Collaboration NSG 130 correctly
answered to pass
Advocacy - correct answer ✔✔protection and support of another's rights
Value - correct answer ✔✔A belief about the worth of something, about what matters, that acts
as a standard to guide one's behavior.
Value System - correct answer ✔✔an organization of values in which each is ranked along a
continuum of importance, often leading to a personal code of conduct
autonomy - correct answer ✔✔self-determination; being independent and self-governing
Beneficence - correct answer ✔✔Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action
Bioethics - correct answer ✔✔ethics that encompass all those perspectives that seek to
understand human nature and behavior, the domain of social science, and the natural world
care-based approach - correct answer ✔✔approach to bioethics that directs attention to the
specific situations of individual patients viewed within the context of their life narrative
Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔✔principles that reflect the primary goals, values, and
obligations of the profession.
Deontologic - correct answer ✔✔ethical system in which actions are right or wrong
independent of the consequences they produce.
, Example: Another nurse may believe that abortion is wrong based on a rule that an innocent life
should never be taken (deontologic argument).
ethical agency - correct answer ✔✔the ability to behave in an ethical way; to do the ethically
right thing because it is ethical capacity, must be cultivated in the same way that nurses
cultivate the ability to do the scientifically right thing when providing care.
ethical dilemma - correct answer ✔✔situation that arises when attempted adherence to basic
ethical principles results in two conflicting courses of action
ethical distress - correct answer ✔✔occurrence when the nurse knows the right thing to do but
either personal or institutional factors make it difficult to follow the correct course of action
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔system dealing with standards of character and behavior related to
what is right and wrong
Feminist Ethics - correct answer ✔✔type of ethical approach that aims to critique existing
patterns of oppression and domination in society, especially as these affect women and the
poor
fidelity - correct answer ✔✔keeping promises and commitments made to others
Justice - correct answer ✔✔process that distributes benefits, risks, and costs fairly
Morals - correct answer ✔✔like ethics, concerned with what constitutes right action; more
informal and personal than the term ethics. similar in meaning, usually refers to personal or
communal standards of right and wrong. It is important to distinguish ethics from religion, law,
custom, and institutional practices.