Outcome 7 focuses on integrating professional standards of
moral, ethical, and legal conduct into the care of persons, families, groups,
communities, and populations. The four
main classes that helped me achieve this outcome were Leadership/Management,
Professional Nursing Roles, Transcultural Nursing, and Ethics. During the
Transcultural Nursing class I completed an assignment pertaining to the
similarities and differences of the American Nursing Association’s Code of
Ethics and the ICN’s Code of Ethics. Throughout the Leadership/Management class
and the Professional Nursing Roles class I spent time focusing on the six roles
of nursing practice and what it means to have morals and be in moral distress.
Most importantly, the Ethics class helped cement the foundation and value of
nursing ethics by multiple assignments pertaining to abortion, vaccines,
adolescents, organ allocation, long term care patient dignity, beneficence and
nonmaleficence, mental health, stereotyping, biases, “us vs. them” thinking,
appropriate use of translators, and ethical culturally competent care.
The six roles of nursing
practice include sentry, healer, guide, teacher, collaborator, and leader. There are also many qualities an ethical nurse possesses including moral integrity, honesty, truthfulness, moral courage, advocacy, power, and culturally sensitive care. In
my current and future nursing role I will uphold the qualities of an ethical
nurse and practice the six roles of nursing daily. Currently, working as a NICU
RN I am exposed to moral and ethical decisions constantly due to caring for
high risk infants and their families who may have extremely hard decisions to
make regarding their infant’s future. Not only am I around ethical dilemmas on
a daily basis, I am also subject to moral distress due to attachment to the
infants or struggling with the decision family members have had to make for
their little one. I will remember to provide parents with support, guidance,
and needed information regarding difficult decisions and respectfully accept
their decisions. I will care for infants and their families appropriately
without bias or “us vs. them” thinking.
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