Nursing Philosophy: My Nursing Abstract Philosophy is a system of beliefs‚ it is often looked at as an effort to define nursing situations that is observed to exist or happen and serves as the basis for later theoretical formulations. Florence Nightingale the first nurse theorist‚ philosophy states that nursing is establishing and environment that allows persons to recover from illness. Nursing has four metaparadigms the client‚ the environment‚ health and nursing. Metaparadigms
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Informed consent is a legal doctrine in the United States and primarily has focused on disclosure because of a physician’s general obligation to exercise reasonable care in providing information (Beauchamp &ump; Childress‚ 2009). Informed consent plays a critical role in health care. Without adequate way for healthcare providers to deliver information‚ many patients will have no basis for any kind of decision making (Beauchamp &ump; Childress‚ 2009). Informed consent is a legal as well as an ethical
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Ethical Issue Ethics as the word implies is the philosophical analysis of human morality and conduct. And‚ therefore‚ we say that the moral principle of one nation may not be the same of others. Or it may be of a different thing to different individuals in some cases. But is this inference correct? When I was driving in Australia during my tertiary education between the years 1965-1970‚ it would be an ethical courtesy to always let the right side of your traffic pass first when you reach a junction
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Sommers suggested the teachers to teach their students individual virtues as they are further away from their morality. Striking changes have taken place from the more directive teaching of right and wrong‚ by study and example‚ to situation ethics‚ dilemma ethics and other approaches that rationally dissect moral acts. The set of approaches imply that there are no moral absolutes to uphold. Sommers feels that if students are taught that way they can lose a sense of moral direction and not take
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This paper will discuss three attributes of a nurse: competencies‚ commitment and compassion with a rational. Ethics / Human rights and communication concepts across the human life span will also be discussed. The three attributes were chosen on the basis that it takes a special type of person to fulfil these requirements. Zhang et al (2000‚pg 469) quoted that the - ‘ … Key differences between superior and average job performance is not the measurable skills but the soft skills
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that we could accept as universal laws – that is‚ rules we would be willing for everyone to follow in all circumstances. (Ruggeiro. V.R. ‚2011) 2.0 What Is a Virtue? The first systematic description of virtue ethics was written down by Aristotle in his famous work Nichomachean Ethics. Aristotle said that a virtue is a trait of character manifested in habitual action. The word “habitual” here is important. The virtue of honesty‚ for example‚ is not possessed by someone who tells the truth only
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Ethics lo1 1.1background and development of theoretical ethical approaches Deontological Theory The deontological theory state that the consequences or outcomes of actions are not important‚ what actually matter is that the actions are morally justified. For example drunken driving is wrong‚ now if a person argues that he safely navigated his way back home and for that reason he/she should not be held accountable by law‚ they are wrong because their action was wrong in the first place and
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Nursing practice has been transformed from a basic healing and caring concept to a multiple facets of systematic health care collections in an imperative need of rapid changing society over the last century. In order to ensure safe practice of nursing‚ regulation and supervision by legislations serves its purpose. Nurses could obtain nursing regulation information through numerous sources. “National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is an independent‚ not-for-profit organization through
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Richard O. Mason Applying Ethics to Information Technology Issues The articles in this special section express a common theme: the use of information technology in society is creating a rather unique set of ethical issues that requires the making of new moral choices on the part of society and has spawned special implications for its members. Technology itself is not the only‚ nor necessarily the most responsible‚ cause of these issues. All ethical questions arise initially out of human
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Ethics & Reality TV Should We Really Watch? Media both in America and around the world seem to have "discovered" that so-called "reality" shows are very profitable‚ resulting in a growing string of such shows in recent years. Although not all are successful‚ many do achieve significant popularity and cultural prominence. That does not mean‚ however‚ that they are good for society or that they should be aired. The first thing to keep in mind is that "Reality TV" is nothing new - one of the most
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