From nursing degree course

1. Values,
Beliefs & Ethics
Tim G
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

3. What are values
and beliefs?
Consider how you would describe them,
and then how are they related?

4. What are morals?
Ethics?

5. Four ethical principles
Beauchamp & Childress
Raanon & Gillon

6. Law & the Code
leads to a ‘good’
nurse?

7. The Code leads to a ‘good’ nurse?
Are all nurses morally and professionally competent at point of
registration?
No assumption that nurses develop morally as they work.
Individuals who are “personally accountable for actions and
omissions” … are we islands?
Statements beginning with “You must ….”, and yet it asks nurses
to be virtuous?

8. Utilitarianism
Deontology
Virtue Ethics

9. Deontology
Kant
“Everyone is obligated to act only in ways that respect
the human dignity and moral rights of all persons”.
Do as you would be done by

10. The Categorical Imperative
1. Act only according to that maxim by which you can
also will that it would become a universal law.
2. Act in such a way that you always treat humanity,
whether in your own person or in the person of any
other, never simply as a means, but always at the
same time as an end.
3. Act as though you were, through your maxims, a
law-making member of a kingdom of ends.
Tim G

11. Virtue Ethics
Aristotle

12. Eudaimonia
Establishes what is virtuous.
The goal is ‘good’.
The ultimate goal is Eudaimonia.
“flourish”
Not precise knowledge, like logic and mathematics, but
rather a general knowledge, a practical discipline rather than
a theoretical one.
Develop an “eye for a situation”.
Context is part of the decision process
Tim G