Nursing Ethical Dilemmas
COMMON ETHICAL ISSUES IN NURSING AND ITS IMPLICATION
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONCEPT
Nursing ethics refers to the moral code for nursing and is based on obligation to service and respect for human life – Melanie and Evelyn. Nursing ethics governs and guide nurses in every day practice such as being truthful with clients, respecting client’s confidentiality and advocating on behalf of the client. Nursing ethics the nurses in making right decision during difficult situations, it teaches the professionals to treat patient with all fairness and provide comfort in the most distressful cases. It ensures that everyone has the same level of attention and possible care is rendered. Nursing ethics ensures that the professional must always agree and …show more content…
Florence Nightingale in her note on nursing discussed ethical duties and responsibilities of a nurse which includes confidentiality communication, and the centrality of meeting the patient’s need (Nightingale 1859; Urich & Zeil Zer, 2009).
Professional nurses are bound to uphold the fundamental moral values, principles and duties which are central to the nursing profession.
Critical care nurses are often face with the question and the dilemma to question between the value preserving a patient’s life and aggressive physiological measures that tends to prolong the suffering and produce no fruitful result. All professionals are faced with ethical dilemmas and nurses at the forefront a patient’s care is most affected at all times, having to deal with stressful and exhausting situations. The decision making on the part of the nursing in pain management tends to be difficult when a patient, though not any obvious pain request for pain medications. Since pain is subjective, the nurses has the responsibility to care and provide solution for the
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONCEPT
Nursing ethics refers to the moral code for nursing and is based on obligation to service and respect for human life – Melanie and Evelyn. Nursing ethics governs and guide nurses in every day practice such as being truthful with clients, respecting client’s confidentiality and advocating on behalf of the client. Nursing ethics the nurses in making right decision during difficult situations, it teaches the professionals to treat patient with all fairness and provide comfort in the most distressful cases. It ensures that everyone has the same level of attention and possible care is rendered. Nursing ethics ensures that the professional must always agree and …show more content…
Florence Nightingale in her note on nursing discussed ethical duties and responsibilities of a nurse which includes confidentiality communication, and the centrality of meeting the patient’s need (Nightingale 1859; Urich & Zeil Zer, 2009).
Professional nurses are bound to uphold the fundamental moral values, principles and duties which are central to the nursing profession.
Critical care nurses are often face with the question and the dilemma to question between the value preserving a patient’s life and aggressive physiological measures that tends to prolong the suffering and produce no fruitful result. All professionals are faced with ethical dilemmas and nurses at the forefront a patient’s care is most affected at all times, having to deal with stressful and exhausting situations. The decision making on the part of the nursing in pain management tends to be difficult when a patient, though not any obvious pain request for pain medications. Since pain is subjective, the nurses has the responsibility to care and provide solution for the