Running head: MY NURSING ETHIC My Nursing Ethic Susan Kreienbrink Grand Canyon University In my nursing career I have worked at two hospitals‚ both run by the Sisters of Mercy. This is a conscious decision on my part because my belief system regarding the way we should care for others‚ mirrors their mission very closely. I believe it is my moral obligation to help anyone who needs help‚ regardless of their own personal belief system‚ whether or not they are a citizen of the
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Nursing Practice Ms. Cadillac-Tessitore is an intermittent employee hired to help develop and train the Hemodialysis Registered Nurse’s to perform peritoneal dialysis. She helped the Nurse Manager and peritoneal Coordinator in the planning‚ coordination and implementation of the program. This is a brand new program‚ developed to bring back the Veterans who are receiving their care out in the community. With the complexity of their care due to increased co-morbidities it is critical for them to
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Nurses must consider the needs and respect the values of every patient. The nine provisions of the Code of Ethics for Nurses establishes guidelines to ensures that every patient is treated with dignity‚ respect and decisions being made on behalf of the patient conform to ethical standards. To promote dignity and respect‚ nurses need to communicate openly‚ honestly‚ and sincerely to gain the trust of their patients and provide care without prejudgment. Factors that may impact decision making of the
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Prior to this assignment‚ I thought that medical ethics meant to practice nursing as a prudent nurse would practice‚ in a socially acceptable way. Ethical behavior is one doing what is right rather than what is wrong. I knew that all medical professionals had to comply with patient confidentiality‚ but I did not realize that all medical professionals‚ including writers‚ were held accountable just as if they were providing bedside patient care. I never considered medical writing before and never wrote
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consider bullying a form of terrorism that caused “damaging effect on the victim’s well-being and facility” (Yildirim‚ 2009‚ p. 504). I am alarmed with the growing incidents of bullying among nurses‚ who are supposed to live up to the care ethics of the nursing profession. In one study‚ bullying was described as a workplace terror – a psychological terror that undermines an individual or group of employees (Yildirim‚ 2009). I also find bullying‚ as a form of terrorism to be much
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Restraints of Society Since the beginning of time‚ women have been treated as second class citizens. Therefore‚ women were forced to face many problems and because of this women were repressed. During the post Civil War era‚ the Napoleonic Code stated that women were controlled by their husbands and couldn’t freely do their own will without the authority of their husband. Each character longs for freedom in a different way‚ but because of the men in their lives they are unable
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RESTRAINT OF TRADE The doctrine of restraint of trade is a legal device to attempt to hold the balance between two competing factors - an employee’s freedom to take employment as and when he wishes‚ and an employer’s interest in preserving certain aspects of his business. Both factors are important‚ and indeed the law will protect the employer if necessary by the implication of the term fidelity in the contract of employment thereby restraining the employee inter alia from divulging confidential
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psychiatric unit. Observation of some staff members quickly resorting to restraints as the first intervention during an escalation of a patient. Inadequate training of staff on how to de-escalate patients. Failure to use least restrictive alternatives as a primary option. Deficit in knowledge/understanding on how to de-escalate a patient. The metrics that would be used to evaluate this clinical problem would be the number of restraints episodes on used on the unit on a daily basis. External evidence is
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Running head: My Nursing Ethic My Nursing Ethic Richard Doria Grand Canyon University NRS-437V Nov 3‚ 2013 My Nursing Ethic Values and ethics play a huge role in the nursing practice. Nursing care involves preventing illness and its complications‚ promotion or health restoration‚ and reducing suffering in the terminally ill. Nurses use their technical skills‚ qualities such as compassion‚ humanitarian service and duty‚ and efficient decision making in meeting the needs of their patients
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Ethics in Nursing Kerrie D. Garraway Keyano College Ethics in Nursing Today people strive to leave an imprint on the world around them. Towards the beginning of adulthood people choose a path that allows them to take part in one of the integral roles of society. For those of us who choose the role of a nurse‚ we are expected to provide the best therapeutic care possible for our clients and instil lifelong health values into their everyday lives. In order
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