Ethics In Continuing Education

When evaluating practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, it is necessary that Competency 2: Ethical Practice and Competency 3: Critical Thinking are taken into consideration. Competency 2 requires that social workers are able to recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide practice. Competency 3 requires social workers to demonstrate effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, communities, organizations, and colleagues. By following these competency skills, a social worker is able to evaluate their experience with these different populations without being bias, and can display diversity within the profession of social work.

My three goals for this course are as follows: to better understand the current legal and ethical climate of health care and specifically nursing, to be aware of that climate as I enter clinical, and to understand how I as a nurse can work to make the system more ethical. I chose these three goals, because they provide me with the opportunity to first learn about the current legal and ethical climate of nursing from an academic standpoint while examining how that knowledge translates to what I’m experiencing in clinical. My last goal is reflection-focused, and will allow me to take 5101 course content with me as I move forward as a professional nurse. I plan to accomplish these goals by being present in class preparation, lecture, and seminar,

When I entered this class I did not know anything about ethics or what it meant. I learned so many thing that it would take to long to list them all. I do understand the Ethics Code and the Ethical Standards for Human Service Professionals. That is one think I will have to always have with me and if I need to have a cheat sheet to look back on as I move forward. My biggest challenge was my grammar as I need to continue to work on this through out my life. I learned this was a problem for me through my assignments but am working on it. I hope some day it will come natural for me. This class was my biggest challenge as in terms of a grade. Because of this I learned that I have things to work on to improve myself moving forward.

The history of ethics has been around for a long time. Nurses have an ethical obligation to care for patientsand do no harm. Ethical conflicts and dilemmas occur every day in the health care world. “Ethics is defined as the rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession”(FARLEX, 2011).The nurse should have the adequate skills and experience to provide great care to the patient. Nurses should always accept their moral and responsibilities that come along with their job and

The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics provides many professional traits that can be incorporated to an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals such as compassion and respect, advocacy, accountability for nursing practice and participation in advancement of the nursing career (Cherry, 2011). Compassion is a very important aspect of the nursing profession. It would be very difficult to be a nurse without being compassionate. Nurses demonstrate compassion and respect daily in their work by actively listening to patients’ and family members’ problems and concerns and by empathy when appropriate. Advocacy is a nursing trait constantly used by the entire interdisciplinary team. Nurses advocate for patients’ right of autonomy for decision making in regards to their care, treatments and procedures. Also, nurses are in the best position to serve as a bridge between the patient and the interdisciplinary team. Accountability is so essential in the nursing profession. Nurses are accountable for their own nursing practices and for our patients.

Susan Imel's article "Ethical practice in adult education" provides an overview of a number of salient areas of concern regarding ethics in adult education (1992). Because it is focused predominantly on administration, the article can be considered a companion piece to Chapter 8 of Adminstering Successful Programs for Adults: Promoting Excellence in Adult, Community, and Continuing Education (Gailbraith et al 1997). The author considers the inherent challenges facing adult education instructors and details specific ways in which the ethical challenges of adult education are different from (and in many ways more pronounced) than those facing child or high school educators. Finally, the article provides a basic framework for how adult education instructors should implement ethical practice into their instruction.

Nurses are faced with ethical issues and dilemmas on a regular basis. Nurses must understand his or her values and morals to be able to deal adequately with the ethical issues he or she is faced with. Some ethical issues nurses are exposed to may be more difficult than others and the ethical decision making process is learned over time.

Nursing 501 was a great way to start my graduate school education. Learning about ethics and health policy really allowed me to reflect on different aspects of healthcare that make up this complex system. To start off I was introduced to the different roles in advanced practice nursing and their influence on healthcare policies. This provided me with an idea of how I will make an influence on the healthcare system as a Clinical Nurse Leader and the similarities and differences between my future role as a CNL and other APNs.

The following memo was developed through deep reflection on the necessary decisions which lead to determine what possible areas of knowledge would be of importance to be analyzed, and the diverse methods and instruments that supported the understanding of the phenomena observed in the areas to be further discussed. In this vein, as a group, we decided to select articles that discuss the Ethics of Care Theory as a paradigm for nursing education. The reasons of our choice were, first due to a general knowledge about Ethics of Care Theory and its relationship with education; and second, the field of nursing provided a neutral arena for our discussions. None of us is related to nursing or any health-related educational

I might not always have the luxury of being able to sit down and think about what I must do in every situation, especially in the field I am pursuing. To strengthen this skill, I plan to apply for the Nursing Volunteer program with UCLA health. Through this volunteer opportunity, I will able to expose myself to different situations that a nurse encounters. By seeing how a nurse would respond, I will learn how to make ethical decisions right away that can help me in my future career. I also plan to read different kinds of books about making ethical decisions. By reading books such as the Medical Ethics for Dummies by Jane Runzheimer, or the book called Ethics and Issues by Margaret Burkhardt and Alvita Nathaniel, I will become knowledgeable about how to deal with different situations I might encounter in the future. Learning how to deal with different situations before I experience them, will save me the time that I usually use to visualize the risks and benefits of my

Ethical reasoning is a huge part of patient care. In an article written for American Nurse Today, authors Vicki D. Lachman, John S. Murray, Karen Iseminger, and Kathryn M. Ganske addressed the importance of patient advocacy that nurses hold (2012). This article discussed moral courage and how nurses can implement it. Moral courage can have barriers to nurses when it comes to ethical dilemmas. While empirical knowledge provides a basis of scientific knowledge, ethical reasoning is a large part of nursing as well.

Ethics and Morals play an important role in the nursing profession; nurses are confronted with choices to make every day, and some of them more challenging than others. Ethics are affirmations between what it can be right or erroneous. For our society ethics is presented as a complex system of principles and beliefs. This system serves as an approach with the purpose of ensuring the protection of each individual within the society. On the other hand, morals are basic standards between what is right or wrong; each individual learns to identify these standards during the early stages of human development (Catalano, 2009). A person with morals is usually somebody who recognizes how to respond to the needs of another individual by giving care and keeping a level of responsibility while giving this care (Catalano, 2009).

Both justice and care have a place in the process of ethical decision making, and both will be discussed in this paper ultimately with ethics of care guiding the practice of a DNP prepared nurse. The paper will discuss how ethics of justice and ethics of care affect the quality of education that a nursing student receives from a new nursing school that has an unacceptable pass rate for first time National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) test takers. Standards such as having competent nursing faculty are set by accrediting agencies for teaching institutions, and this paper will discuss the importance of nursing schools to educate future nurses to practice safely.

Patient care requires the use of ethics and values. Nurses are required to accept a patient’s wishes on choosing their own care. Medication administration also requires the use of ethics and values. Nurses are required to accept a patient’s wishes on refusing a medication and they are also required to administer a medication using the correct route required. Teaching also requires ethics and values. A nurse is required to teach a patient the correct information related to their care, while also respecting the patient. Incorporating ethics is imperative in nursing practice. Ethical theories and principles that influence nursing practice are discussed in the next paragraph.

As a first year nursing student at Notre Dame University Fremantle, I understood that enrolling into a Bachelor Degree in Nursing at a Catholic University, it was a requirement to complete the three compulsory core units of Philosophy, Ethics and Theology. Personally and honestly, I had never really considered these disciplines much, if at all. Furthermore, in regards to Ethics I thought, as a mature age student, I had a general and basic understanding that to be an ethical person one had to identify when something was right, wrong, good or bad. However, upon reflection to the Ethics 100N unit I soon came to realised I truly had no idea of the different theories and theorists within Ethics or the depth of Ethics.