CODE OF CONDUCT

Professional Code of Conduct



Alternative Medicine - Nursing

Introduction

The fundamental condition for achieving comprehensive development in any society is leading to welfare which related to healthcare for all citizens. Countries making a greater claim of justice, for the providing best healthcare quality services whether public or private. This claim requires professionals who interact in the health care alternatives for improvement in their knowledge, in their practice and how to take ethical responsibility they deserve.

Discussion

Constant attention by a skilful nurse may be just as important as a serious operation by a surgeon”. These are the words of Dag Hammarskjold (State Senate of the USA) truly expressing the importance of the role of a nurse. Nurses play their integral role in facilitating a patient effectively and efficiently. The codes of conduct devised by the midwifery council considered being a milestone in terms of its implication and nursing and health care services. However, ethics is important not only in health care, but in all aspects of life because it is an essential part of the foundation on which a civilized society built. A health care agency, business, or society that lacks ethical principles bound to fail sooner or later.

The primary purpose of code of ethics is that it makes explicit, values and obligations of the profession. Its function is to touch and awaken the consciousness of the practitioner to exercise professional constitutes a field of legitimacy and authenticity for the benefit of society, combat dishonesty in professional practice, without prejudice to the legal standards embodied in the laws regulate the exercise of all professions In nursing it is important to have a code of ethics to highlight the values inherited from the tradition humanist, a code inspire respect for life, health, death, dignity, ideas, values and beliefs of the person and their environment. Codes are those that highlight the attributes and values consistent with the profession also proposed by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) (Foner & Nancy, 1994).

Patients experience moral dilemmas at hospitals and clinics. This ethical dilemma can be crucial if health care professional do not know how to handle dilemma properly. For this purpose nurses given solid technical based training and rigorous education, humanistic and ethical allows that plays and exercises with quality consciousness professionalism. During their training, they acquire knowledge, skills and attributes which are beneficial during practice nursing. In this sense, nursing educational institutions, whose function is to ensure qualities required by the company in order to exercise their formal practice, as a guarantee of public regulated. It is however, important to provide training and education regarding the ethical and moral codes to the leaders which represent the most important and powerful influence on the culture of a health care organization. However, they are also responsible for creating creditability and tryst within the health care facility. The key factors of the healthcare comprise of respect, responsibility, and honesty which are essential for any organization in order to run on the ethical ...