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Values, Ethics,

and Advocacy

Learning Outcomes
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Explain how cognitive development, values,


moral frameworks, and codes of ethics affect
moral decisions.
Explain how nurses use knowledge of values to
make ethical decisions and facilitate ethical
decision making by clients.
When presented with an ethical situation,
identify the moral issues and principles
involved.
Explain the uses and limitations of professional
codes of ethics.
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Learning Outcomes
5. Discuss common ethical issues
currently facing health care
professionals.
6. Describe ways in which nurses can
enhance their ethical decision
making and practice.
7. Discuss the advocacy role of the
nurse.
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Factors Influencing Moral


Decisions
Cognitive development
Values
Moral framework
Codes of ethics

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Cognitive Development
Moral decisions require persons to
think and reason
Reasoning is a cognitive function
Ability to make decisions develops
over the lifespan

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Values
Enduring beliefs or attitudes about the
worth of a person, object, idea, or
action
May be unspoken or even subconscious
Underlie all moral dilemmas
Influence decisions and actions
including nurses ethical decision
making
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Moral Development
Process of learning difference
between right and wrong
Begins in childhood and continues
throughout life
Moral development theories provide
frameworks to view and clarify moral
and ethical dilemmas

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Code of Ethics
Formal statement of a groups ideals
and values
Serves as a standard for professional
actions
Provides ethical standards for
professional behavior

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Values Clarification
The following steps can help clarify values:
1. List alternatives
2. Examine possible consequences of
choices
3. Choose freely
4. Feel good about the choice
5. Affirm the choice
6. Act on the choice
7. Act with a pattern
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Moral Issues
Arouse conscience
Concerned with important values and
norms evoke words such as good,
bad, wrong, should and ought

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Moral Principles
Statements about broad, general,
philosophic concepts
Provide the foundation for moral rules
which are specific prescriptions for
actions
Useful in ethical discussions
May be able to agree on principles that
apply
May serve as a basis for the solution to
the problem
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Understanding Legal and


Ethical Issues Video

Click here to view a video on legal and ethical issues.


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