HLTH245 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Lifesaving, Hippocratic Oath
24 Feb 2016
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Ethics study of standards of right and wrong in human behaviour how people ought to behave, considering rights and obligations. Ethics is separate from religion, law, and the norm. Ethical standards molded by morals, values and sense of duty (morality) Moral topics: right to die, withholding treatment, do not resuscitate (dnr) orders, withholding information from client, interfering with client"s right to self-determination. Self-determination freedom to make one"s own decisions. Morality code of conduct put forward by society or some other group (religion) Code of conduct accepted by an individual to guide his or her own behaviour or one that given specified conditions would be put forward by all rational persons. Individual morals serve to define personal character while ethics describe an individual"s collection of morals. Difference between ethics and morals: nurse may morally not agree with decision to dnr a client"s infant but ethically she must abide by the decision of the client and the doctor.
