Brunner and Suddarth's Medsurge
Patient and Client - (answer)"To suffer and to Lean"
Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation - (answer)SBAR
Medical-Surgical NSG - (answer)A specialty area of practice that provides nsg services to patients from
adolescence through the end-of-life in a variety of inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.
Community - (answer)An interacting population of individuals living together within a larger social
structure.
Discharge Planning - (answer)An essential component of facilitating the transition of the patient from
the acute care to the community or home care setting, or for facilitating of transfer.
Hospice Nursing - (answer)A specialty area of nursing which nurses provide palliative care that promotes
comfort, peace, and dignity for pts who are dying.
Metacognition - (answer)The examination if one's own reasoning or thought process
Ethics - (answer)The formal, systematic study of moral beliefs to understand, analyze, and evaluate
matters of right and wrong.
Morality - (answer)Specific values, characters, or actions whose outcomes are often examined through
systematic ethical analysis
Teleologic or consequentialism - (answer)Ethics that focus on the ends or consequences of the actions
Utilitarianism - (answer)"Greatest good for the greatest number"
Deontology or Formalist Theory - (answer)Ethical standards or principles exist independently of the ends
or consequences.
, Brunner and Suddarth's Medsurge
Moral Dillemma - (answer)Situation in which a clear conflict exists between 2 or more moral principles
or competing moral claims or principles, nurses must "CHOOSE THE LESSER EVIL".
Moral Problems - (answer)Competing claim but one claim or principle is clearly dominant.
Moral Uncertainty - (answer)One cannot accurately define what the moral situation is basta there's
something wrong.
Moral distress - (answer)One is aware of the correct course of action but institutional constraints stand
in the way of pursuing it.
Autonomy - (answer)Ethical Principle: self-determination
Beneficence - (answer)Ethical Principle: perform deeds of mercy, kindness, friendship, charity, and the
like.
maleficence - (answer)Ethical Principle: duty to not inflict harm
Double effect
- the action itself is good or morally neutral
- agent sincerely intends the good and not the evil effect
- good effect is not achieved by means of the evil effect
- there is proportionate/favorable balance of good over evil - (answer)Ethical principle: a principle that
may morally justify some actions that produce both good and evil effects.
4 criteria
Patient and Client - (answer)"To suffer and to Lean"
Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation - (answer)SBAR
Medical-Surgical NSG - (answer)A specialty area of practice that provides nsg services to patients from
adolescence through the end-of-life in a variety of inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.
Community - (answer)An interacting population of individuals living together within a larger social
structure.
Discharge Planning - (answer)An essential component of facilitating the transition of the patient from
the acute care to the community or home care setting, or for facilitating of transfer.
Hospice Nursing - (answer)A specialty area of nursing which nurses provide palliative care that promotes
comfort, peace, and dignity for pts who are dying.
Metacognition - (answer)The examination if one's own reasoning or thought process
Ethics - (answer)The formal, systematic study of moral beliefs to understand, analyze, and evaluate
matters of right and wrong.
Morality - (answer)Specific values, characters, or actions whose outcomes are often examined through
systematic ethical analysis
Teleologic or consequentialism - (answer)Ethics that focus on the ends or consequences of the actions
Utilitarianism - (answer)"Greatest good for the greatest number"
Deontology or Formalist Theory - (answer)Ethical standards or principles exist independently of the ends
or consequences.
, Brunner and Suddarth's Medsurge
Moral Dillemma - (answer)Situation in which a clear conflict exists between 2 or more moral principles
or competing moral claims or principles, nurses must "CHOOSE THE LESSER EVIL".
Moral Problems - (answer)Competing claim but one claim or principle is clearly dominant.
Moral Uncertainty - (answer)One cannot accurately define what the moral situation is basta there's
something wrong.
Moral distress - (answer)One is aware of the correct course of action but institutional constraints stand
in the way of pursuing it.
Autonomy - (answer)Ethical Principle: self-determination
Beneficence - (answer)Ethical Principle: perform deeds of mercy, kindness, friendship, charity, and the
like.
maleficence - (answer)Ethical Principle: duty to not inflict harm
Double effect
- the action itself is good or morally neutral
- agent sincerely intends the good and not the evil effect
- good effect is not achieved by means of the evil effect
- there is proportionate/favorable balance of good over evil - (answer)Ethical principle: a principle that
may morally justify some actions that produce both good and evil effects.
4 criteria
