Values, Ethnics, & Advocacy Nursing Notes

Advocacy

Protection and support of another’s rights

Autonomy

Self-determination; being independent and self-governing

Beneficence

Principle of doing good

Cared- based approach

Approach to bioethics that directs attention to the specific situations of individual patients viewed within the context of their life narrative

Code of Ethics

Principles that reflect the primary goals, values, and obligations of the profession

Ethical Dilemma

Situation that arises when attempted adherence to basic ethical principles results in two conflicting courses of action

Ethics

System dealing with standards of character and behavior related to what is right and wrong

Fidelity

Keeping promises and commitments made to others

Justice

Process that distributes benefits, risks, and costs fairly

Moral Distress

Occurs when you know the ethically correct action to take but you are constrained from taking it. Whether stemming from internal or external factors, moral distress profoundly threatens our core values.

Moral Resilience

Developed capacity to respond well to morally distressing experiences and to emerge strong

Morals

Like ethics, concerned with what constitutes right action; more informal and personal than the term ethics

Nonmaleficence

Principle of avoiding evil

Values

Set of beliefs that are meaningful in life and that influence relationships with others

Value System

Organization of values ranked along a continuum of importance

Value Clarification

Process by which people come to understand their own values and value system

Virtues

Human excellences; cultivated dispositions of character and conduct that motivate and enable us to be good human beings

Altruism

Is a concern for the welfare and well-being of others

Viracity

Telling the truth & not lying

Nursing Ethics

A subset of bioethics .

Principle-based approach

An approach to bioethics that offers specific action guides

Florence Nightingale

* Define nursing both an science & art. The founder of modern nursing.

Clara Barton

Established the Red Cross in the United States in 1882. Volunteered to care for wounds and feed Union soldiers during the Civil War.

Lillian Wald

Established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick poor of the Lower East Side in New York City; the founder of public health nursing

Mary Mahoney

Graduated from New England Hospital for Women & Children in 1879 becoming the 1st African American nurse.

Caregiver

The provision of care of a patient by meeting physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological, sociocultural, & Spiritual.