Extraordinary Care - Ethics in Nursing

One of the first things a student learns new nursing, long before you start sticking needles in people, is a code of ethics nursing. Every profession has an ethic, a morality or philosophy evolving primarily around the profession itself and the acts of people who it involved. In the area of ​​care where people put their lives in the hands of a total stranger, according to a system of ethics is of paramount importance. Nursing Ethics takes the form of several categories:


Competence - A nurse is responsible at all times to see that proper training and experience for every procedure they do. When a nurse is licensed to practice nursing after passing the state examination board of nursing, is the understanding that the nurse is able to perform all duties of care under licensure. However, continuing education and experience are the responsibility of the nurse to ensure proper technique and understanding is present.
Compassion - The next set of ethical concerns the treatment of patients. A nurse should be a compassionate caregiver regarding the safety and dignity of each individual with the utmost diligence. This means that every patient should be treated as a unique individual with the right to privacy and dignity. Each patient or guardian must consent to nursing care and be treated off the best experience of the nurse.
Quality of Care - a nurse is to ensure that they are in a position where they can provide consistent quality care to patients while they are on duty. This means that a nurse who did not get enough sleep, is overworked to the point of exhaustion, is distracted by personal or professional problems, or is using drugs or alcohol that could prevent the judgment is to break the ethic of care quality and could be putting your license in jeopardy. Quality care also means using the standards required for care involving procedures, techniques and hospital policy.
Collaboration - The health system is a multi-connected body where everyone depends on the other to fulfill its obligations properly. Communication and collaboration are essential elements in a code of ethics nursing. Nurses must cooperate honestly with doctors, technicians, specialists, social workers, administrators, patients and family members of patients to create a holistic healing environment in which all elements of patient care is more important and efficient.
Career Skills - A nurse does not just do things for patients or themselves. A nurse must be aware that work and are part of a profession more and more people. Nurses are required to promote the profession by their aspect of representation, and consistent attitude of the profession as a whole. Nurses must continue to be part of this profession to dialogue and documentation that raises the nursing profession and provides a coherent body of wisdom and responsibility for his career as a whole.

The nursing code of ethics passed by the Nurses Association includes all these categories and provides nurses with the guidelines and benchmarks to ensure that they meet their obligation to the general ethics of the health care system .......