NURS 2730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ethical Decision, Primum Non Nocere, Signify
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Interpretations or conclusions that people accept as true: based more on faith than fact, may or may not be true, do not necessarily involve values. Attitudes: mental positions or feelings toward a person, an object or idea, lasts over time, whereas a belief may be short lives, attitudes = positive or negative, beliefs = true or false, vary greatly. Value transmission: learned through observation/experience, heavily influenced by a person"s sociocultural environment, cultural, ethnic, religious, family and peers. Hcps, etc: patient needs may conflict with institutional policies, hcp preferences, family needs, etc, the nurses first loyalty is to the patient according to the can. Principles-based ethics: widely known approach to health care ethics, original principles of bioethics, autonomy (respect for persons) Nursing codes of ethics: no single theory is universally applicable, a code of ethics is a set of ethical principles that.
