Nursing Ethics: Importance for Nursing Degree and RN Transition

This report provides a comprehensive overview of nursing ethics, encompassing the core principles of beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice. It emphasizes the crucial role of ethics in nursing education and practice, highlighting how ethical guidelines help nurses navigate complex healthcare dilemmas, make sound decisions, and provide optimal patient care. The report discusses the significance of ethical preparation for student nurses transitioning into the role of a Registered Nurse (RN), emphasizing the importance of understanding healthcare policies, promoting patient rights, and maintaining professional competence. The report also references several studies to support the importance of nursing ethics in healthcare, including the challenges nurses face in ethical dilemmas and the need for high-quality ethics education within nursing programs. The report concludes that adherence to ethical principles is essential for delivering high-quality healthcare and underscores the importance of continuous ethical development for nurses throughout their careers, and this report is available on Desklib.

NURSING ETHICS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Discussion over the topic “Nursing Ethics”, their importance in nursing degree along with
transition into Registered Nurse role...........................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Nursing ethics refers to the various principles that linked with the medical ethics which
are beneficence, non-maleficence. These ethics are generally applied in disciplines which
accounts the moral aspects of the nursing practice, they are the subset of the health care code of
conducts. Reason behind selecting this topic is to know its importance for the nursing degree and
for the student nurse who transit into the registered nurse (Bijani, Tehranineshat and
Torabizadeh, 2019). As nursing ethics helps in avoiding any mistakes which leads to medical
malpractice, also it enables the nurses to easily manage the difficult situation and these
guidelines also give them a moral compass to carry out their job properly and fairly, these ethical
guidelines also helps in encouraging the level of care. As nursing ethics leads the nurses to
identify the healthcare dilemmas and to make the good decisions on the basis of the values that
also adheres the laws and regulation. Following report will be going to discuss the nursing ethics
topic and its importance for the student who graduated and transit into the registered nurse. Main
purpose of this presentation is to learn about the laws and policies that comprises with the
nursing. In this presentation my role is registered nursing.
MAIN BODY
Discussion over the topic “Nursing Ethics”, their importance in nursing degree along with
transition into Registered Nurse role
Ethics have been globally recognized as a fundamental part of the work that has been
performed by nurses. However, the ethical questions that has been faced by most of the nurses in
their work range or within the work premises includes various clinical issues that has been faced
by them on regular basis with their patients. In addition to this, ethical questions have been raised
about the combination and collective work with their peers and colleagues as well as with other
professionals (Jia and et.al., 2021). From various research, it has been evaluated that ethical
questions that have been raised creates high volume and moral distress that nurses experience
into their practices among the care centres. This includes activities which requires handling the
burden related to ethical nursing values of good individual care with the external practical values
of productive, effective and economical practices. hence, the nurses have to manage ethical
questions and issues over daily basis on an individual level, and also required to create
professional perception which involves sharing of goals as well as work related values.

Nursing is a type of profession which is having their own and personal aims and objectives
but also have certain level of obligations to contribute for the development of a healthy society.
this refers to an occupational group that requires and possess of specialized skills that are based
upon mysterious knowledge (Morley, Bradbury-Jones and Ives, 2020). Based on previous studies
it has been identified that nursing ethics have been an elementary part of the overall profession
since from its early years. ethics basically refers to values as well as principles concerning defect
among human conduct along with professional ethics that refers to the basic moral norms that are
highly acceptable into certain occupational groups to deal with morally uncertain situations.
Nursing is basically a provision of ideal conditions to increase people reparative procedure
and prevent it from being interrupted. In general, there are four main principles over which the
nursing code of ethics rests which includes Autonomy, Beneficence, Justice and Non
maleficence. These are the principles for which each and every nurse should be highly aware of
in their day to day practices Nursing profession itself have certain level of obligations to prepare
nurses in a way for ethical morass of clinical practice, and high quality ethics pedagogy should
be significant component of overall nursing education. It is an applied discipline that addresses
the moral features of the total nursing practices. Moreover, it also has been identified that
nursing ethics into education has immense competition with already content fulfilled nursing
programmes (Hossain and Clatty, 2021). This is the most significant aspect as in healthcare
sector, workers and specially nurses are required to recognize health care dilemmas, make great
judgements along with decision based over the values as well as keeping within the laws and
regulations that govern them for appropriate work.
Ethical issues are highly beneficial and valuable for all health care providers and workers.
It is the basic foundation for nurses who are responsible to deal with ethical issues over daily
basis. This situation and challenges arises in front of nurses because nurses take care for the
patients. These are basically the advocates for patients and must have to find a balance among
their practices at the time of providing services to the patients. This information is extremely
beneficial for any candidate who are interested top pursue their career into the nursing field
(Haahr and et.al., 2020). They are moreover requiring to understand that they have to fulfil their
duty to refrain from malnutrition, reduces harm and promote good efforts towards patients. This
module enables to enhance the learning and knowledge regarding the ethical values and
principles of the nurses along with the requirements of the patients which includes providing

