Nursing 2220A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Mnemonic, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion
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2200 week 7 readings p. 61-75: 300-310, 405-419. Ethical nursing practice requires chns to be able to reflect critically upon their practice, make sound ethical decisions, and take appropriate action. Providing safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care. Ethics refers to those values, norms, moral principles, virtues, and traditions that guide human conduct. Often ideas that reflect what is good or right and what we ought, and ought not, to do are associated with ethics. Ethics is also a specialized area of philosophy. The term bioethics, also defined as healthcare ethics, refers to the study of ethical issues that are related to health and healthcare. Cna: the fair distribution of society"s benefits, responsibilities, and their consequences. It focuses on the relative position of on social group in relationship to others in society as well as on the root causes of disparities and what can be done to eliminate them.