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ETHICAL AND PROFESSIONALISM
Employers seek employees who exhibit ethical,professional behavior with;
The colleagues/coworkers
Customers/clients/patients
Their manager or supervisor
The community
DEFINITION
Ethics: Concepts of right and wrong, moral principles guiding behavior. Professionalism: Conduct or qualities marking a professional person
THE CORE PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH
CARE ETHICS
Autonomy: to honor the patients right to make their own
decision
Beneficence: to help the patient advance his/her own
good
Justice: to be fair and treat like cases alike
No maleficence: to do no harm
CODES OF NURSING ETHICS
Code of ethics is a means by which a discipline articulates the values that regulate the conduct of members.
Like other professions, nursing has developed and enforces specific obligations to ensure that nurses are competent and trustworthy.
These obligations correlate with the rights of individual patients and society as a whole.
Nurses make an implicit moral commitment to
uphold the values and moral obligations expressed in their code.
Such as respect for persons, autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, veracity, confidentiality, fidelity, and justice.
THE CODES OF NURSING FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO
)
Each code of nursing ethics strongly establishes the following:
Respect the inherent worth, dignity, and rights
of every person.
Responsibility is to the person seeking care.
Each code of nursing ethics strongly establishes the following:
Duty to do good and avoid harm
Responsible for the ethics of his or her own practice
and must carry out daily actions with integrity.
Deliver care that is safe, compassionate,
competent, and ethical.
Must protect an individual when health is
endangered by another person.
Responsible and accountable for
individual nursing practice
Promotes justice,the nurse maintains cooperative relationships with others. The nurse participates in advancement of the profession. The nurse is concerned with broader societal issues that affect health.
The themes of caring, expertise, nursing autonomy accountability, authority, and unity that appear in nursing codes of ethics.
Caring
Expertise
Autonomy
ACCOUNTABILITY
Means that a person has a duty to take responsibility of and give an explanation for their actions. Nursing accountability is based on the moral precepts of loyalty and respect for the worth, dignity, and autonomy of patients. Various nursing accountability procedures ensure safe, independent practice.
Mechanisms of Accountability
Standards of nursing practice
Nurse practice acts
Nursing Theory and Practice Derived from Research
Authority
Unity
SEVEN CRITERIA OF A PROFESSION
:
Practice a well-defined and well-organized body of specialized knowledge that is on the intellectual level of the higher learning
2.Enlarges the body of knowledge it uses and improves its techniques of education and service by the use of the scientific method.
3.The education of its practitioners to institutions of higher
education.
Knowledge in practical services that are vital to
human and social welfare
5.Functions autonomously in the formulation of professional policy and in
the control of professional activity, thereby
6.Individuals of intellectual and personal qualities who exalt
service above personal gain and who recognize their chosen occupation as a life work
A profession strives to compensate its practitioners by providing freedom of action,opportunity for continuous professional growth, and economic security. (Bixler & Bixler,1959, pp. 1142–1147).
PROFESSIONAL CODES OF CONDUCTPROVIDE
BENEFITS TO:
Clients
Members of the profession
The public
The profession as a whole
LO1 - IDENTIFY GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
LO2 - DISCUSS PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCTS IN HEALTHCARE.
LO3 - SUMMARIZE THE ACTS CAN
JEOPARDIZE LICENSURE.