Question

Principles of ethical practice includes the following, EXCEPT
1. Justice
2. Respect for autonomy
3. Maleficence
4. Beneficence
5.

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Maleficence

Explanation

• Ethics is the study of good conduct, character, and motive.
• It is concerned with determining what is good or valuable for all people.

Ethical Principle

• Autonomy is the capacity to think, decide and act on the basis of such thought and decision, freely and independently.
• Beneficence emphasizes the moral importance of doing good to others; in the context of bioethics, it refers to the promotion of what is best for the patient.
• Non-maleficence is often referred to as the opposite side of the coin to beneficence. It states that we should not harm patients. It differs from beneficence in the scope of its application: we have a prima facie duty not to harm anyone.
• Justice is a principle with four components: distributive justice; respect for the law; rights and retributive justice. Distributive justice is concerned with the equitable allocation of resources; the second refers to whether the fact that an act is or is not against the law, is of moral relevance; rights are considered to be special advantages with correlative duties to provide them; retributive justice refers to making right when a wrong has been perpetrated.
• Fidelity refers to meeting the patient's reasonable expectations regarding respect, competence, subscribing to a professional code of conduct, following policies and procedures honoring agreements made between clinician and patient.
• Truth-telling relates to the disclosure of information in a respectful and compassionate way

ICN Code of Ethics

• Nurses and people
• Nurses and practice 
• Nurses and society
• Nurses and co-workers
• Nurses and profession