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Ethical Considerations in Health Care: Key Terms and Concepts

This chapter explores essential ethical considerations in the healthcare environment, emphasizing the significance of moral behavior, beliefs, and the nursing profession's Code of Ethics. It discusses key moral theories such as teleological and deontological approaches, focusing on principles like autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice. The text offers guidance on resolving ethical dilemmas by highlighting case summaries and moral components. Additionally, it addresses end-of-life decisions, including the right-to-die legislation, competence, and advance directives, underscoring the complexities of moral choices in healthcare.

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Ethical Considerations in Health Care: Key Terms and Concepts

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  1. Chapter 13 Ethical Considerations in the Health Care Environment

  2. Key Terms • Ethics • Study of morals and moral choices • Moral behavior • Action emanating from conscience rather than actual evidence • Belief • Opinion accepted as true or real

  3. Code of Ethics for Nurses • Rules or standards of conduct of members of the nursing profession

  4. Nursing: A Social Policy Statement • Expresses the value of the social contract between society and profession of nursing

  5. Moral Theories • Teleological • Utilitarianism • Deontological

  6. Principled Theories • Autonomy • Nonmaleficence • Beneficence • Justice

  7. Resolving Ethical Dilemmas • Clearly summarize the complete and relevant parts of the case • Identify and seek missing information • Identify moral components • State dilemma correctly • Identify course of action

  8. End of Life Decisions • Right-to-Die Legislation • Decisions • Who can make them? • Competence versus incompetence? • Advance directives?

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