As part of an assignment for the nursing ethics paper, I interviewed Chic Arboiz, who’s a registered nurse working at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, CA. Arboiz is a naturalized citizen, and graduated with a BSN degree from Misamis University (MU), located in Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, Philippines. According to Barbara Brush (2008), approximately 50 percent of all foreign nurses received their basic education in the Philippines. Since foreign educated workers bring differing ethical approaches to each occupational workforce, and due to the large number of overseas nurses from the Philippines, I thought it would be most appropriate to interview Arboiz.
On September 17, I started the interview by asking Arboiz’s point of view about …show more content…
This guided Arboiz’s ethical duty as a nurse to provide care; both patient centered beneficence and non-maleficence directed care. Arboiz’s emotional upset toward her patient may have led to patient harm if she had ignored the patient’s request for crackers. Negative or hostile emotion towards a patient is in direct opposition to the ethical principle of non-maleficence. However, Arboiz’s overriding fear of harming the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship may have contributed substantially towards her actions in circumventing a potential tragedy. Furthermore, the ethical principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, and autonomy correspond with international, national, and local nursing codes of ethics and standards (Chiovitti, 2011). Therefore, Arboiz’s actions are reflective of any nurse regardless of cultural background, ethnicity, or country of …show more content…
They are building blocks stacked upon each other, and removal of one cause instability in the other. Arboiz’s example of an ethical dilemma provides the bases of two functional lessons that can be applied in everyday care for both myself and other future nurses. The first lesson has to do with nurses themselves. Nursing must uphold the values and nursing standard demonstrative in all nursing codes of conduct. The second lesson relates to the nurse-patient relationship in that every nurse cannot harbor feelings of anger or hostility towards any patient, regardless of situation. Additionally, nurse-client communication is key to dissolving hostile feelings directed towards
On September 17, I started the interview by asking Arboiz’s point of view about …show more content…
This guided Arboiz’s ethical duty as a nurse to provide care; both patient centered beneficence and non-maleficence directed care. Arboiz’s emotional upset toward her patient may have led to patient harm if she had ignored the patient’s request for crackers. Negative or hostile emotion towards a patient is in direct opposition to the ethical principle of non-maleficence. However, Arboiz’s overriding fear of harming the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship may have contributed substantially towards her actions in circumventing a potential tragedy. Furthermore, the ethical principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, and autonomy correspond with international, national, and local nursing codes of ethics and standards (Chiovitti, 2011). Therefore, Arboiz’s actions are reflective of any nurse regardless of cultural background, ethnicity, or country of …show more content…
They are building blocks stacked upon each other, and removal of one cause instability in the other. Arboiz’s example of an ethical dilemma provides the bases of two functional lessons that can be applied in everyday care for both myself and other future nurses. The first lesson has to do with nurses themselves. Nursing must uphold the values and nursing standard demonstrative in all nursing codes of conduct. The second lesson relates to the nurse-patient relationship in that every nurse cannot harbor feelings of anger or hostility towards any patient, regardless of situation. Additionally, nurse-client communication is key to dissolving hostile feelings directed towards