NUFT 202 EXAM 3 | 210 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
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Ethics - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER - 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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.
Advocacy - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER refers to willingness to respect obligations and to
follow through on promises.
Accountability - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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 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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER Ethical dilemmas almost always occur in the
presence of conflicting values.
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 - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER 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.
