Professional Values and Ethics Professional values and ethics go hand in hand. They are the corner stone of our career foundation as well as personal endeavors. Values and ethics help guide a person’s professional decisions in many ways. Which jobs to pursue‚ what form of career they want to have‚ and even what type of professional relationships they foster can all be guided by ones values and ethics. But what are values and ethics? Where do they come from? And how do they affect professional relationships
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Ethics is an essential part of what nursing is. Nursing has an eminent chronicle of trepidation for the wellbeing of those who are ill‚ hurt‚ and the helpless and for universal fairness. This concern is personified in the specifications of nursing care to those in society. The American Nurses Association has developed the nursing code of ethics that covers the obligations of nursing to protect those who are in their care. This code holds nurses responsible and accountable for their individual nursing
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Nursing Code of Ethics Introduction Butts and Rich (1-26) point out that effective nursing requires both broad knowledge and a set of well developed abilities and skills. The required tasks‚ are many and varied and in order to do them properly‚ care must be taken to respect each patient’s rights and sensitivities. This is why‚ according to the authors‚ nursing care must be guided by a code of ethics. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and discussion of the "Code of Ethics
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Ethics is the discipline that waits in the wings as a health-restoring resource when moral guidelines fail to do the job alone. Ethics provides a language‚ along with methods‚ and tools for evaluating the components of personal‚ societal‚ and group morality to create a better path for yourself and others. Some of its most important uses are to clarify‚ organize‚ and critique morality to highlight what does and does not fit in a particular situation (Purtilo‚ 2011). A nurse cultivates personal ethics
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CODE OF ETHICS IN NURSING * The fundamental responsibility of the nurse is fourfold: to promote health‚ to prevent illness‚ to restore health and to alleviate suffering. * The need for nursing is universal. Inherent in nursing is respect for life‚ dignity and the rights of man. It is unrestricted by consideration of nationality‚ race‚ creed‚ color‚ age sex‚ politics‚ or social status. * Nurses render health services to the individual‚ the family and the community and coordinate their
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Ethics and its impact on nursing “Ethics is not definable‚ is not implementable‚ because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking‚ but also our feeling‚” Valdemar W. Setzer. According to Fundamentals of Nursing‚ The Art and Science of Nursing Care‚ (4th edition)” ethics is a systematic inquiry into principles of right and wrong conduct‚ of virtue and vice‚ and of good and evil
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Moral Compass The code of ethics is an important part of the nursing foundation where nurses are directed to practice with compassion and respect for human dignity‚ responsibility‚ accountability‚ confidentiality and patient safety (ANA‚ 2012). Nurses are expected to follow this professional morals and values but also to practice their own personal standards as well. Values are one’s fundamental beliefs acquired from childhood through family and society. Morals are values that attribute to a system
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moral norms which nurses are expected to adhere to and embrace. In a nursing profession‚ daily decisions have real impact on other people’s lives. The responsibility of such decisions creates the need for nurses to have knowledge and skills that enable them to not only provide physical and psychological care‚ but also to critique and reflect on the standard of health care practices. For the nurses to do this‚ they must understand ethics and ways in which to utilize this knowledge in a constructive and
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My personal definition of values is the set of principles one uses as a guide to direct their lives. I feel my personal values which I utilize in my nursing practice are very close if not identical with those of the National League of Nursing (NLN). The NLN’s core values are caring‚ integrity‚ diversity‚ and excellence (NLN‚ 2017). In addition to the previous four values‚ stewardship is another principle that is very important to my day-to-day existence as a person and nurse. Moreover‚ my spiritual
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Essential Values of the Professional Nurse Nurses are some of the most caring people known to mankind. Nursing is a group of intelligent‚ caring‚ honest people. Those who commit to nursing are independent and care immensely about the people they choose to care for. A fault in society is the result of hardship‚ often when bad things happen to a person they struggle to find someone who cares about them enough to stick through the rough patch. However‚ in nursing there is an abundance of those who commit
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