Personal and Professional Values

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Personal and Professional Values

Introduction

Moral ethical values ??are an element of protection of individual rights. In nursing these rules protect both users and the nurse. Ethics governs the conduct involves what is good and what is bad, what is a moral responsibility and obligation. Hence, to achieve a successful performance, the nurse engages a moral ethical profile. Must be knowledgeable of the foundations of ethics and apply them in their daily activities, in order to achieve compliance with its leadership as a professional and be in accordance with their colleagues, since they depend on their professionalism. The practice of ethical and moral values ??means a lot to a nurse, as well as, any other professionals in health institutions.

Thus, ethics and moral influence in a profession are created to control, manage, plan, diagnose, and organizing the principles of authority and responsibility to understand the autonomy of the patient under their care. One of the important ethical aspects of nursing is communication and respect as elements that allow the practice of the profession. It also emphasizes the role of the nurse in the use and performance within the scope of their profession, by taking into account the values ??and ethics and bioethics to provide better customer service.

Case Study

A 75-year old woman suffering from dementia is admitted to nursing care. On the very day of the patient's admission, the patient refuses to eat or drink anything. Moreover, the patient refuses to sit or relax and keeps running and walking throughout the ward. As a result, the patient suffers from severe dehydration and confusion. Hence, the nurse is required to take a decision, and cater to the patient's need as soon as possible. When the nurse tried to make the patient sit and eat something, the patient gets angry and starts cursing the nurse. For the nurse, it became a challenge to feed the patient, as aforementioned and the main focus of treatments which addresses dementia is on the provision of efficacious corroborative care and high quality life, instead of precluding onset. Hence, despite the patient's dislike and agitation, the nurse compelled the patient to have some liquid which prevented the patient from getting further dehydrated. (Alfred, 2009)

In this case, the nurse exercised two values to deal with the patient. First, the nurse exercises her professional value of care, which forced her to feed the patient to ensure the patient's safety and prevention from dehydration. Second, the nurse exercised her value of providing quality of life to the patient; hence, she made sure that the patient tastes the food and drink so that the patient could enjoy the eating and drinking experience.

Discussion

It is often found that nurses have poor understand of some of the aspects of dementia which are easily preventable which align with the disease's major consequences on a person's ability to take care of themselves. There are many target areas wherein nursing ethical dilemmas come into play, and the nurse has to take prompt decisions ...