Ethics in Nursing

Ethical issues have always affected the role of the professional nurse. Efforts to enact this standard may cause conflict in health care settings in which the traditional roles of the nurse are delineated within a bureaucratic structure. Nurses have more direct contact with patients than one can even imagine, which plays a huge role in protecting the patients’ rights, and creating ethical issues for the nurses caring for the various patients they are assigned to. In this paper I will discuss some of the ethical and legal issues that nurses are faced with each and every day.

Cost of the end of life medical care is too expensive to continue at the rate it is going. The fiscal year 2016 saw 672.1 billion dollars spent on Medicare participants with just 5% using 49% of those monies ("NHE Fact Sheet," n.d., p. 1). The ANA provides a code of ethics that nurses should use to help guide them in clinical practice decision making. There are four fundamental responsibilities for nurses to adhere too they are: promote health, prevent illness, restore health and alleviate suffering. Ethical Principals for nurses are; respect & autonomy, beneficence, justice, veracity, and fidelity ("Code of Ethics for Nurses," 2012). Attempting to keep ethical responsibilities and principals in mind, while conducting a cost-benefit analysis to determine resource allocation for an aging population and end of life care causes many ethical dilemmas.

In this case, the nurse who was supervising the hospital used her best judgment in maintaining the care for the ICU. All hospitals are licensed to provide appropriate nursing and medical care to a specific number of patients, with the understanding that a hospital will only admit those patients it has the resources, staff, equipment, and facilities needed to deliver said care. This license also directs hospitals and nursing staff to engage in practices which are unmistakably dangerous, irresponsible and unethical, and in many ways, are in direct violation of state and federal laws, HIPAA and JCAHO requirements, and the Department’s own regulations. Closing the unit by Dr. Bestknabe is not a solution; rather, it creates more

An ethical situation that I was part of was when I was working as a CNA. It was a normal busy afternoon; I was assisting with feeding, visiting with residents, bring residents to the restroom; when on resident came up to me and asked if he could have his Tylenol because he had pain. I told the resident that I would let their nurse know. When I notified his nurse of this resident’s request, the nurse responded by complaining about this individual. The nurse claimed this resident always wanted medication and always asked pointless questions that are a waste of the nurse’s time. I was in complete utter shock the way the nurse responded to me notifying her of the resident’s request. I responded by kindly suggesting to the nurse that it’s our

it includes a nurse making an educated judgment about a potential or accurate health problem with a client. These assessments not only include an accurate description of the problem for instance diet also whether will not develop after effects. They are also used to determine a client readiness for health restoration and whether or not they may have developed a syndrome. (Funnel R et al, 2009)

Because of the nature of the job the RN must review documentation and if issues or concerns are found the RN will request that items be corrected. Please keep in mind we function as a team. It should be everyone’s goal on the team to ensure we are providing the best service possible to our clients. If we fail, we fail as a team not individually so if an issue is pointed out it Is not to be accusatory or to put blame it simply means we need to fix a problem so that the team is shown in the best light. Everyone wants to be a part of a successful winning team in order to do that we all must be open to constructive criticism so we can improve in the respective areas. We all have areas where we need to grow. I want this to be a

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Nurses are the largest and viable caregivers for patients and the community. Critical care Nurses must apply their knowledge and evidence based practice as a practice standard. It is very necessary for the critical care nurse to always check and evaluate the current practice to make sure that they are doing what is supposed to be done. The ethical issue I witnessed at my Clinical rotation and would like to discuss is about turning or rotating a critically ill patient. Is it really necessary and of great importance to know the good habits of turning a critically ill patient without causing unnecessary harm. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) early progressive mobility protocol incorporates turning as a first step in the

Ethical principles has always been is an essential element in the professional conduct of behavior for the healthcare practitioners. It shows how one’s commitment is to act in extreme circumstances in regards to moral and how to deal with the choices that we make and action related to it. (Avasthi, A., Ghosh, A., Sarkar, S., & Grover, S. 2013).

On 10/01/16 I had a 62-year-old female client that came in to the hospital from a nursing home with a diagnosis of Syncope and collapse. She is a quadriplegic with contractures and need all her ADL’s done for her. She came into the hospital with a pressure ulcer on her left hip.

Healthcare professionals encounter ethical decisions every day in the deliverance of healthcare for individuals with diverse values living in a culturally disparate and pluralistic society. Bioethics and professionalism are some of the few indispensable pillars of quality medical care. It establishes the foundation of how healthcare providers should treat their patients; building a trusting relationship and putting the patients’ needs first. The four main bioethical principles include respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice1. The principle of respect for autonomy is based on the ability of personal rule and freedom. Automony in the medical field refers to the ability of the patient to act intentionally, with understand, and without external restrictions that would diminish any free and voluntary act2. The notion of nonmaleficence can be summarized by the quote from Thomas Sydenham, “primum non nocere”: ‘above all, do no harm’3. Physicians are obligated to avoid doing any harm to their patients; this principle outweighs even the principle of respect for the patient’s autonomy in an incident where potential harm can occur1. The dogma of beneficence is the physician’s duty to strive to provide benefits to the patient as well as taking action to prevent or remove harm from the patient1, 5. One of the most common ethical quandaries in medicine revolves around the balance of nonmaleficience and beneficence; basically, the potential benefits of any

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Brittany, your posting displayed the significance of incorporating different styles of leadership in dealing with ethical dilemmas in healthcare. Ethical dilemmas play a pivotal role in nurse managers making decisions that are related to “nursing quality, patient satisfaction, finance allocation, ethical climate, and professional dignity” (Zydziunaite & Suominen, 2014). Transformational leadership and the application of other leadership styles identified by Zydziunaite and Suominen (2014) contribute to the enhancement of nurse managers constructing ethical dilemmas in decision making issues. Therefore, it is essential for nurse leaders to obtain skills in the various leadership styles in relation to their “strengths and weaknesses”. Marquis

Thank you for shearing a few of your key values with our group. As you mentioned, at times it is difficulty to recognize and intentionally implement values into patient care amidst hectic patient assignments. However, I believe true values are often incorporated routinely and over time may be done subliminally. Moreover, in order to consistently implement care and practices congruent with one’s ethics routinely and even with little thought at times, they must cognizant of them and reevaluate them frequently.

The Laws and Ethics surrounding the nursing profession are straightforward and easily interpreted but are one of the most important aspects of a nurses’ job. When a nurse walks onto the floor for each shift it is important for the nurse to consider each of the responsibilities that he/she needs to abide by to adequately care for and treat each patient in their care for that shift. The coronary report in regards to Ms Lynette Young (46) shows that some of these considerations have been overlooked while Ms Young was being treated in hospital.