Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing The Art and Science of Nursing Care

CHAPTER 6 VALUES, ETHICS, AND ADVOCACY 29

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f.Most nurses are born with a natural ability

to behave in an ethically professional way.

6.Which of the following are key principles of

the Beauchamp/Childress principle-based

approach to bioethics? (Select all that apply.)

a.Autonomy

b.Nonmaleficence

c.Human dignity

d.Beneficence

e.Altruism

f.Justice

DEVELOPING YOUR

KNOWLEDGE BASE

FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS

1.When a young boy is left to explore values

on his own with no guidance from his parents,

the parents are using a(n)

approach to value transmission.

2.Parents who encourage their children to seek

more than one solution to a problem and

weigh the consequences of each are practicing

the mode of value transmission.

3.When a nurse analyzes her feelings regarding

choices that need to be made when several

alternatives are presented and decides whether

these choices are rationally made, she is

engaging in the practice of.

4.A nurse who is proud and happy about his

decision to further his education is involved in

the step of the process of valuing.

5.A(n) is an organization of

values in which each value is ranked along a

continuum of importance, often leading to a

personal code of conduct.

6. is the protection and support of
   another’s rights.

MATCHING EXERCISES

Match the term in Part A with the correct

definition listed in Part B.

PART A

a.Value

b.Ethical agency

c.Advocacy

d.Values clarification

e.Ethics

f.Morals

g.Ethical dilemma

h.Value system

i.Ethical distress

PART B

1. Two (or more) clear moral principles
   apply, but they support mutually
   inconsistent courses of action.


2. A process of discovery allowing a person
   to discover what choices to make when
   alternatives are presented and to identify
   whether these choices are rationally made
   or the result of previous conditioning


3. A personal belief about worth that acts as
   a standard to guide one’s behavior


4. Personal or communal standards of right
   and wrong


5. Ethical problem in which the person
   knows the right thing to do, but
   institutional constraints make it nearly
   impossible to pursue the right actions


6. A commitment to developing one’s abil-
   ity to act ethically


7. A systematic inquiry into the principles
   of right and wrong conduct, of virtue and
   vice, and of good and evil, as they relate
   to conduct


8. The protection and support of another’s
   rights
   Match the mode of value transmission in Part
   A with the appropriate example listed in Part B.
   Answers may be used more than once.
   PART A
   a.Modeling
   b.Moralizing
   c.Laissez-faire
   d.Rewarding and punishing
   e.Responsible choice
   PART B
   9. A boy receiving good grades in school is
   taken to a video arcade to celebrate.


9. A girl is encouraged by her parents to
   explore all aspects of her own personal
   code of ethics.

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