NLM FINALS

• Professional development


  Continuing education, new skills gained, career training after entering the workfield
• Personal development


  Looking inward to achieve a purpose in life and to focus on ways to better oneself
• Basic ethical principles in healthcare

  • Autonomy
  • Beneficence
  • Fidelity
  • Justice
  • Nonmaleficence
  • Paternalism
  • Respect for others
  • Utility
  • Veracity
• Autonomy


  One's own freedom, liberty of choice and responsibility for those choices, free from constraint or force
• Beneficence


  One's actions of kindness and mercy should be done in an effort of promoting good
• Fidelity


  One must keep their promises and commitment
• Justice


  Having a fair, just and equal treatment to the people, regardless of their differences
• Nonmaleficence


  Reminds the nurses to do no harm if one cannot do good
• Paternalism


  An undesirable principle when a person can make choices for another, limiting their freedom of decision-making
• Respect for others


  Recognises people's rights to decision-making and to live by their choices
• Utility


  What is best for the common good outweighs what is best for the individual
• Veracity


  Healthcare professionals and even patients are bound to tell the truth
• Fundamental responsibilities of nurses

  • Alleviate suffering
  • Prevent illness
  • Promote health
  • Restore health
• Principles in the ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses

  • Nurses and people
  • Nurses and practice
  • Nurses and the profession
  • Nurses and coworkers
• Principles in the Code of Good Governance for Filipino Nurses


  • Service to others
  • Integrity and objectivity
  • Professional competence
  • Solidarity and teamwork
  • Social and civic responsibility
  • Global competitiveness
  • Equality of all professions

  
• Rights of clients/patients


  • Right to competent care
  • Right of confidentiality of information
  • Freedom from harm
  • Right to informed consent
  • Right to withdraw from participation
• Informed consent


  Necessary information of and understanding so a genuine deliberation is carried out before making moral decision on a medical treatment
• Elements of informed consent

  • Competence
  • Disclosure
  • Comprehension
  • Voluntariness
• Patients have the right to informed choice, the right to refuse treatment, and the right to self-determination
• The DOH Patients' Bill of Rights states that every person has the right to appropriate medical care and humane treatment
• Informed consent


  What a patient is told or informed during consent negotiation, what might happen to the patient
• Comprehension


  Whether the information given has been understood
• Voluntariness


  From the patient's own free will without being forced, in a deliberate manner
• A nursing problem is a specific aspect of a patient's condition that requires intervention by the nurse.
• Nursing diagnosis is an individual's response or reaction to actual or potential health problems/life processes that affect the achievement of desired outcomes.
• The purpose of the Nursing Process is to identify, plan, implement, evaluate, document, and communicate nursing care
• Professional development


  Continuing education, new skills gained, career training after entering the workfield
• Personal development


  Looking inward to achieve a purpose in life and to focus on ways to better oneself
• Examples of personal development

  • Stress management
  • Embracing empathy
  • Getting along well with others
• Autonomy


  • One's own freedom, liberty of choice and responsibility for those choices, free from constraint or force
• Beneficence


  • One's actions of kindness and mercy should be done in an effort of promoting good, benefiting the health of clients, preventing complications or illness, reducing suffering, assisting towards a peaceful death
• Fidelity


  • One must keep their promises and commitment
• Justice


  • Fair, just and equal treatment to people, regardless of their differences
• Nonmaleficence


  • Do no harm if one cannot do good
• Paternalism


  • An undesirable principle when a person can make choices for another, limiting their freedom of decision-making
• Respect for others


  • Recognises people's rights to decision-making and to live by their choices
• Utility


  • What is best for the common good outweighs what is best for the individual, actions are judged by their usefulness and benefit
• Veracity


  • Healthcare professionals and patients are bound to tell the truth
• Fundamental responsibilities of nurses

  • Alleviate suffering
  • Prevent illness
  • Promote health
  • Restore health
• Principles in the ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses

  • Nurses and people
  • Nurses and practice
  • Nurses and the profession
  • Nurses and coworkers