futile {Ans: refers to something that is hopeless or serves no useful purpose. In health care discussions, the term refers to interventions unlikely to produce benefit for a patient.}The Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform (TIGER) {Ans: is focused on better preparing the clinical workforce to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care TIGER transformed to Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Competence in informatics is not the same as computer competency.}Institutional Resources {Ans: Ethics committees are usually multidisciplinary and serve several purposes: education, policy recommendation, and case consultation. Any person involved in an ethical dilemma, including nurses, physicians, health care providers, patients, and family members, can request access to an ethics committee.}Beneficence {Ans: Taking positive actions to help others; fundamental to the practice of nursing and medicine. The agreement to act with beneficence implies that the best interests of the patient remain more important than self-interest.}Common law {Ans: results from judicial decisions concerning individual cases. Most of these revolve around negligence and malpractice}Confidentiality {Ans: guarantees that any information a subject provides will not be reported in any manner that identifies the subject and will not be accessible to people