NUFT 202 Exam 3 Chapter 22 – Questions/Answers
Accountability Correct Ans - refers to the ability to answer for ones
actions
Health care institutions also exercise this by monitoring individual and
institutional compliance with national standards established by agencies
such as The Joint Commission TJC.
Advocacy Correct Ans - the support of a particular cause.
Nurses do this to ensure the health, safety, and rights of a patient are being
met.
Autonomy Correct Ans - freedom from external control or
influence; independence
This concept can be applied to patients and providers.
Beneficence Correct Ans - refers to taking positive actions to help
others.
The agreement to act with beneficence implies that the best interests of the
patient remain more important than self interest
Casuistry Correct Ans - case-based reasoning, turns away from
conventional principles of ethics as a way to determine best actions and
focuses instead on an "intimate understanding of particular situations"
Code of Ethics Correct Ans - a set of guiding principles that all
members of a profession accept.
Collective statement about the groups expectations and standards of
behavior.
confidentiality Correct Ans - the act of holding information in
confidence, not to be released to unauthorized individuals.
Protection and safety of patient information
, Consequentialism Correct Ans - an ethical system that determines
the level of goodness or evil from the effect or result of an act
Main emphasis is on the outcome or consequence of action
Deontology Correct Ans - defines actions as right or wrong on the
basis of their "right-making characteristics" such as fidelity to promises,
truthfulness and justice.
Ethics Correct Ans - the study of conduct and character
Ethics of Care Correct Ans - Strives to address issues beyond
individual relationships by raising ethical concerns about the structures
within which individual caring occurs (structures such as hospitals or
universities)
Fidelity Correct Ans - refers to the agreement to keep promises by
following through on your action and interventions
Justice Correct Ans - refers to fairness
the term is most often used in discussion about access to health care
resources, including the just distribution of scarce resources
Nonmaleficence Correct Ans - the avoidance of hair or hurt
Responsibility Correct Ans - a willingness to respect one's
professional obligations and to follow through
Teleology Correct Ans - from the Greek word telos, meaning "end,"
or the study of ends or final causes.
Utilitarianism Correct Ans - idea that the goal of society should be
to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
measures the effect that an act will have
Values Correct Ans - a personal belief about the worth of a given
idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behavior
Accountability Correct Ans - refers to the ability to answer for ones
actions
Health care institutions also exercise this by monitoring individual and
institutional compliance with national standards established by agencies
such as The Joint Commission TJC.
Advocacy Correct Ans - the support of a particular cause.
Nurses do this to ensure the health, safety, and rights of a patient are being
met.
Autonomy Correct Ans - freedom from external control or
influence; independence
This concept can be applied to patients and providers.
Beneficence Correct Ans - refers to taking positive actions to help
others.
The agreement to act with beneficence implies that the best interests of the
patient remain more important than self interest
Casuistry Correct Ans - case-based reasoning, turns away from
conventional principles of ethics as a way to determine best actions and
focuses instead on an "intimate understanding of particular situations"
Code of Ethics Correct Ans - a set of guiding principles that all
members of a profession accept.
Collective statement about the groups expectations and standards of
behavior.
confidentiality Correct Ans - the act of holding information in
confidence, not to be released to unauthorized individuals.
Protection and safety of patient information
, Consequentialism Correct Ans - an ethical system that determines
the level of goodness or evil from the effect or result of an act
Main emphasis is on the outcome or consequence of action
Deontology Correct Ans - defines actions as right or wrong on the
basis of their "right-making characteristics" such as fidelity to promises,
truthfulness and justice.
Ethics Correct Ans - the study of conduct and character
Ethics of Care Correct Ans - Strives to address issues beyond
individual relationships by raising ethical concerns about the structures
within which individual caring occurs (structures such as hospitals or
universities)
Fidelity Correct Ans - refers to the agreement to keep promises by
following through on your action and interventions
Justice Correct Ans - refers to fairness
the term is most often used in discussion about access to health care
resources, including the just distribution of scarce resources
Nonmaleficence Correct Ans - the avoidance of hair or hurt
Responsibility Correct Ans - a willingness to respect one's
professional obligations and to follow through
Teleology Correct Ans - from the Greek word telos, meaning "end,"
or the study of ends or final causes.
Utilitarianism Correct Ans - idea that the goal of society should be
to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
measures the effect that an act will have
Values Correct Ans - a personal belief about the worth of a given
idea, attitude, custom, or object that sets standards that influence behavior
