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Types of Ethics - ANS ✔✔Normative
Meta
Applied/Personal
Normative Ethics - ANS ✔✔study of ethical behavior
-what should I do?
Meta Ethics - ANS ✔✔Study of the nature and meaning of moral judgement
-good vs bad
Applied-Personal Ethics - ANS ✔✔Practical application of moral consideration
-controversial
Benificence - ANS ✔✔to do good and the right thing for the patient
Autonomy - ANS ✔✔Respect for patients decisions
-ensuring patient is informed
Paternalism - ANS ✔✔Provider/Nurse disregarding patients wishes because they know best
Non-maleficence - ANS ✔✔avoid causing harm
- assessing patient for damaged skin integrity
,-follows rights of medication administration
Accountability - ANS ✔✔Accepting responsibility for ones actions
Fidelity - ANS ✔✔Faithful and true to professional responsibilities
-keeping promises
Justice - ANS ✔✔Be impartial and fair
-who get your limited time?
Veracity - ANS ✔✔telling the patient the truth
Categories of Ethics - ANS ✔✔Social
Organizational
Prefessional
Personal
Bioethics
Clinical
Social Ethics - ANS ✔✔Behavior accepted and practiced by a group
influenced by laws and regulations
-EX: kids must go to school
Organizational Ethics - ANS ✔✔Formal and informal values, principles and systems
-values are expressed to members and outside entities
-values guide actions of organization regardless of laws and regulations
,-EX: Wells Fargo fake bank accounts
Professional Ethics - ANS ✔✔Personal and professional standards of a particular profession
-specialized skills and knowledge that serves the public and have moral aspect
-EX: Lawyers
Personal ethics - ANS ✔✔Values a person identifies within respect to peoples situations in their
everyday life
*Personal and Professional Ethics can clash*
-moral conflict
-EX: Nurses who believe vaccines are unsafe
Bioethics - ANS ✔✔Ethical issues emerging from advances in life sciences, biotechnology and
medicine
-research ethics is a subset of bioethics
--> Privacy, consent of research participants
Clinical - ANS ✔✔Practical discipline for ethical issues that arise in clinical practice
ANA code of ethics - ANS ✔✔describes ethical values, obligations, duties and professional ideals
-set of clear expectations for new nurses for moral behavior
-informs society of the ideals and values
-implied contract with the public
*Guides professional self-regulation*
, Nurse Practicing Act - ANS ✔✔Gives the BON the authority to regulate nursing, education and
regulate UAP
-appoints an executive director
American Nurses Association (ANA) - ANS ✔✔The national professional membership
association of nurses that works for the improvement of health standards and the availability of
healthcare services, fosters high professional standards for the nursing profession, and advances
the economic and general welfare of nurses
Code of ethics Structure - ANS ✔✔9 provisions
- 1-3: direct care and the fundamentals of nursing values
-4-6: individual responsibility in practice, safety promotion and quality care
-7-9: Advancing the profession and global health care
Ethical Dilemma - ANS ✔✔An ethical decision-making problem
-no correct answer
-depends on the situation
Ethical Dilemma Complications - ANS ✔✔Poor outcomes for quality of care
Moral Distress
Relationships
Uncertainty with choices
Litigations
Moral Reasoning - ANS ✔✔Is the process of determining the difference between right and
wrong by using logic
Moral Residue - ANS ✔✔Repeatedly compromising moral values