Integrity In Nursing

The art and profession of nursing has remained consistent in its values and ethics over the span of several years. Professionals in the past have shaped and molded nursing into an unmatchable occupation. One specific sculptor in reference to the values of the nursing practice was Susie King Taylor. Taylor practiced in a time when it was unpopular to be a female nurse, much less an African American, female nurse. There is absolutely no doubt that there has been common theme in professional values over the years. Caring, altruism, and integrity have been just a few of the values that decades of nurses have held on tightly to. Nursing has been and will continue to be surrounded around the goal of maintaining the quality of life for a patient.
Nurses have almost always been a trustworthy figure within the student nurse’s perspective. The student nurse has believed and will continue to believe that integrity leads to ultimate respect and appreciation. Patients have always looked to nurses for guidance, uprightness, and sound decision making in order to better their patient’s life. Integrity has been described as choosing to do the right and sound things and not expecting any reward for it. Nurses have always and will continue performing to high standards and holding their heads high despite the lack of appreciation and recognition they receive for their life altering work. Nurses have and will continue to be placed in situations where their morals are tested, such as the choice to falsify information on patient charts. The student nurse has always and will continue to consider truthfulness a valuable characteristic that leads to safe and healthy practice of
Care has been described by several different standards from person to person. To the student nurse, caring must be and has been a fundamental value instilled into the hearts of many nurses. Compassion and empathy have always been placed within the same realm as the value of caring. The student nurse has and will continue to believe that a nurse must exceed the amount of care that they would expect for themselves if placed in the same type of situation as their current patient. In order for a nurse to be of great success in his or her practice, the nurse must have been and continue to be focused solely on their patients level of ease and well-being. Caring has and will continue to influence the relationship shared between the patient and nurse. The patient’s level of comfort has had a direct correlation to the amount of care that nurses have