Nursing 4320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moral Disengagement, In Essence, Consequentialism
24 Oct 2017
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A just culture" for patient safety include all the following except: focus on system issues, blaming individuals for mistakes, learning from events when the occur, reporting near misses. Dislocsure to the patient/sdm about patient safety incidents should include an apology. All of the following statements about an apology are true except: it"s the right thing to do, sincerity is important to the patients, it is consistent with honesty and transparency, it is an admission of guilt. Values conflict: arise in sits in which our actions or those of others are at odds with our beliefs, ex. abortion, which values could be at conflict here, value to preserve life and autonomy. Increases self-awareness: you know that something may bother you and you know how to respond, facilitates decisions, when faced with an ethical dilemma, it helps us make those decisions. Invites other perspectives, nurses are socialized differently then other health care providers.
