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.