Nursing 1214 Exam #2: Code of Ethics and Chapter 13
Transcultural Nursing
Nurses who study the impact of culture related to patient care; implementing those values in their care
Modeling
Observing how their parents or significant adults in their lives respond to major/minor illness
Ethnocentrism
The inclination to view one's own cultural group as the standard by which to judge the value of other cultural groups
Provision 8
The nurse collaborates with other health professionals and the public to protect and promote human rights, health diplomacy, and health initiatives.
Provision 4
The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice, makes decisions, and takes action consistent with the obligation to provide optimal care.
Provision 5
The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth.
Provision 1
The nurse practices with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, worth, and personal attributes of every person, without prejudice.
Provision 3
The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient.
Provision 2
The nurse's primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population.
Provision 6
The nurse, through individual and collective action, establishes, maintains, and improves the moral environment of the work setting and the conditions of employment, conducive to quality health care.
Provision 7
The nurse, whether in research, practice, education, or administration, contributes to the advancement of the profession through research and scholarly inquiry, professional standards development, and generation of nursing and health policies.
Provision 9
The profession of nursing, collectively through its professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social justice into nursing and health policy.
Utilitarianism
Moral rightness of an action is determined solely by its consequences
Deontology
An act was moral if its motives or intentions were good
Adjusting to Illness
Disbelief and denial, Irritability and Anger, Attempting to gain control, depression and grief, and acceptance and participation
Nonmaleficence
Do no harm
Beneficence
Doing good
Virtue Ethics
Emphasizes the character of the decision-maker
Coping
A term that describes the strategies a person uses to assess and manage demands
Compassion fatigue
A condition in which one experiences loss of physical energy, burnout, accident proneness, emotional breakdowns, apathy, indifference, poor judgement, and disinterest in being introspective
Ethical Decision-Making
Assess Diagnosis Plan Implement Evaluate
spirtuality
Beliefs in a higher power, interconnected was among living beings, and an awareness of life's purpose/meaning
Resilience
Bounce back; adapt despite challenges
Chronic illness
Develops gradually, requiring ongoing medical attention and may continue for a life time Ex: diabetes, hypertension
Autonomy
Individuals have the right to determine their own actions and the freedom to make their own decisions
Acute illness
Severe symptoms that are relatively short lived; symptoms tend to appear suddenly, progress steadily, and subside quickly.
Exacerbation
Symptoms reappear or worsen
remission
Symptoms subside/disappear
Veracity
Tell the truth
Principalism
uses the key ethical principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice to resolve ethical dilemmas.