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What Is Health Care Ethics? Health care ethics (a/k/a medical ethics or bioethics), at its simplest, is a set of moral principles, beliefs and values that guide us in making choices about medical care. At the core of health care ethics is our sense of right and wrong and our beliefs about rights we possess and duties we owe others. Thinking carefully about the ethical aspects of health care decisions helps us make choices that are right, good, fair and just.
Each health care provider abides by a code of ethics that regulates his or her behavior. Ethics relates to moral principles and actions. Beneficence is an ethical principle that addresses the idea that a nurse's actions should promote good. Doing good is thought of as doing what is best for the patient. Beneficence should not be confused with the closely related ethical principle of nonmaleficence, which states that one should not do harm to patients.