EXAM 1 REVIEW
CHAMBERLAIN CARE:
● Caring for yourself is essential so you can care for others
● Nurses and nursing students must learn first the importance of caring for self
before caring for others. Physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually,
Chamberlain Care begins with care for self.
● Infusing care into education, care for self, respect for all, and collaboration with
professors. If Chamberlain takes care of it’s students, they will graduate as
extraordinary nurses and impose a positive impact on health care around the
world.
● Self colleagues students patients healthcare today transforming healthcare
THE 9 PROVISIONS OF THE CODE OF ETHICS:
1. The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and
unique attributes of every person regardless of social or economic status, personal
attributes, or the nature of their health problems.
2. The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether its an individual, family,
group, community, or population.
3. The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the
patient.
,4. The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice. The
nurse makes decisions and takes action consistent with the obligation to provide
optimal PT care
5. The nurse owes the same duties to their self as they do to others. This includes the
responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and
integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth
6. Through individual and collective effort the nurse establishes, maintains, and improves
the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are
conductive to safe, quality health care
7. In all roles and settings, the nurse advances the profession through research and
scholarly inquiry, professional standards development and the generation of both
nursing and health policy
8. The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and with the public to protect
human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities
9. Through professional organizations the profession of nursing must articulate nursing
values, maintain the integrity of the profession and integrate principles of social justice
into nursing and health policy
, ADVOCACY: refers to the supports of a particular cause
VALUE: A personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object
that sets standards that influence behavior
DEONTOLOGY: Proposes a system of ethics that comes from the work of an
eighteenth-century philosopher, Immanuel Kant. Deontology defines actions as right
or wrong based on their "right-making characteristics" such as fidelity to promises,
truthfulness, and justice
UTILITARIANISM: Relies on the application of a certain principle; focuses on outcomes.
Proposes the value of something is determined by its usefulness
Also known as consequentialism
FEMINIST ETHICS: Looks to the nature of relationships to guide participants in making
difficult decisions, especially relationships in which power is unequal or in which a POV has
become ignored or invisible
ETHICS OF CARE: 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)
CASUISTRY: 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"
CHAMBERLAIN CARE:
● Caring for yourself is essential so you can care for others
● Nurses and nursing students must learn first the importance of caring for self
before caring for others. Physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually,
Chamberlain Care begins with care for self.
● Infusing care into education, care for self, respect for all, and collaboration with
professors. If Chamberlain takes care of it’s students, they will graduate as
extraordinary nurses and impose a positive impact on health care around the
world.
● Self colleagues students patients healthcare today transforming healthcare
THE 9 PROVISIONS OF THE CODE OF ETHICS:
1. The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and
unique attributes of every person regardless of social or economic status, personal
attributes, or the nature of their health problems.
2. The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether its an individual, family,
group, community, or population.
3. The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the
patient.
,4. The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice. The
nurse makes decisions and takes action consistent with the obligation to provide
optimal PT care
5. The nurse owes the same duties to their self as they do to others. This includes the
responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and
integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth
6. Through individual and collective effort the nurse establishes, maintains, and improves
the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are
conductive to safe, quality health care
7. In all roles and settings, the nurse advances the profession through research and
scholarly inquiry, professional standards development and the generation of both
nursing and health policy
8. The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and with the public to protect
human rights, promote health diplomacy, and reduce health disparities
9. Through professional organizations the profession of nursing must articulate nursing
values, maintain the integrity of the profession and integrate principles of social justice
into nursing and health policy
, ADVOCACY: refers to the supports of a particular cause
VALUE: A personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom, or object
that sets standards that influence behavior
DEONTOLOGY: Proposes a system of ethics that comes from the work of an
eighteenth-century philosopher, Immanuel Kant. Deontology defines actions as right
or wrong based on their "right-making characteristics" such as fidelity to promises,
truthfulness, and justice
UTILITARIANISM: Relies on the application of a certain principle; focuses on outcomes.
Proposes the value of something is determined by its usefulness
Also known as consequentialism
FEMINIST ETHICS: Looks to the nature of relationships to guide participants in making
difficult decisions, especially relationships in which power is unequal or in which a POV has
become ignored or invisible
ETHICS OF CARE: 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)
CASUISTRY: 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"
