Question

Who or what are 3 sources that have influenced on a person moral beliefs. Describe the impact of those beliefs on nursing practices.

Answer 1

Ans) The value of life: Individuals should revere life and accept death.
Goodness or rightness: Individuals should promote goodness over badness, cause no harm or badness, and prevent badness or harm.
Justice or fairness: This refers to equality of distribution.
Honesty or truth-telling: This includes providing meaningful communication.
Individual freedom or autonomy: This includes the freedom of individuals to choose their own ways and means of being moral, within the framework of the above four principles.

- Nurses have a responsibility to themselves, their profession, and their patients to maintain the highest ethical principals. Many organizations have ethics boards in place to review ethical concerns.

- Nurses at all levels of practice should be involved in ethics review in their targeted specialty area. It is important to advocate for patient care, patient rights, and ethical consideration of practice.

- Ethics inclusion should begin in nursing school and continue as long as the nurse is practicing.