Definitions
"Bad practice" and is commonly called “professional negligence
What is malpractice?
The most basic and useful ethic theory, sometimes called the “Rule of Reciprocity”
The Golden Rule
Determining precisely what needs is to be done.
Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position. Ex. Falls and injuries that occur when side rails are left down
What is Negligence?
How many codes of ethics are there?
What is 10?
Beliefs, customs, and traditions that are reflected in personal convictions about right and wrong
What are Morals ?
What ethical decision making model requires all decisions must take into account and reflect a concern for the interests and wellbeing of all stakeholders?
What is the Josephson Institute Ethical decision making model ?
After evaluating the information available, make a judgment about what is or is not true, and about what consequences are most likely to occur.
Includes unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal information about an individual without that person’s consent.
What is invasion of privacy?
Who wrote the first code of ethics known as the Hippocratic Oath?
Who is Hippocrates?
Core beliefs or desires that guide or motivate attitudes and actions
Based on the notion that the ethical merit of an act is best determined by the consequences produced
What is consequentialism/utilitarianism?
Monitoring the effects of decisions and being prepared and willing to revise a plan, or take a different course of action based on new information.
What is to monitor and modify ?
Any care that result in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish. Can be physical, verbal, psychological, and sexual.
What is abuse ?
This was formulated by a committee of the Farrand school of Nursing, Harper Hospital, Detroit, Michigan.
What is the Nightingale Pledge?
A set of standards or conduct that indicate how one should behave based on moral duties and virtues, which themselves are derived from principles of right and wrong
What is Ethics ?
What ethical model's absolute moral duties are based on principle - No exceptions, no excuses- moral obligations are absolute and invariable, and do not allow for exceptions or extenuating circumstances
What is Kant's categorical imperatives?
What distinguishes solid facts from beliefs, desires, theories, suppositions, unsupported conclusions, and opinions that might generate rationalizations.
What is to evaluate?
A threat or attempt to injure; unlawful touching of another person without consent.
What is assault and battery?
What is the statement of medical ethics adopted by the Second General Assembly of the World Medical Association in 1948 , which is used by some medical schools as a graduation exercises?
What is the Declaration of Geneva?
What is it called when a person is harmed or injured because a health care provider does not meet the established or expected standards of care?
What is a tort?
What is the most recent teaching of the Golden Rule in history?
What is 30 A.D by Jesus Christ?
Once a decision is made about what to do, develop a plan of how to implement the decision in a way that maximizes the benefits and minimizes the costs and risks.
What is to implement?
Occurs when false statements either cause a person to be ridiculed or damage the person’s reputation.
What is defamation ?
Who is the hebrew physician who wrote a prayer that incorporates ethical principles?
Who is Maimonides?