Question

how to deal with ethical issues in nursing?

Answer 1

Ans) Ethics are fundamental to nursing.

- All nurses should respect their patients, maintain patients' dignity and protect patients' rights.

- Patients entrust their dignity to nurses, so nurses must guard their privacy, listen to their concerns and consider their wishes concerning the care they want to receive.

- The ethical principles that nurses must adhere to are the principles of justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence, accountability, fidelity, autonomy, and veracity. Justice is fairness.

- Nurses must be fair when they distribute care, for example, among the patients in the group of patients that they are taking care of.

Steps process for addressing ethical issues in the nursing:

1. Identify the problem.
2. Get the story straight - gather relevant data. (Federal, state, and local regultations, professional practice documents, ASHA Code of Ethics)
3. Ask yourself if the problem is a regulatory issue or a process issue related to regulatory requirements.
4. Compare the issue to a specific rule in ASHA's Code of Ethics. Determine if rules the Code of Ethics apply to your problem and can help develop a course of action for you to pursue.
5. Identify who has the power and control in the situation.
6. Identify what is in your control and what is not.
7. Identify your resources. These can be a supervisor, special education director, or colleague. Ask yourself if you need more information, clarification, or ideas from others who have had a similar problem.
8. Make a list of possible actions and their positive and negative consequences.
9. Make a plan that you can defend professionally and ethically and that meets the requirements of the regulations.
10. Take action and evaluate your plan as you proceed. Determine next steps.