Another incident I encountered with this particularly nurse occurred when I was finished my evening shift and was leaving the floor. I reported to the primary nurse I had been working with, completed my paperwork and was about to leave the floor. A call bell rang and seeing that all the nurses were in report, I attended to the client who had rung the bell. Knowing I had to get to post-conference and the client's concern was not urgent, I let the responsible nurse know her client’s concerns so I could leave on time. In my attempt to pass on this information with nurse in question, I hesitated for a second to give her the details until she turned to look at me. I quickly realized that this was not going to happened. I know that she heard
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As stated by Canadian Nurses Foundation Code of Ethics (2008), Registered nurses have the professional responsibility to be respectful of the students, promote development of students through respectful and honest feedback through verbal and nonverbal communication, including facial expressions, and tone of voice. Focusing on personal considerations within the IDEA’s (McDonald) first step of the framework, I am able to reflect on my own emotions, feelings, values and biases with the above discussed ethical issues. As a current second year nursing student I feel this ethical issue to be a barrier to my own learning and a barrier to fully engage in collaboration with the healthcare team. This obstacle to collaboration I believe can break down the communication of salient data regarding a client’s health or health care needs, as well as add mental stress to person on the receiving end of negative behaviors and communication. I struggle with this because my values are based on the ideal of unity among nurses and student nurses. In the context of professional relationships Burkhardt et al (2014) describes unity as the shared values and beliefs outlined in the Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics and represent the diversity of individual nurses to enable positive working relationships with one
As stated by Canadian Nurses Foundation Code of Ethics (2008), Registered nurses have the professional responsibility to be respectful of the students, promote development of students through respectful and honest feedback through verbal and nonverbal communication, including facial expressions, and tone of voice. Focusing on personal considerations within the IDEA’s (McDonald) first step of the framework, I am able to reflect on my own emotions, feelings, values and biases with the above discussed ethical issues. As a current second year nursing student I feel this ethical issue to be a barrier to my own learning and a barrier to fully engage in collaboration with the healthcare team. This obstacle to collaboration I believe can break down the communication of salient data regarding a client’s health or health care needs, as well as add mental stress to person on the receiving end of negative behaviors and communication. I struggle with this because my values are based on the ideal of unity among nurses and student nurses. In the context of professional relationships Burkhardt et al (2014) describes unity as the shared values and beliefs outlined in the Canadian Nurses Association Code of Ethics and represent the diversity of individual nurses to enable positive working relationships with one