ethical principles

autonomy
- Emphasizes persons as autonomous moral agents whose rights to determine there destinies should always be respected
- patients rights
Beneficence
- One's duty to benefit or promote the good of others
- Health care workers who act in the clients best interest are beneficence
- autonomy may be override when that individual has been deemed harmful to self and others
Nonmaleficence
- Abstaining from negative acts towards another
- includes acting carefully to avoid harm-intentionally or unintentionally
Justice
- based on notion of hypothetical social contract b/t free, equal, and rational person
- concept of justice reflects a duty to treat all individuals equally and fairly
veracity

one's duty to always be truthful

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ethical principles

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ethical principles

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2015-05-22T18:15:28Z

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