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Basic Principle of Health Care Ethics

This document outlines several universal principles of biomedical ethics that should guide health care practice, including autonomy, veracity, beneficence, nonmaleficence, confidentiality, justice, and role fidelity. Autonomy refers to a patient's right to make their own medical decisions freely without coercion. Beneficence means acts that promote patient well-being and prevent harm. Nonmaleficence is the obligation not to inflict harm. Confidentiality and justice relate to patient privacy and fair distribution of resources. Role fidelity means faithfully practicing within the constraints of one's professional role.

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Basic Principle of Health Care Ethics

This document outlines several universal principles of biomedical ethics that should guide health care practice, including autonomy, veracity, beneficence, nonmaleficence, confidentiality, justice, and role fidelity. Autonomy refers to a patient's right to make their own medical decisions freely without coercion. Beneficence means acts that promote patient well-being and prevent harm. Nonmaleficence is the obligation not to inflict harm. Confidentiality and justice relate to patient privacy and fair distribution of resources. Role fidelity means faithfully practicing within the constraints of one's professional role.

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Siena College Taytay

CHAPTER III:
College of Nursing BASIC
PRINCIPLE OF HEALTH CARE ETHICS

Applied Ethics is “the philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of


particular issues in private and public life that are matters of moral judgment".

 Universal Principles of Biomedical Ethics


A. Autonomy /gk autos-self; nomos-governance/
Form of personal liberty wherein the individual is free to choose and
implement one’s own decisions, free from deceit, duress, constraint or
coercion.
3 Basic Elements involved in the process:
o Ability to decide
o The power to Act upon your decisions
o Respect for the individual autonomy of others
B. Veracity /L veritas-truth/
The habitual pursuit and of adherence to truth.

C. Beneficence /L benific-well/
Suggests acts of mercy and charity. See Hippocratic Oath p45 as stated that
“The nurses primary commitment is to the welfare, safety of the client.”

D. Nonmaleficence:
Beneficence: The health care professionals ought to prevent and remove evil
or harm and
promote good.
Nonmaleficence: Ought not to inflict harm.

E. Confidentiality: Ensuring that information is accessible only to those


authorized to have access.
The following are excerpts and restated from the American Patients Bill of
Rights:
5. The patients have the right to every consideration of his privacy in his
medical care program.
6. The patient has the right to confidentiality to all his medical records.

F. Justice:
Distributive Justice in health care: as one struggles in distribution of scarce
available resources.
Methods for distribution of goods and services in our society provide
measure in due share:
To each… an equal share (1); according to need (2); according to effort
(3); according to contribution (4); according to merit (5); according to
ability to pay (6).

G. Role Fidelity /F fidélité-faithful/: “strict conformity to truth or fact”

Edge R. and Groves J. R. (1999) Ethics of Health Care: A guide for Clinical Practice. C & E
Publishing Inc.
San Juan Metro Manila. 2nd Edition. Pp.39-51.
Siena College Taytay
CHAPTER III:
College of Nursing BASIC
PRINCIPLE OF HEALTH CARE ETHICS

Whatever the assigned role the ethics of health care requires the practitioner
it should be practice faithfully within the constraints of the role.
Most often areas of acceptable practice are contained and prescribed by the
scope of practice of the state legislation that enables that profession’s
practice. (See Nursing Act of 2002)

Edge R. and Groves J. R. (1999) Ethics of Health Care: A guide for Clinical Practice. C & E
Publishing Inc.
San Juan Metro Manila. 2nd Edition. Pp.39-51.

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