laissez faire, servant, quantum, transactional, transformational.
What is the nurse's role in reporting incidence/errors?
Documents anything out of the ordinary that results in, or has the potential to result in, harm to a patient, employee or visitor.
Define incivility?
rude, disruptive, intimidating, and undesirable verbal and nonverbal communication and behaviors directed at another person. Incivility also includes refusing to assist a coworker or share important information about a patient’s care.
What are the domains of learning?
cognitive, psychomotor, and affective.
Define quantum?
interconnected and collaborative leadership.
What are the activities that can support/promote dignity?
providing culturally respectful and sensitive care, protecting patient's privacy, preserving confidentiality of patients and health care providers.
autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, fidelity.
A silence between two people might indicate complete understanding of each other, that both are thinking, or that they are angry with each other? true or false?
True!
You begin patient teaching at the first patient encounter? true or false?
True.
The different responses to change?
seen as a threat to self, lack of understanding, limited tolerance to change, disagreements about benefits of change, fear of increased responsibility.
Nurses that engage in unprofessional conduct are included in what list? and what is nursing advocacy?
National practitioner data bank.
Advocacy means the protection and support of a patient's rights.
Define morals and values?
Values are beliefs about the worth of something, about what manners, that act as a standard to guide one’s behavior.
Moral: personal or communal standards of right and wrong. Informal rather than formal.
What is the good display of someone’s physical limitation in relation to their mental/physical health?
Posture.
When teaching patients with language barriers, what are the things you should do?
use an interpreter whenever possible, speak in simple sentences, demonstrate ideas you wish to convey, be aware of nonverbal cues.
A philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds beer organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world?
(hint: leadership style)
Servant.