In my view, nursing entails giving quality care to patients while concurrently adhering with codes of conducts that are affiliated with the profession. The core values of nursing define the driving force that dictates my values and behaviors. These core values include honesty, responsibility, equality of all patients, the pursuit of new knowledge, the desire to prevent and alleviate suffering and the belief in human dignity. Nurses discharge their responsibilities and make their ethical decisions based on the framework of the ANA 2014 code of ethics. The main principles surrounding the ANA code of ethics can be categorized into,
• Confidentiality, this is the protection of clients’ privileged information
• Fidelity, exercising the protection …show more content…
Personally, combining the deontological and virtue theory form the best basis for morality in the nursing practice. The virtue theory puts an individual as a moral agent to ethical behavior thus accommodating experience, practice, wisdom, intuition and human intelligence. It is thus applicable to real world ethical situations. However, virtue theory lacks a rule-based approach hence relying on qualitative as opposed to logical reasoning. It is hence why I have combined it with the Deontological theory. This theory is particular in its assertion that when facing ethical dilemmas duties and obligations should be followed. It usually places its focus on the requirements of the profession like obligations and rules. To inspire ethics, following these obligations and rules is a necessity in deontology as this is depicted as ethical acting. On its own, the Deontological theory cannot be strictly applied in the nursing world, as it does not incorporate human intelligence. I found the utilitarian theory unfavorable to health care as it solely relies on consequences rather than actions. It can thus justify clearly immoral acts as morally appropriate purely based on the outcome. It is hence why I have combined the Virtue and Deontological two theories as the most applicable to
• Confidentiality, this is the protection of clients’ privileged information
• Fidelity, exercising the protection …show more content…
Personally, combining the deontological and virtue theory form the best basis for morality in the nursing practice. The virtue theory puts an individual as a moral agent to ethical behavior thus accommodating experience, practice, wisdom, intuition and human intelligence. It is thus applicable to real world ethical situations. However, virtue theory lacks a rule-based approach hence relying on qualitative as opposed to logical reasoning. It is hence why I have combined it with the Deontological theory. This theory is particular in its assertion that when facing ethical dilemmas duties and obligations should be followed. It usually places its focus on the requirements of the profession like obligations and rules. To inspire ethics, following these obligations and rules is a necessity in deontology as this is depicted as ethical acting. On its own, the Deontological theory cannot be strictly applied in the nursing world, as it does not incorporate human intelligence. I found the utilitarian theory unfavorable to health care as it solely relies on consequences rather than actions. It can thus justify clearly immoral acts as morally appropriate purely based on the outcome. It is hence why I have combined the Virtue and Deontological two theories as the most applicable to