Nursing 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rights, Moral Reasoning, Professional Responsibility
28 Dec 2015
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O descriptive ethics observation: explanatory ethics give meaning, prescriptive ethics should, ought! and/or groups. About moral practice, beliefs, values, ideals, attitudes, actions, and standards of individuals. Moral reasoning is individual or collective practical reasoning about what, morally, one ought to do. The study of the nature and justification of general ethical principles that can be applied to moral problems. A branch of philosophy focusing on questions of right and wrong, concerned with moral good. Ethics: insight into the moral problems of daily and professional life, rationale and objective guidance to practicing ethically and analyzing ethical problems. From the greek word ethos meaning rules/norms that govern right conduct: what ought to be the right thing to do, the should of human behaviour. Nurses are faced to make ethical decisions every day in practice. Values and perspectives drive the resolution of ethical situations. Ethical situations present in a number of different complexions and fashions: sometimes positively and negatively, change over time .
