benthamism
Utilitarianism, also known as utilitarianism, is an ethical theory that takes the utilitarian effect of people's behavior as the basis or basic evaluation standard of moral value and emphasizes the universality and maximum reality of the actual value of behavior. Utilitarianism emphasizes "utility principle" and "doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people". In nursing ethics, utilitarianism advocates that nurses' behavior should be based on satisfying the health interests of patients and most people in society.
The contents include: (1) meeting the utilitarian needs of patients' health, and putting it in the first place. At the same time, we should understand and affirm the legitimate interests of hospitals and nurses, and gradually meet their material and spiritual needs. (2) Meet the health utility needs of most people in society. In the case of limited health resources, if there is a contradiction between individual patients and the health utility of most people in society, under the premise of ensuring the basic health needs of each patient as much as possible, rare health resources can only be allocated according to medical standards and social value standards, so as to minimize the loss of patients who have not obtained rare health resources.
The basic categories of nursing ethics include: rights and obligations, emotion and conscience, caution and confidentiality, honor and happiness. The ethical norm of nurse-patient relationship means that both nurses and patients should restrain and standardize their behavior according to certain ethical principles and norms. The selfless moral realm is the highest moral realm of nursing ethics. This moral realm is the sublimation of public and private fields, the ultimate direction of nursing ethics development, the realm that every nursing staff should strive to pursue, and the moral thought pursued by the whole society.
Specific principles of nursing ethics