NUFT 202 Exam 3 Chapter 22 – Qs And As
Accountability ✔️Ans - refers to the ability to answer for ones actions
Health care institutions also exercise this by monitoring individual and
institutional compliance with national standards established by agencies
such as The Joint Commission TJC.
Advocacy ✔️Ans - the support of a particular cause.
Nurses do this to ensure the health, safety, and rights of a patient are being
met.
Autonomy ✔️Ans - freedom from external control or influence;
independence
This concept can be applied to patients and providers.
Beneficence ✔️Ans - refers to taking positive actions to help others.
The agreement to act with beneficence implies that the best interests of the
patient remain more important than self interest
Casuistry ✔️Ans - 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"
Code of Ethics ✔️Ans - a set of guiding principles that all members of a
profession accept.
Collective statement about the groups expectations and standards of
behavior.
confidentiality ✔️Ans - the act of holding information in confidence, not
to be released to unauthorized individuals.
Protection and safety of patient information
, Consequentialism ✔️Ans - an ethical system that determines the level of
goodness or evil from the effect or result of an act
Main emphasis is on the outcome or consequence of action
Deontology ✔️Ans - defines actions as right or wrong on the basis of their
"right-making characteristics" such as fidelity to promises, truthfulness
and justice.
Ethics ✔️Ans - the study of conduct and character
Ethics of Care ✔️Ans - 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)
Fidelity ✔️Ans - refers to the agreement to keep promises by following
through on your action and interventions
Justice ✔️Ans - refers to fairness
the term is most often used in discussion about access to health care
resources, including the just distribution of scarce resources
Nonmaleficence ✔️Ans - the avoidance of hair or hurt
Responsibility ✔️Ans - a willingness to respect one's professional
obligations and to follow through
Teleology ✔️Ans - from the Greek word telos, meaning "end," or the study
of ends or final causes.
Utilitarianism ✔️Ans - idea that the goal of society should be to bring
about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
measures the effect that an act will have
Values ✔️Ans - a personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude,
custom, or object that sets standards that influence behavior
Accountability ✔️Ans - refers to the ability to answer for ones actions
Health care institutions also exercise this by monitoring individual and
institutional compliance with national standards established by agencies
such as The Joint Commission TJC.
Advocacy ✔️Ans - the support of a particular cause.
Nurses do this to ensure the health, safety, and rights of a patient are being
met.
Autonomy ✔️Ans - freedom from external control or influence;
independence
This concept can be applied to patients and providers.
Beneficence ✔️Ans - refers to taking positive actions to help others.
The agreement to act with beneficence implies that the best interests of the
patient remain more important than self interest
Casuistry ✔️Ans - 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"
Code of Ethics ✔️Ans - a set of guiding principles that all members of a
profession accept.
Collective statement about the groups expectations and standards of
behavior.
confidentiality ✔️Ans - the act of holding information in confidence, not
to be released to unauthorized individuals.
Protection and safety of patient information
, Consequentialism ✔️Ans - an ethical system that determines the level of
goodness or evil from the effect or result of an act
Main emphasis is on the outcome or consequence of action
Deontology ✔️Ans - defines actions as right or wrong on the basis of their
"right-making characteristics" such as fidelity to promises, truthfulness
and justice.
Ethics ✔️Ans - the study of conduct and character
Ethics of Care ✔️Ans - 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)
Fidelity ✔️Ans - refers to the agreement to keep promises by following
through on your action and interventions
Justice ✔️Ans - refers to fairness
the term is most often used in discussion about access to health care
resources, including the just distribution of scarce resources
Nonmaleficence ✔️Ans - the avoidance of hair or hurt
Responsibility ✔️Ans - a willingness to respect one's professional
obligations and to follow through
Teleology ✔️Ans - from the Greek word telos, meaning "end," or the study
of ends or final causes.
Utilitarianism ✔️Ans - idea that the goal of society should be to bring
about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people
measures the effect that an act will have
Values ✔️Ans - a personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude,
custom, or object that sets standards that influence behavior
