Ethical Principles for Patient Care
The right to make one's own personal decision, even when those decisions might not be in the best interest of that individual.
What is AUTONOMY
A civil wrong that has been committed against an individual. An individual carries out an act or fails to carry out an act that results in injury or harm to a client.
What is a TORT?
Examining personal attitudes related to various aspects of culture to identify possible bias.
What is Cultural Awareness?
Legal process by which a client or the client's legally appointed designee has given written permission for a procedure or treatment.
What is INFORMED CONSENT?
(T/F) Fatigue and compassion fatigue affect a nurse's professional performance and personal life.
What is True?
Action that promotes good for others, without any self-interest.
What is BENEFICENCE?
Assault, Battery and False Imprisonment are acts of this type of tort.
What is Intentional Torts?
This means nurses apply their knowledge of a client's culture to their care delivery.
What is Cultural Appropriateness?
Health care provider responsible for obtaining informed consent.
Who is the Provider?
What is the Nurse Practice Act (of Ohio)?
What is FIDELITY?
An unintentional tort in which a nurse administers a large dose of medication due to a calculation error. The patient has a cardiac arrest and dies.
What is MALPRACTICE?
What is Cultural Sensitivity?
The difference between the informed consent and implied consent.
What is, INFORMED CONSENT needs to be written, the procedure taught, client understanding, and witnessed by the nurse. IMPLIED CONSENT is consent that is implied by action such as when a patient adheres to the instructions the nurse provides.
Living Will, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, DNR are examples of documented communication that express a client's wishes regarding end-of-life care.
What are ADVANCED DIRECTIVES?
A commitment to do no harm.
What is NONMALEFICENCE?
A type of Quasi-intentional tort.
What are BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY and/or DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER?
Means that nurses understand and address the entire cultural context of each client within the realm of the care they deliver.
What is Cultural Competence?
The nurse is responsible for what role during the process of informed consent?
What is to witness the informed consent.
A family has conflicting feelings about the initiation of enteral tube feedings for their father who is terminally ill, is an example of...
What is an ETHICAL DILEMMA?
A commitment to tell the truth.
What is VERACITY?
1. Duty to provide care as defined by a standard
2. Breach of duty by failure to meet standard
3. Foreseeability of harm
4. Breach of duty has potential to cause harm
5. Harm occurs
What are the 5 elements necessary to prove negligence?
Is similar to ethnocentrism and occurs when a nurse pushes the rules of their culture onto another person.
What is Cultural Imposition?
Criteria for INFORMED CONSENT.
What are: patient is provided with the purpose of the procedure, a description of the procedure, the risks and benefits, options for alternative treatments, the knowledge that they have the right to refuse treatment.
Is defined as cumulative stress that develops from the desire to help those who are suffering combined with the inability to relieve that suffering. Potentially seen as difficulty focusing, nervousness and anxiety, disruptive behavior and problems connecting with others sympathetically.
What is Compassion Fatigue?