them a balanced benefit against any kind of risks. With this, it has been understandable that all
patients have their right to be treated fair and equal by the nurses and other health care staff
members and thus, they should be treat in the same way by the nurses. This particular
information helps to deal patients in better format and make them satisfied by providing them all
the relevant services in most ethical manner. All such knowledge helps to make me aware
through which I can able to get my nursing degree with higher marks. This will definitely enable
me to make career into most successful manner with having all the relevant information
regarding the same.
As a registered nurse, one can get appropriate benefits by collecting information about the
health information system which are becoming common because it is an important tool to
support effectual; decision making as well as assist them or nurses into their day to day
interventions. This also enables nurses to create consistent nursing records as it has been directed
towards the nursing practices as well as procedure. It will enable nurses to deal with difficult
situations along with providing with a moral compass to do their job role into most fair manner.
On the similar level, these practices also promote high level of care and attention towards
patients. This highlights the roles and responsibilities of nurses which includes promotion and
protection of rights, health as well as safety of the patient in complete ways. Moreover, it also
promotes the authority, responsibility and accountability for nursing practices which includes
take decisions, along with actions in consistent manner with an obligation related to provide
optimal patient care (Lamb and Pesut, 2021). The course guides me to take decisions into most
ethical manner at the time of addressing any kind of conflicts or uncertainty regarding competing
values which includes professional, personal, organizational as well as societal values.
Ultimately, this practices highlights the ways in which nurses are required to behave which is
ethically as a profession and the ways in which they have to decide while encounter barriers that
prevents them from fulfilling their professional requirements.
As for the nurses it is important for them to encourage the health and safety and to
maintain the competence along with continuing the personal and professional progress as well.
Nurse should also demonstrate the care for themselves as well as for others, it is their duty to
provide the best treatment facilities to the patient which mark their fast delivery. As lack of
nursing ethics preparation hampers the nurses at both undergraduate and graduate level, it also
cause the hindrance to collaborate with other team members and to also share their voices when

the ethical issues encounters health professionals and parents and their families. Thus it is most
important to understand the health care policies and standards to best practice the nursing and to
reduce the chances for any miserable situation (Fosty, 2021). For the graduate nurse it is
important to have the enough knowledge which helps them to carry out their job as a registered
nurse, thus code of ethics enables them to carry out any task efficiently it also leads them to
develop the further grow opportunities for their business.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that for any profession within the health care it is
important to comply all ethics and policies which helps in carried out the best result. As for the
nurse it is essential to proceed with the rules and regulations that leads them to practice the better
health care practices. Above report have illustrated the description about the nursing ethics along
with its importance in nursing and for the better health care activities. It further illustrated its
importance for the registered nurse as how it leads to manage the situations and to carry out the
best decision even in complex situation.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Bijani, M., Tehranineshat, B. and Torabizadeh, C., 2019. Nurses’, nursing students’, and nursing
instructors’ perceptions of professional values: a comparative study. Nursing
ethics. 26(3). pp.870-883.
Fosty, J.A., 2021. Cognitive Contexts of Ethical Practice: A Phenomenology Study of Nurse
Managers.
Haahr, A. and et.al., 2020. Nurses experiences of ethical dilemmas: A review. Nursing
ethics, 27(1), pp.258-272.
Hossain, F. and Clatty, A., 2021. Self-care strategies in response to nurses’ moral injury during
COVID-19 pandemic. Nursing Ethics, 28(1), pp.23-32.
Jia, Y. and et.al., 2021. Nurses’ ethical challenges caring for people with COVID-19: a
qualitative study. Nursing ethics, 28(1), pp.33-45.
Lamb, C. and Pesut, B., 2021. Conscience and conscientious objection in nursing: A personalist
bioethics approach. Nursing ethics, 28(7-8), pp.1319-1328.
Morley, G., Bradbury-Jones, C. and Ives, J., 2020. What is ‘moral distress’ in nursing? A
feminist empirical bioethics study. Nursing ethics, 27(5), pp.1297-1314.
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