Nursing Assignment: Ethical Considerations and Nursing Practice

This nursing assignment explores the crucial role of ethical principles in healthcare, specifically within the nursing profession. The paper emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations like autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice in ensuring quality patient care. It highlights how these principles guide nursing professionals in treating patients with respect, regardless of their background, and in balancing professional duties with ethical obligations. The discussion includes the ethical dimensions of nursing practice, emphasizing the importance of maintaining patient rights and dignity while providing a framework for professional conduct. The paper references relevant literature to support the discussion, concluding with the significance of ethical considerations for both patient well-being and the professional development of nurses. The assignment also mentions the ethical considerations regarding sexual harassment in the nursing environment.

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Introduction
Ethical principles could be described as the aspects that is considered to be right and
important in any critical condition (Vryonides et al., 2019). In healthcare it is considered that
the nursing professionals comply with the ethical principles effectively and provide their
patients with critical and quality healthcare (Aitamaa et al., 2016). This paper discusses all
these aspects with the detailed discussion of the important of nursing profession and it’s
associated with ethical principles.
Discussion
There are four primary ethical principles that are followed or considered as the
parameter for an ethically complied healthcare process (Wilburn, 2018). These are the
autonomy, beneficence, non- maleficence and justice which needs to be complied with so that
effective care could be provided to the patients. While receiving healthcare, patients are
unable to take care of their rights and dignity and hence, it is the duty of the professionals to
consider this condition and provide them with ethically complaint and improved quality care
to improve patient’s mental, physical and emotional health (Koskenvuori, Numminen &
Suhonen, 2019). Ethical principles also allows the nursing professionals to provide effective
and quality care to the patients without taking consideration of their age, gender, their
citizenship, their sexual orientations and their financial status and treat them equally (Ross et
al., 2019). Therefore, from this discussion it was also found that it is important that the
nursing professionals develop a balance between their ethical considerations and their
professional duty so that quality of the patient care could be maintained (Vryonides et al.,
2015).

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Conclusion
While concluding this paper, it would be mention that ethical consideration is not only
effective for patent’s rights and dignity but also provides a professional framework to nursing
professionals for their nursing practice.

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