NUR5011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Virtue Ethics, Primum Non Nocere, Deontological Ethics
3 Jun 2020
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Is concerned with overall welfare (population/group), rather than the individual. The greatest good for the greatest number. The ends justify the means: describe virtue ethics and its relevance to nursing practice, benevolence, caring and compassion, empathy, warmth. Deontology is an ethical theory that uses rules to distinguish right from wrong. Teleological ethical theories are concerned with the consequences of actions which means the basic standards for our actions being morally right or wrong depends on the good or evil generated. Virtue theory is an approach to ethics that emphasizes an individual"s character as the key element of ethical thinking, rather than rules about the acts themselves. Bioethics concerns itself with addressing ethical issues in healthcare, medicine, research, biotechnology, and the environment autonomy is based on the human capacity to direct one"s life according to rational principles. Beneficence is an ethical principle that addresses the idea that a nurse"s actions should promote good.
