BASIC PRINCIPLES

OF HEALTH CARE
ETHICS

1.)

Autonomy

In health care, it has come to mean a form

of personal liberty, where the individual is
free to choose and implement ones
decisions , free from deceit, duress,
constraint, or coercion.

 Three basic elements in process:

The ability to decide for without adequate information,
and intellectual competence.
The power to act upon your decisions it is obvious that
those in the death cramps of WORLD WAR II could have
make all the decisions they might have wished but lacked
power to implement them.
The respect the individual anatomy of others it is the
provision of a general respect for personal autonomy for
both practitioner and patient alike that ennobles and
professionalized the process.

2.)

Benevolent Deception

Where the practitioner is allowed to

intentionally withhold information based
his or her sound medical judgment that
to divulge the information might
potentially harm the depressed and
unstable patient.

3.)

Veracity

The special fiduciary relationship that

exist between patients and their health
care practitioners is such that patients
have right to expect higher level of
truthfulness from us.

Fiduciary Relationship

A fiduciary is a person who holds a legal or

ethical relationship of trust with one or
more other parties (person or group of
persons)

4.)

Beneficence

Suggests acts of mercy and charity,

although it certainly may be
expanded to include any action that
benefits another.

 Beneficence in one ought:

One ought to prevent evil or harm
One ought to remove evil or harm
One ought to do or promote good

5.)

Confidentiality

Is an important aspect of the trust

that patients place in health care
professionals.

Example of confidentiality

In other instances, it refers to not

sharing trade secrets and other
company information with
competitors, the press or anyone
outside of your company.

6.)

Justice

The maintenance of this ethical principle

is seemingly very simple in the abstract
and complex in application, as it looks at
the concepts of fairness, just deserts, and
entitlements.

7.)

Non - Malificence

In some way, this seem very similar to

the duty of beneficence, where the
practitioner works to maximize the
good for the patient and to minimize
HARM.

8.)

Role Fidelity

The nature of these specialties shapes the

way in which the individual practitioner
will respond to the basic questions of
biomedical ethics.

Fidelity

It means to be Faithful to agreements

and promises. Nurses have
responsibilities to clients, employers,
government and society

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