Question

Analyze how demographic, cultural, economic, environmental, and ethical factors influence professional practice.

Answer 1

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The demographic variables which may affect a student's or graduate's views about nursing as a profession are: age, gender, marital status, education completed after high school, role models, faculty basic preparation, and faculty teaching experience. Each of these variables will be discussed individually.

CULTURAL FACTORS. Culture encompasses the set of beliefs, moral values, traditions, language, and laws (or rules of behavior) held in common by a nation, a community, or other defined group of people.

As salaried healthcare workers, nurses are especially susceptible to institutional budget cuts. In the short run, economic downturns may temporarily reduce the demand for and increase the supply of nurses, thereby influencing nursing wages and turnover rates.

“Clearly, the physical work environment can affect nurses' ability to do their jobs effectively and efficiently,” said Djukic. “The right environment facilitates nurses' work, which increases their job satisfaction, which in turn reduces turnover. All of those improve patient outcomes.

The four principles of healthcare ethics namely (Autonomy, Beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice) presented by (Beauchamp and Childress, 2001) [1] provide us a direction to estimate the significance of the ethical decision in clinical setting.

A code of ethics is important because it clearly lays out the rules for behavior and provides the groundwork for a preemptive warning. Regardless of size, businesses count on their management staff to set a standard of ethical conduct for other employees to follow.