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    Ethical Principles
    Traditional Principles

    There are two fundamental tenents of the traditional approach to ethics:

    Paternalism - the role of father (i.e. father knows best model) - the need to protect
    someone from his or her own judgements.

    Reparation - the obligation to repair any harm caused to others accidentally or on


    purpose.

    Contemporary Principles

    These principles are described in Egan's - key components of each principle is the professional
    duty required to uphold each principle, and the patient right that is the foundation of each
    principle.

    Autonomy

    Duty: informed consent - provide information to patient about care

    Patient right: to decide their own course of treatment and to follow a plan which they
    freely agree to.

    Veracity (Truth-telling)
    Duty: health care provider and patient must tell the truth - carries over into
    documentation and medical record keeping

    A patient who withholds information, or provides untrue information, places self at


    risk - and makes the health care provider job difficult

    Patient right: The right to be told the truth. Benevolent deception, while seemingly


    well intentioned, often creates more problems than it solves.

    Nonmaleficence

    Duty: to avoid harming patients and to actively prevent harm when possible

    Double effect: Action can have both a good and harmful effect - does the good
    outweigh the bad - is the intentional good more desireable than avoiding the
    unintentional bad?

    Patient right: the right not to be harmed by the care provider

    Beneficence

    Duty: provider actively contributes to the health and well-being of the patient

    Quality of Life: Beneficence is often the basis for quality of life dilemmas - Should
    we do everything possible regardless of the eventual outcome? Would it be more
    beneficient not to do everything?

    Advanced directives: Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990. Places decisions


    regarding end of life care in the hands of the patient. Does the patient fully
    understand the consequences of their choices? When do these decisions apply?
    When will they be ignored? Even patients with chronic disease who have living
    wills have to receive appropriate care for acute, immediately life threatening
    conditions that are unrelated to the chronic condition.

    Patient Right: right to have their health and well-being promoted

    Confidentiality (qualified rather than an absolute principle)

    Duty: provider must not share information about patient unless with others involved in
    their care

    Harm Principle: does the confidentiality of information result in placing other


    vulnerable individuals @ risk? Decision may be pre-empted by law: i.e. reporting
    of child abuse, communicable diseases, injuries due to violence, etc.
    Patient right: to have their information protected from those who do not need to know
    it

    Justice: fair distribution of care - act or process of providing equal care to all

    Duty: give same quality of care to every patient regardless of socio-economic status.

    Patient right: at the heart of the current health care reform debate!

    distributive justice equal and fair, rationed, or with-held?

    compenstory justice compensation for damages as the result of negligence or


    malpractice

    Role Duty:

    Duty: understand the limits of their role and practice with fidelity.

    Patient Right: to be cared for by professionals competent in their field and who
    function within their scope of practice

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