My Personal Ethics Statement

Personal Ethics Statement “Ethics is the branch of philosophy concerned with evaluating human action” (Guido, 2010, p.3). My personal core of ethics includes compassion, respect and caring. I believe a nurse must have compassion so that the nurse and patient can establish a rapport relationship. When the nurse shows her kindness and love, patients can feel it and they will work with the nurses. I also remind myself I should respect my patient, their family, my coworkers, and myself. With respect, I can honor my patient’s wish by providing nonjudgmental care and support my patient’s cultural belief and preference. I believe caring plays an essential role in nursing practice. When utilizing Watson’s caring theory in my nursing practice, I focus on the human-to-human relationship. I will listen to my patient’s concerns and acknowledge patient’s problems and emotional and spiritual needs so as to provide individualized patient care and make them feel better.
I agree with the result because I try my best to treat my patients fairly regardless their gender, cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic status. Even my patient is homeless with mental illness, I will still provide professional nursing care. Meanwhile, I will advocate and speak up for my patients if my patients are being treated unfairly. For instance, if I see the nurses laugh at an obese patient at the nurses station, I will kindly remind them it is an inappropriate behavior, and we should aware of our biases and be