Ethical Principles
Advocating for enhanced mental health services in an underserved neighborhood
Justice
The duty to be honest or truthful
Veracity
Involves any action that causes a person to fear being touched, without consent or authority, in a way that is offensive, insulting, or physically injurious
Assault
Involves harmful or unwarranted contact with a client; actual harm or injury may or may not have occurred
Battery
Refers to one's duty to benefit or to promote good for others
Beneficence
A client with persistent depression is considering electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The nurse has seen ECT be effective in other cases. When the client expresses fear and doubt about undergoing ECT, the nurse tries to talk the client into it, because the nurse truly believes it will help the client. Which two ethical concepts are in conflict?
Beneficence and Autonomy
Faithfulness to duties, obligations, and promises.
Fidelity
Refers to the obligation to honor commitments and contracts
Fidelity
The nurse tells the client, "I will return to give you pain medication in 1 hour." The nurse returns in 1 hour.
Fidelity
Which ethical principle requires a nurse to prevent clients from harming themselves or others?
Nonmaleficence
Threatening to give a patient a shot is:
assault
