Ethics and Values in Nursing Leadership

NURSING
LEADERSHIP

INTRODUCTION:
• The ethics and values of an individual, a group, an organization or a
community plays major role in guiding them regarding their deeds.
• These values include developing health, averting risk of disease and decreasing
or eliminating suffering.
• It is also important to focus on the ethical values and religious beliefs of the
individuals in a community receiving care and treatment.
• It makes it necessary to provide them learning in order to make them
understand the fact regarding the coordination of care (Chipulu et al., 2018)

LOCAL RELIGIOUS
COMMUNITY:
• Hispanics or the Latinos are one of the largest ethnic and racial minority
community in the regions of the United States.
• Hispanics community are found to have a strong heritage which includes their
family, culture and religion.
• Every local group of these Hispanic community has their own cultural beliefs
and rituals which are different from one another.
• They also have their own health care and treatment beliefs which in various
aspects keeps them deprived of better health and lifestyle (Browning et al.,
2016).

NURSING CODE OF
ETHICS:
• The code of ethics for nursing was proposed by the American Nurses
Association (ANA).
• The Registered Nurse Code of Ethics comprises of different ethical nursing
values, which is found to be most important for any nursing practice to deliver
a better care and treatment.
• This code of ethics conducts both integrity and professionalism in their practice
• It guides the nursing staffs to provide equal heath care rights and treatment
without discriminating on any aspect (Epstein & Turner, 2015).