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    Ethical principles continued

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 1


    Presentation outlines

    Ethical principles
    Beneficence
    Non malfeasance

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 2


    Learning objectives
    Learning objectives
    At the end of the session, the trainee will be able
    to:
    1. Describe the concepts of beneficence
    2. Describe our limits to do good
    3. Discuss the core issues in nonmaleficence

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 3


    Beneficence- Do Good

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 4


    Beneficence cont’d
    • Beneficence is doing or promoting
    good.
    • It means one to act in ways that
    benefit another
    • This principle is the basis for all
    health care providers.

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 5


    Beneficence cont’d
    Nurses take beneficent actions when they
    1. Administer pain medication,
    2. Perform a dressing to promote wound
    healing or
    3. Providing emotional support to a client
    who is anxious or depressed.
    This principle provides nursing’s context and
    justification.

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 6


    Beneficence cont’d

    It lays the groundwork for the trust


    that society places in the nursing
    profession and the trust that
    individuals place in particular nurses or
    health care agencies.

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 7


    Beneficence cont’d
    The principle of beneficence has three
    components:
    1. Doing good, or promoting welfare
    2. Prevent harm/Eliminating already
    existing harm
    3. Remove evil or harm

    Principle: maximizing benefits and minimizing


    harms and wrongs --- “do good”
    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 8
    Beneficence cont’d

    • The principle of beneficence finds


    expression in a favorable risk/benefit
    assessment or ratio

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 9


    Beneficence cont’d
    Risks:
    – Risk of harm occurring to patients who
    is on health care
    – Kinds of harm – physical pain or injury,
    psychological, social, economic, legal
    – Two key aspects of risk assessment:
    • Probability that harm may occur
    • Severity or magnitude of harm if it
    does occur
    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 10
    Beneficence cont’d
    Benefits:
    • Positive value related to individual/patients
    health or welfare with regard to the nursing
    or health care interventions, research, for
    research subject, and others

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 11


    Beneficence cont’d
    What limits our ability to do good?
    1. Nature of time and space – ones own
    limitations and the limits of instruments
    available
    2. Ones own limited talents
    3. Our obligation to avoid evil – i.e. principle
    of non maleficence limits the principle of
    beneficence

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 12


    Beneficence cont’d
    E.g. You saw a drowning baby in a stream

    You intend to rescue – beneficence

    Rescue attempt may threaten your life – non


    malfeasance

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 13


    Non - maleficence - avoid evil

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 14


    Non malfeasance

    • Essence of Hippocratic tradition – “first do


    no harm”
    • Non malfeasance means to avoid doing harm
    • It is the converse of beneficence. Concept of
    non-malfeasance (“passive”):
    • Refraining from deliberate infliction of harm
    on persons
    • Principle: “avoid evil”
    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 15
    Non malfeasance

    ♣ Problem – recognizing what exactly is harm?


    ♣ When working with clients, health care workers
    must not cause injury or suffering to clients.
    ♣ It is to avoid causing deliberate harm, risk of
    harm and harm that occurs during the
    performance of beneficial acts.
    E.g. - Infection prevention
    - Experimental research that have negative
    consequences on the client.
    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 16
    Non malfeasance

    • Non malfeasance also means avoiding harm as


    a consequence of good.
    • In that cases the harm must be weighed against
    the expected benefit

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 17


    Any Question, comment or suggestion?

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 18


    Summary
    • Take few minutes to write what you learnt to
    day
    • Choose the most important points you got
    from the lesson.
    • Jot out how/where do you incorporate the
    lesson you got today to your future nursing
    practice.

    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 19


    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!


    11/08/2024 Ethical principles + Dilemma 20a

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