Sunday, November 22, 2015

Prompt 2: Defining Ethics

The Nursing Code of Ethics was developed as a guide for properly carrying out nursing duties in a consistent and ethical manner. A study done on this code yielded ten values; human dignity, privacy, justice, autonomy in decision making, precision and accuracy in caring, commitment, human relationship, sympathy, honest and individual and professional competency. These values found from within the code of ethics reflects my own personal values. I find myself very honest, very sympathetic and I can easily relate to many of the other traits. Which is a great part of the reason I am looking into this field. 

 The study also revealed that many of the common values found in nurses are shared within the global community; not just in nursing. Some people's ideas of the traits may differentiate. Influences of social, cultural, economical status and religious beliefs result in different definitions of the traits. 

 Many people in today's society recognize nurses as the qualities they obtain. Personally I think this is because a nurse knows what a patient needs and wants so they work to live up to the expectations that the patients have. It is obvious that a patient would want their nurse to be honest, caring, sympathetic and precise. People, for the most part, believe that those working in the field follow the code of ethics. This is because in the nursing field you have a patient who is relying on you and a little mistake could come with big consequences, such as endangering the patients health or loss of a job. 

Shahriari, Mohsen, Easa Mohammadi, Abbas Abbaszedah, and Masoud Bahrami. "Nursing ethical values and definitions: A literature review." NCBI. N.p., Feb. 2013. Web. 22 Nov. 2015. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748548/>. 

 Rachel Grzanka
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3 comments:

  1. MSU EngineeringNovember 22, 2015 at 4:21 PM

    I never realized there was a written Code of Ethics for nurses. Reading about it reminded me of the hippocratic oath that physicians do at the start of their careers.

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  2. MSU NurseNovember 22, 2015 at 5:23 PM

    I was able to relate to this a lot, as I also wrote a blog post on the ethics in nursing. It was interesting how you included a global perspective in the ethics too. Thats something you don't think about when you live and work in one country.

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  3. The CabinNovember 23, 2015 at 12:17 PM

    Reading this post was an enjoyment in that it was great to hear that there is a code of ethics for nursing. I have also taken a bioethics class that covered many things like this and it was nice to put that into a real world perspective.

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