Leadership and Ethics

Leadership and Ethics
On Professional Platform
Student Details
6/11/2019
Nursing Leadership and Ethics

PROFESSIONAL PLATFORM: LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS
In every profession, the baseline is ethical practices. There is a code of ethics in every
profession, which guides the behavior of the individual in that profession. Code of ethics may
depend upon different factors of that profession; however, all talk about the moral principles of
the individuals. They share a common thing among them and other ethical principles are honesty
and integrity (Rodney & Varcoe, 2016). Code of ethics in any profession directs the
employees towards the attainment of individual goals as well as an organizational goal by
considering the moral and ethical principles of the organization as well as of society. Similarly,
the code of ethics for nursing profession focus on the process of decision-making by different
nurses should be based on moral grounds (ILM, 2019).
The main duty of the individuals, who are in the nursing profession like me, is to take
care of the patient in front of them as effectively and promptly as possible. They should respect
the patients and show honesty in their treatments. A nurse is important with the treatment of a
doctor. It is considered that the nurse is the person, which takes care of the patient by doing their
dressing, giving them medicines on time, etc. In this way, the profession of nursing needs ethical
values, with that the nurses can behave under the code of ethics and can efficiently help their
patients (Chonko & Hunt, 2018).
The importance of ethics in leader nursing behavior can be made clearer when I look in
my past, where the nursing profession lays in-depth influence on my childhood. When the kids
are, small they usually got hurt more, as they like to play and their bones are not that strong at
that time. They often had taken to doctors and nurses to get treatment, the same goes for me
also. In those experiences, I encounter with the art of nursing. At that time, I can sense and grab
the polite, calm, prompt, understanding and helping the behavior of those nurses. This childhood
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PROFESSIONAL PLATFORM: LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS
influence of nursing profession helps individuals and me to grab the ethical values of this
profession and the code of ethics that need to be followed while working (Gallagher, 2011).
The treatment of adult and aged persons also helped me to grab the importance of ethics
in nursing. When a nurse treats and assists an old or adult person, at that time it helps them to
treat that person with the utmost care and excellence. It is considered that the behavior of an
adult person is so much different from a child. Their behavior can be calm, fearful, and even
violent sometimes. The person in the nursing profession needs to take care of this behavior of his
patients and behave in that situation accordingly so that the ethical grounds of this profession
cannot be broken. The influence of that experience on me is that I come to know about different
ethical principles that can help me in leader my current behavior of nursing to a higher level
(Holten & Brenner, 2015).
When I come to experience, some childhood and adulthood nursing practices and
situations related to it, this helped me by influencing my behavior largely. I come to know some
basic principles of ethics that one needs while taking care of the patient (Carberry & Cross,
2015). The kids are more delicate than adult hence they need patience and friendliness from the
side of the nurses however when one talk about adult then the nurses need to have the
understanding and influential behavior so that they can make the adult person comfortable and
treat them well.
The influences of childhood and adulthood nursing have made my mind in the way that
wants to take care of the patients with utmost care and safety. It also made me calm and have
patience as some times this profession can become stressful. From my experiences of childhood
and adulthood, the nursing profession has influenced me personally and professionally. Many
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