Question

The patient reports to the nurse of being afraid to speak up regarding a desire to end care for fear of upsetting spouse and children. Which principle in the nursing code of ethics ensures that the nurse will promote the patient’s cause?

Define each ethical principle below and select the most appropriate answer for the question. How does this principle enable the nurse the ability to help the patient with his/her dilemma?

A. Advocacy
B. Responsibility,
C. Confidentiality
D. Accountability

Please write at least 5 sentences when conducting your initial post. You must comment on at least 2 of your classmates initial posts with at least 5 sentences each. You must in turn respond to at least 2 of classmates posts on your own initial post with at least 3 sentences.

Answer 1

Ethical principals:-they are nothing but a list of standards or rules that an ethical person must follow to maintain and improve the dignity and quality of a profession.

Advocacy:- this is the responsibility of a nurse to advise a better treatment or procedure to the patient by providing him a good guidelines regarding the services that are provided to him by govt. And the hospital.

Responsibility:- patient is the biggest responsibility of a nurse in the hospital and provideing him best possible care in the available resources to improve his health is her job.

Confidentiality:-maintaing confidentiality regarding patient,his treatment, his illness and the procedure is the responsibility of not only a nurse but all the team members that are involved in the care of the patient. Without his permission one can't share anything related to the patient even to his spouse or his parents if he is adult

According to the statement we will choose this ethical principal because the patient is scared that what will happen if his spouse or his children will come to know about his illness so the nurse should build confidence in the patient regarding the secracy of the treatment

Accountability:- one is responsible for what he did.