Define Value

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Define Value

• Personal belief about the worth of a given idea,
  attitude, custom or object that sets standards
  that influence behavior

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Values

• What influences our values?
• Why is it important for us to understand our own
  value system and clients value system?
• Are values always positive

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AACN Nursing Values

• Altruism
• Equality
• Esthetics
• Freedom
• Human Dignity
• Justice
• Truth

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How are values transmitted?

• Modeling
• Moralizing
• Laissez-faire
• Responsible Choice
• Reward and punishment

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Values Clarification

• Helps clients gain awareness of personal
  priorities, identify unclear values resolve
  major conflicts between values behavior

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Healthcare ethics

• What is good or right for human health life.

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Ethical Principles

• Autonomy
• Nonmaleficence
• Beneficence
• Justice
• Veracity, Confidentiality, Fidelity

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Moral Theories

• Deontology - looks for existence of essential
  rightness or wrongness, focuses on act rather
  than outcome or consequences
• Utilitarian - considers the consequences of the
  action, greatest good for the greatest number

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Role of the Ethics Committee