Values: The Role Of Beliefs In Nursing

As a registered nurse practicing in the state of California I am responsible for practicing within my states legal regulations and nursing scope of practice. My concern for the welfare of the sick and injured allows me to practice ethical provisions of nursing. These are required if I am to carry out competent and effective nursing care. Nursing encompasses the prevention of illness, the alleviation of suffering, and the protection, promotion, and restoration of health in the care of individuals. Therefore, as health care professionals we must be familiar with the different philosophical forces, ethical principles, theories and values that influence nursing. At the same time, we must be respectful to our patient’s

There are many different roles and values within the profession of nursing. Each of these roles and values has a different job description and purpose, yet they all contain one common link. The link that connects the different roles in the nursing profession is the fact that they each rely on nursing research, theories, and evidence based practice to provide safe, quality care to patients. Without nursing research, theories, and evidence based practice, nursing care would be based on trial and error methods that often cause more harm than good to the patient.

Identifying personal values, beliefs and concepts ignite the individual to make a well-rounded decision and live an authentic life. As a nurse, I want to promote the best possible care for my patients because I believe in maintaining life balances. Life balances acknowledge the individual’s prioritizes by linking each lifestyles together. In physiological terms, maintaining equilibrium and homeostasis is critical in achieving a state of balanced. Therefore, my values about person, health, nursing, and environment underlies the concept of sustaining life harmony. Educating the patient and the self about healthy work/ life balance through the conceptual framework of the four nursing metaparadigms will help me promote optimal nursing care.

The State of Tennessee Board of Nursing’s Rules and Regulations of Registered Nurses, Rule # 1000-01-.13-1r states that unprofessional conduct is defined in part by "failing to take appropriate action in safeguarding the patient from incompetent health care practices" (State of Tennessee, 2011). There are a number of arguments in this case study that incompetent health care practices are being performed, from the decision to place a patient on a ventilator for an oxygen saturation of 88%, circumventing the patient’s written and verbal advanced directives, utilizing an unauthorized family member to get consent for

Nursing encompasses various roles, inclusive of providing beneficial care, supporting patient autonomy and patient advocacy. Patients are capable of designating the direction of their medical care, possessing rights to refuse and accept proposed procedures according to the Patient Self Determination Act of 1990 which mandates patients be given information regarding their rights and abilities to prepare Advance Directives.

This essay will consider ethics in nursing, discuss values and morals and how dignity and respect in patient care is influenced; considering the importance of reflection and the implications it has on effective practice from the perspective of a student nurse. The scenario “Call Me Joe” provided by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2010a) highlights concerning issues and bad practice that are happening in modern day nursing practice, and using the Driscoll and Teh (2001) reflective model: What, Now What and So What, to consider the care that Joe is receiving; considering how the nursing practice affects him directly and the implications of the nature of knowledge in nursing practice. Part of the way in which nursing practice is

Ethics, the rules and principles that guide right behaviors or conduct, are foundational to the field of bioethics, which focuses on ethical issues in healthcare (Mclennon, Uhrich, Lasiter, Chamnes, & Helft, 2013). Nurses are faced with ethical decision making principles daily when caring for their patients, some days more than others. According to Yoder-Wise (2011), ethics may be distinguished from the law because ethics is internal to an individual, looks to the ultimate “good” of an individual rather than society as a whole, and concerns the “why” of one’s actions (p. 91). In this particular situation, the nurse has to decide if she will respect the wishes of the patient’s family members or be upfront and honest with her patient and

This essay will discuss the role of the adult nurse in a recovery setting, within the specific context of Nurse Joy and her patient Linda. It will explore the professional values and attitudes of the recovery nurse. Also, it will demonstrate how effective, holistic and evidence-based nursing can impact on patient experience and care. To explore these topics, this essay will discuss the episode of care given by Nurse Joy to Linda. It will show that her practice adhered to the expected standards of nursing while showing compassion respect and dignity of the patient. A reflection will conclude the essay, explaining what impact the experience of observing Nurse Joy’s practice had on the author of this essay. In accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery council’s code of conduct 2015, all patients and healthcare professionals have pseudonyms to protect their confidentiality and anonymity.

Nurses are advocates for the community, they help and support the people live healthy lives. Nurses peruse their actions by using their knowledge and skills gained from previous years to current times. Overall, nurses experience difference ethical beliefs, their own perception of care, a variety of goals and strategies, and personal declaration.

As a nurse, it is expected that we uphold certain values at all times, which are fundamental within practice. These values are important as they create a minimum standard of practice that all nurses are to be working in accordance with. These values also provide a framework for assessment of behavior, whilst providing influential guidance for a nurses, goals and objectives within their role (Orford, 2012).

While evaluating personal beliefs and values, one must understand how this is incorporated into ethics of nursing. According to Mendes (2015), “Ethical dilemmas are not uncommon in health care. Awareness of personal beliefs, how they affect work situations and how they may potentially affect the way a nurse views a patient, or the patient’s condition and care, is

Nursing philosophy is a “set of values and beliefs that guides the actions of the organization and thus serves as the basis of all planning’ (Cherry & Jacob, 2014, p. 294). As professional nurses, it is up to each individual to determine their own values and beliefs of how they would like to or do provide care and compare this against the organization of which one chooses to work (Cherry & Jacob, 2014). Once an organization is found that coincides with a nurse’s own values, it makes it easier to work within the organization as a team. The nurse knows what is expected of them and the type of care that should be provided to the patient. This is why it is asked of Magnet hospitals to make their philosophy known to the employees. Not only does

The theme values emerged from the participants’ response to the open-ended question “What are your strengths that help you cope as a nurse?” According Rasssin (2008) values are active standards that define social and professional behaviour and also effect moral judgement. Under this theme two sub-themes emerged namely spiritual/religious values and moral values. The participants indicated that under spiritual values the strengths that help them cope are the following: believe in God and Prayer. Under moral values the following were indicated, believe in self and fundamentals of nursing.

According to Duffy-Randall (2006), the Sanskrit word mandala, meaning magic circle, circumference, and center, was first adopted by Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung, to describe the drawings that he and his patients drew. Each of the drawings within a mandala represent a connection to the artist, making every mandala unique. Appendix #37, also known as mandala “Me, Myself & I”, consist of the colours blue, red, yellow, black, and white. Appendix #37 includes the images of a family of four, the Canadian flag, and a stairwell on the clouds. This paper will identify three main values and beliefs, and their points of origin, followed by clear and logical connections between self’s values and beliefs and how they impact and influence self as a nurse, the connection of each value/belief to appendix #37, and finally, the comprehensive summary of the paper. A mandala is a form of art where one can learn and grow, while increasing one’s intellectual (Duffy-Randall, 2006). The purpose of the self-mandala reflective paper is to use the drawings and images from the appendix #37 as visual representations of one’s values and beliefs, in order to consider the implications for self as a nurse.

48). This theory can be applied to this case study because we are dealing with the values and practices of an individual apart from ourselves. The author in the statement is trying to convey is that every individual has their own values, customs and rituals of living life and that does not change because of their illness. We as nurses have to mold ourselves into their lifestyle and provide and assist with the best available resources to improve and manage their health and well