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NURS3300 Ethics Final Exam Questions
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Know the names of each of the big three ethical theories - answer✔Virtue Theory
Deontological Theory
Consequentialist Theory
Virtue Theory - answer✔Judgment of agents = most basic
- Develop + defend conception of ideal person
- Develop + defend list of virtues necessary for being and person of a specific type
- Defend view of how people can possess these values
Deontological Theory - answer✔Judgment of actions = most basic
- Try to do the right thing (avoid the wrong thing)
- Deon = duty
- Formulate and defend a set of moral rules
- Develop + defend some method of determining what to do when rules conflict
- Conscientiousness IMPORTANT = derivative value, disposition to follow rules despite
temptation
Consequentialist Theory - answer✔Judgment of consequences = most basic
- Act to bring about the most of you deem as valuable
- Specify and defend some thing ot list of things that are good in and of themselves (intrinsic)
- Provide techniques to measure and compare quantities of these intrinsic goods
- Defend policy for those cases where one cannot determine which of a number of alternative
actions will maximize the good
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- Instrumental = only good so far as they bring about intrinsic goods (good in and of itself)
Morality - answer✔What you believe
An individual's principles regarding what is right and wrong
Ethics - answer✔What you do
A set or code of rules provided by an external source
Professional Integrity - answer✔Behaviors (actions), attitudes, and beliefs are consistent with
that of the profession and those of your agency
Nursing Code of Ethics - answer✔1. Act w compassion and respect for all individuals
2. Primary commitment is to the patient (indiv, fam, group, or community)
3. Promote and advocate to protect health, safety, and rights of pt
4. Responsibility and accountability for nursing practices, and to optimize pt care
5. Responsibility to preserve integrity and safety for one's self; maintain competence and
growth
6. Est and maintain improvement of healthcare profession and envt to provide quality care
7. Contribute to advancement of profession through practice, education, administration, and
knowledge development
8. Collaborate w other health professionals and public to meet health needs
9. The profession of nursing is responsible for articulating nursing values, maintaining
professional integrity, and shaping social policy
Privacy - answer✔Right of patient to determine what they disclose (right to autonomy);
negative right - noninterference
Confidentiality - answer✔Duty of HCP to protect information that they are entrusted with;
mechanism by which privacy is recognized and honored; form of promise
Positive right - answer✔Have a duty to DO or receive something
i.e. truth telling, right to receive emergency care, taxes
Negative right - answer✔Have a right to NOT have something done; right of
noninterference/being left alone
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NURS3300 Ethics Final Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Know the names of each of the big three ethical theories - answer✔Virtue Theory
Deontological Theory
Consequentialist Theory
Virtue Theory - answer✔Judgment of agents = most basic
- Develop + defend conception of ideal person
- Develop + defend list of virtues necessary for being and person of a specific type
- Defend view of how people can possess these values
Deontological Theory - answer✔Judgment of actions = most basic
- Try to do the right thing (avoid the wrong thing)
- Deon = duty
- Formulate and defend a set of moral rules
- Develop + defend some method of determining what to do when rules conflict
- Conscientiousness IMPORTANT = derivative value, disposition to follow rules despite
temptation
Consequentialist Theory - answer✔Judgment of consequences = most basic
- Act to bring about the most of you deem as valuable
- Specify and defend some thing ot list of things that are good in and of themselves (intrinsic)
- Provide techniques to measure and compare quantities of these intrinsic goods
- Defend policy for those cases where one cannot determine which of a number of alternative
actions will maximize the good
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- Instrumental = only good so far as they bring about intrinsic goods (good in and of itself)
Morality - answer✔What you believe
An individual's principles regarding what is right and wrong
Ethics - answer✔What you do
A set or code of rules provided by an external source
Professional Integrity - answer✔Behaviors (actions), attitudes, and beliefs are consistent with
that of the profession and those of your agency
Nursing Code of Ethics - answer✔1. Act w compassion and respect for all individuals
2. Primary commitment is to the patient (indiv, fam, group, or community)
3. Promote and advocate to protect health, safety, and rights of pt
4. Responsibility and accountability for nursing practices, and to optimize pt care
5. Responsibility to preserve integrity and safety for one's self; maintain competence and
growth
6. Est and maintain improvement of healthcare profession and envt to provide quality care
7. Contribute to advancement of profession through practice, education, administration, and
knowledge development
8. Collaborate w other health professionals and public to meet health needs
9. The profession of nursing is responsible for articulating nursing values, maintaining
professional integrity, and shaping social policy
Privacy - answer✔Right of patient to determine what they disclose (right to autonomy);
negative right - noninterference
Confidentiality - answer✔Duty of HCP to protect information that they are entrusted with;
mechanism by which privacy is recognized and honored; form of promise
Positive right - answer✔Have a duty to DO or receive something
i.e. truth telling, right to receive emergency care, taxes
Negative right - answer✔Have a right to NOT have something done; right of
noninterference/being left alone
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