The exciting part of nursing! Professional ethics, It is a line or boundary between a student and a professional. It gives light and guidance to "what is okay" and "what is not," or better yet “what is legal” or “what is not”.
Nursing Code of Ethics is the legal aspect of nursing practice. Before the start first day of work, one should familiarize oneself with the legalities of profession. In order to prevent the hard earned licensed facing a lawsuit against a patient, family member, co-worker or your manager right.
The nursing code of ethics encompasses different ethical principles, which nurses
must always bear in mind. The following are the ethical principles in nursing:
1. Autonomy
- Personal Liberty of Action
- Independence
- Self-reliance
Nursing Implication
- Promote client decision-making.
- Support clients right to informed consent.
- Make decisions when client’s choice poses harm.
- Autonomy is truly exercised when members of the health care team agree to importance of autonomy.
2. Nonmaleficence
-Duty to do no harm
Nursing Implication
- Avoid deliberate harm, risk of harm, and harm that occurs during performance of nursing actions.
- Consider degree of risk morally permissible.
- Determine whether use of technological advances provides benefits that outweigh risks.
3. Beneficence
-Doing or active promotion of good
Nursing Implication
- Provide health benefits to clients.
- Balance benefit and harm.
- Consider how client is best helped.
4. Justice
-Fairness or equity
Nursing Implication
- Ensures fair allocation of resources, such as appropriate staffing or mix-of-staff, to all clients.
- Determines the order in which clients should be treated; for example, clients in pain are treated first.