NURS 3225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Promotion, Futile Medical Care, Employee Assistance Program
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Last week more on theories and principles: elements of informed consent, legal obligations, psda (1990, hipaa, 4 criteria for malpractice vs. negligence, models to assist with analysis, role of the ethics committee. Intentional nondisclosure: therapeutic privilege, use of placebos, unavoidable trust, slippery slope arguments, dignity, moral suffering, distress and rectitude, duty to warn. Guide to the code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Deals with: (virtue ethics: character (what sort of person one ought to be, conduct (how one should act) Deals with duties and obligations of nurses to (deontology): patients, other health professionals, the profession, the wider public, global humanity. Why ethics in nursing: because (cid:374)u(cid:396)ses , serve vulnerable persons, promise to protect patients, depend on public trust, have a moral relationship with patients that gives rise to ethical obligations. Normative ethics: what is right/wrong, good/evil individual or collective choices. Applied ethics: right/wrong, good/evil of actions in a specific profession or discipline.
