ETHICAL CONCERNS OF NURSING PRACTICE

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Ethical Concerns of Nursing Practice
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An ethical issue arises when a decision, activity, or situation creates a struggle with a
society’s correct principles. These are very challenging for any profession to work under any
guidelines or procedures to work with these rules (Aitamaa et al., 2016). A few common issues
are unrealistic goals, use of questionable technologies or equipment, work cultures, and even
decision-making liabilities. Health care centres or hospitals have many ethical problems that
arise every day, like managing hospital duties and responsibilities, medical treatments. It requires
immediate responses about issues like decision makings, careful observation, differentiating
between right and wrong, patient’s privacy, relationship with patients (Hall et.,2018). Main
concerns faced by the nurses in any health care are- they must obey to the value of justice
towards the patients as well as to the hospitals, generosity, self-sufficiency, accuracy, no
maleficence, faithfulness as well as responsibility (Chadwick et al., 2016). The nurses should
identify the ethical problem and make decisions accordingly, and they should also inform the
patients as well as the other team members, especially the supervisors about the concerned issue,
must practice in a guided manner following the program of ethics. The technology-based
treatment has been practised all over the world and due to this; they face specific bioethical
issues in the workplace (Carman, 2016). They must analyse and decide accordingly. The step of
decision making is- identifying the problem, addressing the problem with correct data and
information, analysing it, selecting the best solutions to solve the problem. The chief purpose of
the paper is to identify the critical issues upon a case study and to provide the right interventions
and solutions to the patient following the ethical guidelines.
A code of nursing practice and ethics is also one of the main areas that must be
considered in treating a patient (Epstein & Turner, 2015). In the given case, the patient is elderly
patients who went through an operation and are vital signs are also not promising. The appointed

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nurse noticed her conditions efficiently and also found that she is deteriorating from her previous
indication (Nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au, 2018). Being in professional duty, it is one of the
primary responsibilities for a nurse to observe any patient, especially in a surgical ward routinely
(Flagg, 2015). In this respect, according to the code of conduct of nursing practice, the nurse
effectively followed few domains of the training, like person-centred observe, humble
relationship, proficient behaviour and health and safety along with beneficence, accountability,
fidelity (Nursing and Midwifey Board of Australia, 2018).
It is also essential for any nurse in a duty to inform about the patient whether the
condition is stable or deteriorating to the supervisors or any higher authority (Ammouri et
al.,2015). It is the major priority for any nurse to care for the patient with their need. Here in this
case, the patient was uncomfortable with the nurse and was willing to get back home. In that
case, the nurse must communicate with the family of the patients or with the near and dear once
to give her moral support and to provide with a homely atmosphere (Haugan, 2014), which is
another code of conduct named informed consent (Nursing and Midwifey Board of Australia,
2018). It can be an effective alternative and might give her a quick recovery which the nurse
should have followed.
Maintaining the privacy of the patient is one of the ultimate priorities for any nurse
(Özturk, Bahçecik & Özçelik, 2014). Here the nurse efficiently planned to guide the patient to
the washroom to maintain her sanitation, which will also reduce the chance of any further
infections, which is a clear indication of loyalty and responsibility. The nurse should try
alternative approaches towards any patients if the patient is not comfortable with the scenario. In
this case, the conflict of interest is also observed (Rathert, May & Chung, 2016). The patient was
not comfortable to seek any help from the nurse. The primary reason for conflict can due to the