Essays on Nursing Code Of Ethics

The code of ethics for nurses, helps maintain the integrity of the nursing profession; the standards of practice, educational requirement for practice, helps in knowledge development and in the continuous evaluation of professional nursing action. Professional nursing bodies are expected to support nursing code of ethics. The nurse’s obligation to preserve the integrity and safety of nursing practice, is ensured by the nursing code of ethics (ANA, 2001, p.18). It also underlines the nurse’s responsibility to continue personal and professional growth. Nurses are expected to disclose errors made by them, as it will safeguard the integrity of ...

How has the nurse’s role expanded over the last 10 years in the health care arena with respect to legal advances? Nursing profession constantly undergoes certain changes that are conditioned by the situation in the world, the newly arising health issues and demand that exists in the society. Within the last ten years there have also been significant changes in all the aspects of profession – legal, ethical and others. In this paper I am going to analyze the change of nurses’ role in the system of health care that took place recently, in particular the aspects of ...

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Euthanasia is the act of providing assisted, voluntary or involuntary death to a patient, mostly terminally ill patients (ANA, 2013). Euthanasia can be administered by the physicians and nurses on request of either the patient, the relatives of a patient who is not in a position to make a request or by the physicians and the nurses depending on the condition of the patient. Euthanasia is an issue that has raised questions not only in the health care system but also in the legal system (ANA, 2013). It is surrounded by moral, social, cultural and religious challenges and finding a common ground to accommodate ...

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Ethics is an established set of standards on the right and wrong that recommend what people ought to do, especially in terms of rights, responsibilities, benefits to the society, objectivity or specific moral values. Ethical values also include those that concern virtues of honesty, humanity, sympathy, and loyalty. Ethical dilemmas are situations where an individual is forced to make a choice between two decisions with different merits whereby neither of the choices can resolve the problem in a satisfactory, ethical, and moral way. The nurse in our study feels she has a moral duty to take care of patients. The nursing ...

Anytime a nursing student is questioned as to why he/she chose nursing as a career path, the most obvious answer they usually give is that they had the intention of learning how to save lives. Today, if someone asked me why I decided to join the nursing class in college, I’m most likely to give the same answer. However, the actual reason as to why I decided to embark on this career path was, because I did not consider myself smart enough to pursue medicine. I never really wanted to be a nurse since I had a misguided mentality on the nursing ...

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Progressive development in the Information Technology has raised diverse professional dilemmas among nurses on the issue of patients’ confidentiality. As stipulated in nursing code of ethics, patient confidentiality is a critical aspect in healthcare professional. The concepts of patient confidentiality are clearly enshrined in nurse contract of employment and in NHS codes of ethics (Gallagher, 2010). However, despite being clarified in the nursing contract of employment, some nurses are confused on the most effective means of implementing the policy on patients’ confidentiality. Recent studies further affirm that the issue of patient privacy and confidentiality has been a major issue of ...

Richard Angelo and the Ethics of Self-Delusion

THE ‘ANGEL OF DEATH’ Abstract

Charge nurse Richard Angelo was responsible for the deaths of at least 10 patients at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, New York, between 1986 and 1989. A former Eagle Scout and volunteer fireman, Angelo sought to create situations in which he would be seen to revive patients he had brought to the brink of death by injecting them with lethal paralytic drugs. As such, Angelo violated his professional ethics on multiple levels and called into question the very nature of the patient-nurse compact. The Angelo case, and others like it, elicited a reassessment ...