Accountability - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️the support of a particular cause.
Nurses do this to ensure the health, safety, and rights of a patient are being met.
Autonomy - ✔️✔️freedom from external control or influence; independence
This concept can be applied to patients and providers.
Beneficence - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️a set of guiding principles that all members of a profession accept.
Collective statement about the groups expectations and standards of behavior.
confidentiality - ✔️✔️the act of holding information in confidence, not to be released to
unauthorized individuals.
Protection and safety of patient information
Consequentialism - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️defines actions as right or wrong on the basis of their "right-making
characteristics" such as fidelity to promises, truthfulness and justice.
Ethics - ✔️✔️the study of conduct and character
Ethics of Care - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️refers to the agreement to keep promises by following through on your
action and interventions
Justice - ✔️✔️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 - ✔️✔️the avoidance of hair or hurt
Responsibility - ✔️✔️a willingness to respect one's professional obligations and to follow
through
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