Values Clarification

1. What are values and moral values?
2. List 3 values that are extremely important to you in your personal life
3. Where do you find support for these values?
4. Describe specific nursing interventions that might be aimed at managing
   conflict in a professional manner and give examples of how nursing codes would guide such actions.
5. Read the “Ask Yourself” box on page 101 (B&N). Answer the four bullet points related to the scenario
6. Compare Gilligan’s Psychological development of Women to Kohlber’g moral development. What are the similarities and differences?
7. What are the differences between Moral uncertainty and a Moral/Ethical dilemma?
8. Give an example of what might cause you moral distress in the clinical setting
9. Are stakeholders important to consider when making an ethical decision?
10. What is the difference between Kant’s Categorical Imperative and Consequentialism?
11. Have you ever used any of the rationalizations in Josephson’s Primer? If so which one(s)? How did you feel afterward?

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