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NURS 165 Exam 3 with correct |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




answers
Deontology - correct answer✔✔The duty to honor/fulfill your obligations regardless of
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outcome



Utilitarianism - correct answer✔✔Greatest good for the benefit, happiness, or pleasure of the |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




greatest number of people is moral |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




Virtue Ethics - correct answer✔✔- Portray an individual's way: tendencies to act, feel, and
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judge that develop through appropriate training but come from natural tendencies
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- Expressed in one's actions (traits - truth telling, honesty, courage)
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Autonomy - correct answer✔✔Competent, individuals have the right to determine their own
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actions and the freedom to make their own decisions
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Beneficence - correct answer✔✔- "the doing of good" |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




- Doing good may also cause harm to the patient
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Nonmaleficence - correct answer✔✔- Duty to do NO harm |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




- Foundation of the medical profession's Hippocratic Oath
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- No intentional harm
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- Some therapeutic interventions carry risks of harm for the patient: chemotherapy
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Justice - correct answer✔✔Equals should be treated the same and that unequals should be
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treated differently |||\\\

,- Receive care that is appropriate to their needs
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Fidelity - correct answer✔✔Faithfulness or honoring one's commitments or promises (creates
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trust)



Veracity - correct answer✔✔Telling the truth (trust)
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What are autonomous decisions based on? - correct answer✔✔1. Individuals' values
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2. Adequate information
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3. Freedom from coercion (being harassed to do something)
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4. Reason and deliberation
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Examples of autonomous actions - correct answer✔✔- Right to refuse treatment
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- Giving consent
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- Obtaining information regarding results
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Examples of patients who can't make autonomous decisions - correct answer✔✔- Infants and
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children

- Mentally incompetent
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- Unconscious
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(also lack of information or norms of culture)
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What is the concept that justifies risking harm? - correct answer✔✔Double effect
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(chemotherapy)

, What 4 conditions must be present to justify the use of the double effect principle? - correct
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answer✔✔1. Action must be good or at least morally indifferent |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




2. Health care provider must intend only the good effects
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3. The undesired effects cannot be a means to end or good effect
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4. There is a favorable balance between desirable and undesirable effects
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Model for distributing health care resources (4) - correct answer✔✔1. To each equally
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2. To each according to merit
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3. To each according to what can be acquired in the marketplace
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4. To each according to need
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Responsibility of Nurses to be faithful: - correct answer✔✔- Respect all individuals |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




- Uphold code of ethics
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- Practice within one's scope of practice
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- Keep skills updated
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- Abiding by policies
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- Keep promises to patient
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Failure to carry out the prescribed care to a patient is unethical and may constitute patient
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________________________________. - correct answer✔✔Abandonment/neglect |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




Paternalism - correct answer✔✔One believes they know what is best for another person who |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\ |||\\\




is competent to make their own decisions
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What are two exceptions to Veracity? - correct answer✔✔1. Patient asks not to be told the
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truth

2. Mentally incompetent, autonomy, and capacity for self-determination are diminished
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