Code of Conduct for Nursing

Code of Conduct for Nursing

Introduction

This paper intends to examine the Code of Conduct for nursing in Australia. The primary focus is on comparing and contrasting the three Codes prevailing in Australia namely; the code of Professional Conduct for Nurses in Australia, The Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia and The international Council of Nurses (ICN) Code of Ethics. Further, it examines that how these codes affect nursing practice in Australia and how it may affect personal nursing practice and a general nursing practice.

The fundamental condition for achieving comprehensive development of any society is the being involved in the health of all citizens. Our country is making a claim of greater justice, to have the best quality of services health and public or private. This claim requires professional interact in the health care alternatives for improvement in their namely, in their practice and how to take ethical responsibility for them to be applicable on nursing practice (Meleis, 2011). In this sense the nurse has a solid base and technical grounds of scientific, humanistic and ethical that allows them to play their exercise with quality and professionalism. To ensure the standard of health care several versions of code of conduct on nursing have been developed in Australia, that are revised regularly. To understand the codes it takes knowledge, skills and attributes to practice nursing in that sense educational institutions whose function is to assure the clinical settings can provide the kind of qualities that requires a professional to exercise their formal practice, as a guarantee of governed by public interest institutions. Therefore, title and professional license are a prerequisite for exercising professional nursing practice in Australia. As a result of their formal education, the nurse is identified with the highest moral and social values ??of humanity and committed particularly those who favor a coexistence of dignity and justice and equality. The nurse takes the commitment to observe legal and ethical standards to regulate their behavior, so their actions and decisions seek to provide quality care in accordance with the code of conduct in Australia.

Discussion

The ethical standard can be viewed as the rules of ethics which contains all the necessary responses to the individual, moral choices, everyday practice. In this pattern it includes all voluntary actions subjected to the opinions of right or wrong, good or evil. Based on the experience of one's life and knowledge of professional education, the nurse develops a self within which it is possible to integrate a dynamic philosophy of nursing (Watson, 2008). Essential aspects that may relate to this are logic, ontology, cosmology, psychology, philosophy and ethics or moral philosophy. On the issue of ethics is the question of right, wrong and responsibility. It is the problem of morality in human beings when they make decisions and carry out the tasks which they are entitled. Nursing is a moral art; its ultimate purpose is the welfare of other human beings. This order is not scientific but rather, moral, ...