Emotional Intelligence: Avoiding Ethical Challenges in Nursing

This essay explores the critical role of self-awareness in promoting emotional intelligence among nurses to effectively navigate and avoid ethical challenges within clinical settings. It highlights that ethical challenges can negatively impact nurses' careers, patient health outcomes, and organizational reputation. The essay emphasizes the importance of building resilience through emotional intelligence, self-reflection, strong professional relationships, and adherence to ethical guidelines. It concludes that nurse managers play a vital role in maintaining patient safety and that promoting understanding and awareness of patient safety principles is essential for nurses to build successful careers, improve patient outcomes, and enhance the organization's reputation. Desklib provides students access to a wealth of resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to further support their learning.

Self awareness and promoting emotional intelligence to avoid ethical challenges in
clinical settings
Introduction
Nurses play difficult roles in their workplaces and face numerous challenges
and hazards. They need to showcase their knowledge on self-awareness in
order to promote the concept of emotional intelligence and resilience at the
workplace. The challenges present in the clinical settings may hamper
•The nursing career.
•Patients’ health outcome.
•The reputation of the organization. (Mshellia, Malachy, Sabo & Abu-
Abdissamad, 2016)
Challenges
One of the greatest challenges that the nurses
encounter is ethical challenge. Nurses play a critical
role in providing healthcare to the patients with
various health issues. Maintaining the
confidentiality of the patients sometimes create
ethical challenges. Emotional intelligence is a
significant predictor of perception of the ethical
behaviour of the nurses. The ethical challenges
raised can create many issues such as,
•Affect the trustworthiness and justice
•Hamper individual and organizational
accountability
•Demote patients’ safety
(Başoğul & Özgür, 2016) (Tomar, 2016)
Strategies
By building resilience, it is possible to overcome ethical
challenges at the workplace. While some of the challenges are
really difficult to cope up with but assistance of the seniors
can help on that. Ways to build resilience at the workplace
include,
•Building emotional intelligence
•Self-reflecting on the challenges
•Focussing on building a strong professional relationship with
patients.
•Staying honest and truthful to the patients.
•Following the rules and regulations of ethics in the clinical
settings.
(Cope, Jones & Hendricks, 2016) (Kangasniemi,Vaismoradi,
Jasper & Turunen, 2013)
Conclusion
Nurse Managers play an essential role in maintaining patients’ safety overcoming all the ethical challenges. By building individual resilience in the workplace,
nurses can overcome ethical challenges. Promoting understanding and awareness of the principles of patients’ safety can be helpful in this regard. If all the
ethical challenges are avoided then it will help the nurses to build a successful career, there will be an improvement in the patients’ health outcome and the
reputation of the organization will also be increased in this way. (Foster, McCloughen, Delgado, Kefalas & Harkness, 2015)
Self-awareness
Fundamental concept of
professional nurses that leads to
greater competence.
Kelly & Lazenby, 2019)
Kelly & Lazenby, 2019)
Xu, He, Zeng & Chen, 2019)

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