Ethical Issues For The Nurses

Ethical Issues For The Nurses

Introduction

Nursing can be stated as one of the predominant and important field of healthcare and medicine. It is the coordination and the devotion of nurses that the patients recover fr5om their sickness really well in the hospitals. They are available at all the time to take care of the patient irrespective of any kind of discrimination. Despite of all these initiatives and the ethical conduct, there are certain that nurses faces in the hospitals as a part of their profession. Most of these issues identifies the code of ethics. Many nurses have to leave their jobs and too many of them have started to avoid the profession because of the ethical issues nurses facing the profession.

Nurses face a lot of issues and dilemmas in coming up to terms with the code of ethics and they fail to make it possible if the perception and the needs of the patient are fulfilled and are up to the mark. Codes of ethics are implied to ensure the quality of the services provided in the field of healthcare. Codes of ethics are designed to ensure quality work in medical care. “In the literature, the terms 'ethical challenge' and 'ethical distress' could be used to denote problems or issues with an ethical dimension but with no exact definition.” (Aitamaa, Et. al, 2010).

There are many ethical issues that relates to the profession of nursing. Since a long period of time, the professionals in the field of healthcare are subjected to many healthcare problems and issues. These professionals face many ethical issues and problems in the field of their work. The codes of ethics or the ethical issues can be are observed when principles and the actions of these professional coincide with the opinions and the ideas of the patients. Nurses are the employee that are most expected to interact with patients. They associate themselves with the workforce in the hospital, as well. So many issues arises in the profession of nursing that nurses face and the code of ethics could beapplied to it (Storch, 2007).

Discussion

Ethical dilemma/ Issues for Nurses

The Codes of Ethics were formulated by the ANA Board of Directors and the Congress on Nursing Practice in 1995. An initial substantive critique and suggested modifications, final recommendations and, open review, process was created by a task force known as Code of Ethics Project Task Force in 1996. The ride of the issue is related to the ethics and conduct actually rose during 1990s due to the lack of human resource. Due to this lack of quality human resources, there were less professionals in order top provide quality services in order to meet the expectations of the patients (Lin, Liang, 2007).  Similarly, funding was another issue that arose with the advent of the new technology. This provides expensive treatment option that often ends up with the debate that for who, when and how these treatment will be used (Mezey, Fulmer, Abraham, 2006). Given the ubiquitous nature of ethical dilemmas in all areas of clinical practice today, ...