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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL-EXAM-DUMPS] Monday, July 29, 2024 12:15 PMNUFT 202 Exam 3 Practice Questions and
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Ethics - ✔️✔️the study of conduct and character. It is concerned with determining what is
good or valuable for individuals, groups, and society at large.
Acts that are ethical reflect a commitment to standards that individuals, professions, and
societies strive to meet. When decisions must be made about health care,
understandable disagreement can occur among health care providers, families,
patients, friends, and people in the community. The right thing to do can be hard to
determine when ethics, values, and perceptions about health care collide.
Autonomy - ✔️✔️Commitment to include patients in decisions; refers to the commitment
to include patients in decisions about all aspects of care as a way of acknowledging and
protecting a patient's independence. Involving patients in decisions about their care is
now standard practice. Providers are obligated to inform patients about risks and
benefits of treatment plans and then to ensure that they understand and agree with their
plan.
Respect for provider autonomy refers to provider relationships to institutions.
Beneficence - ✔️✔️Taking positive actions to help others; fundamental to the practice of
nursing and medicine. The agreement to act with beneficence implies that the best
interests of the patient remain more important than self-interest.
Nonmaleficence - ✔️✔️Avoidance of harm or hurt; Maleficence refers to harm or hurt;
thus nonmaleficence is the avoidance of harm or hurt. In health care, ethical practice
involves not only the will to do good, but an equal commitment to do no harm.
Justice - ✔️✔️Being fair; refers to fairness. It is used most often in discussions about
access to health care resources, including the just distribution of resources. The term
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just culture refers to the promotion of open discussion without fear of recrimination
whenever mistakes, especially those involving adverse events, occur or nearly occur.
Fidelity - ✔️✔️Agreement to keep promises; also refers to the unwillingness to abandon
patients regardless of the circumstances, even when personal beliefs differ as they may
when dealing with drug dealers, members of the gay community, women who received
an abortion, or prisoners.
Code of nursing ethics - ✔️✔️- A set of guiding principles that all members of a profession
accept
- Helps professional groups settle questions about practice or behavior
- Includes advocacy, responsibility, accountability, and confidentiality
Social networking - ✔️✔️presents ethical challenges for nurses; can be a supportive
source of information about patient care or professional nursing activities. The risk to
patient privacy is great. Posting a photo with no identifiers should not be practiced, as
sometimes, the patient can still be identified. Becoming friends with patients may cloud
your ability to remain objective. Workplace policies will guide your decisions in engaging
with social media.
ANA code of ethics - ✔️✔️The American Nurses Association (ANA) code of ethics
provides a foundation for professional nursing.
A code of ethics can be defined as a collective statement about the group's expectations
and standards of behavior.
The ANA established the first code of nursing ethics decades ago.
The ANA reviews and revises the code regularly to reflect changes in practice. However,
basic principles of responsibility, accountability, advocacy, and confidentiality remain
constant.
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Advocacy - ✔️✔️refers to the support of a particular cause. As a nurse you advocate for
the health, safety, and rights of patients, including their right to privacy and their right to
refuse treatment.
Responsibility - ✔️✔️refers to willingness to respect obligations and to follow through on
promises.
Accountability - ✔️✔️refers to the ability to answer for one's own actions. Standards are
set by The Joint Commission and the ANA. Health care facilities have compliance
officers who are responsible for making sure that the institution remains in compliance
with standards and regulations.
confidentiality - ✔️✔️The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA) mandates protection of the patient's personal health information.
Your patient is about to undergo a controversial orthopedic procedure. The procedure
may cause periods of pain. Although nurses agree to do no harm, this procedure may
be the patient's only treatment choice. This example describes the ethical principle of:
A. autonomy.
B. fidelity.
C. justice.
D. nonmaleficence. - ✔️✔️Answer: D
Rationale: Sometimes to improve a patient's condition, it is necessary to perform a
procedure that will cause pain for the patient. The nurse must weigh the benefits and
the risks with the patient in his or her quest to do no harm.
Value - ✔️✔️A value is a personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom,
or object that sets standards that influence behavior.
Values clarification - ✔️✔️Ethical dilemmas almost always occur in the presence of
conflicting values.
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To resolve ethical dilemmas, one needs to distinguish among values, facts, and opinion.
you learn to tolerate differences in a way that often (although not always) becomes the
key to the resolution of ethical dilemmas.
Deontology - ✔️✔️proposes a system of ethics that is perhaps most familiar to health
care practitioners. Deontology defines actions as right or wrong based on their "right-
making characteristics," such as fidelity to promises, truthfulness, and justice.
Deontology depends on a mutual understanding of justice, autonomy, and goodness.
But it still leaves room for confusion to surface.
Utilitarianism - ✔️✔️Proposes that the value of something is determined by its usefulness.
This philosophy is also known as consequentialism because its main emphasis is on the
outcome or consequence of an action. A third term associated with this philosophy is
teleology, from the Greek word telos, meaning "end," or the study of ends or final
causes. The greatest good for the greatest number of people is the guiding principle for
determining right action in this system.
Feminist Ethics - ✔️✔️Focuses on the inequality between people; Feminist ethics
critiques conventional ethics such as deontology and utilitarianism. It looks to the nature
of relationships to guide participants in making difficult decisions, especially
relationships in which power is unequal, or in which a point of view has become ignored
or invisible. Writers with a feminist perspective tend to concentrate more on practical
solutions than on theory. Feminist ethicists propose that the natural human urge to be
influenced by relationships is a positive value.
Ethics of Care - ✔️✔️Emphasizes the importance of understanding relationships,
especially as they are revealed in personal narratives; promote a philosophy that
focuses on understanding relationships, especially personal narratives. An early
proponent of the ethics of care used the term the one-caring to identify the individual
who provides care, and the cared-for to refer to the patient or patients. In adopting this
language, the author hoped to emphasize the role of feelings.
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