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Kellys Criteria
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- The services provided are vital to humanity - the welfare of society
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Caring is the core of professional nursing; using the services of nursing
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interventions
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Informed Consent
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- The process of asking individuals who are scheduled to undergo diagnostic
procedures or surgeries or who are potential research subjects to sign a consent form
once the procedures and risks have been explained and their privacy has been
ensured.
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1) Consent must be given voluntarily
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2) Consent must be given by an individual with the capacity and competence to
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understand
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3) The patient must be given enough information to beth ultimate decision maker
Patient Rights = Patient self determination act, HIPPA:
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patient rights - responsibility that a hospital and its staff have toward patients and
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their families during hospitalization
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patient self-determination - effective Dec. 1, 1991 - this law encourages patients
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to consider which life-prolonging treatment options they desire and to
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document their preferences in case they should later become incapable of
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participating in the decision-making process
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) - federal law passed
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in 1996, designed to protect health insurance coverage for workers and
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their families when they change or lose their jobs
Chapter 5 - Ethics: Basic Concepts for Nursing Practice
4 theories (definitions):
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Deontology: the ethical theory that the rightness or wrongness of an action
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depends on the inherent moral significance of the action
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Virtue Ethics: the system of ethics based on a persons natural tendency to act,
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feel, and judge but developed through training; ethics based on the natural
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traits of the decision maker
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Death with dignity = the philosophical concept that a terminally ill client should be
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allowed to die naturally and comfortably, rather thanexperience a
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comatose, vegetative life prolonged by mechanical support systems.
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Veracity = truthfulness