Ethical Issues in Nursing Care



Ethical Issues in Nursing Care

Introduction

In order to identify good practices of nurses, there is an increased demand of a well-reasoned evaluation and assessment of nurse's acts and doings which they used to conjoin with an appreciation of why and how they do it. It is ethics that enable nurses to critically evaluate their own actions and decisions. Even the activity of nursing is itself an ethical activity as its primary objectives and aims are to perform good and well for other beings and they try to minimize or avoid the harm wherever and to what extent possible, but they achieve those aims and objectives which sometimes become a great challenge for them. Despite of learning to cope up with ethical dilemmas in their re and post nursing education, some nurses yet take ethical challenges as something secluded from their day-to-day activities and roles. Thus, they usually fail to understand the effect of ethics on their practices (Moore and Savage 2002).

Discussion

An ethical dilemma is a condition in which no any solution works as fully satisfactory as it is among one of the most difficult practices to do by anyone. To find out solutions of this challenge, nurses have a need to apply several ethical theories and laws to determine the benefits and burdens of any kind of action.

Nursing Issues and Dilemma

The most regular and most disturbing ethical issue of nursing care has been reported by a nursing survey which included: protection of human dignity and patient's rights, providing care to patients with minimum possible hazard to their health, informed treatments with patient's consents, using chemical or physical restraints, staffing patterns that limits patient's proper care, not providing quality care to patients, and poor working environment for patients.

Dealing with Ethical Conflicts

When there is a need ...