NURSING ETHICS MIDTERM EXAMINATION REVIEW PACK BUNDLED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

NURSING ETHICS MIDTERM EXAMINATION
REVIEW PACK BUNDLED QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS

●● Values
Answer: - personal beliefs about the worth of thoughts, objects, and
behaviors


●● Law
Answer: - concerned with society as a whole
- enforced by courts, statutes, and boards of nursing
- external


●● Ethics
Answer: - concerned with the good of the individual
- internal
- enforced by committees and professional organizations


●● nonnormative ethics
Answer: - meta-ethics
- seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties

,●● normative ethics
Answer: - provides norms or standards to guide our behavior and help us
evaluate behaviors


●● deontological ethics
Answer: - duties human beings owe to one another
- strength lies in emphasizing dignity of humans


●● virtue
Answer: - emphasizes development of good character
- wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, fortitude, generosity, self-
respect, good temper, sincerity


●● duty
Answer: - obvious obligations toward others
- avoid wronging others, treat people as equals, fidelity, reparation,
gratitude, recognizing merit, beneficence, non-maleficence, self-
improvement


●● teleological
Answer: - bases norms and rules on consequences of the action
- end justifies the means
- utilitarianism

, ●● rule utilitarianism
Answer: - seeks greatest happiness for all


●● act utilitarianism
Answer: - in a given situation, which act brings the greatest happiness


●● applied ethics
Answer: - concerns with the analysis of specific and controversial moral
issues


●● relational ethics
Answer: - practical, action-oriented ethics


●● engagement
Answer: - communication that allows understanding of the individual


●● mutual respect
Answer: - acknowledges individual differences


●● embodiment
Answer: - reflects a connection between individuals that is meaningful