UNCC 100 Essay: Responsibilities and Ethics in Nursing Profession

This essay, written by a student, explores the multifaceted aspects of the nursing profession. The author emphasizes the importance of nurses in ensuring the common good and patient safety, highlighting their crucial role in society. The essay delves into the ethical responsibilities of nurses, particularly in providing mental support to patients and maintaining professional integrity. It addresses the impact of leadership qualities, interpersonal skills, and communication in delivering quality care. The author shares personal observations of both positive and negative interactions with nurses and stresses the significance of ethical conduct and adequate staffing levels. The essay also suggests strategies for improving the nursing profession, such as introducing new training programs and fostering respect for all individuals. The essay concludes by referencing relevant literature that supports the discussed concepts.

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Name of the Student
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Author Note

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I think doing common good is one of the most important responsibilities in the lives of the
human beings. For this reason only, human beings were sent to earth by God. One of the most
important aspects in this aspect is to secure the common good of the people in the society as well
as the responsibility of the human beings is to secure the safety of the people. The profession I
have chosen for this paper is the nursing profession. In this profession, I think everyone needs to
be very cautious and respectful to the nurses as they do their duties quite wonderfully.
I think it is indeed extremely important to motivate
the junior staffs and the patients since the patients are the primary responsibility of the nurses. I
suppose the patients who are suffering from severe illnesses need more mental strength and
support. It is the duty of the nurses to provide the mental strength and the senior nurses should
take up the responsibility. The lack of leadership qualities will ruin the integrity of the
profession. I think they need to show more responsibility senses in this course.
The hospitals will not be able to provide their premium care if the senior nurses do not perform
according to their ethics. It is of dire need to show professional attitude to their work when they
are on the floor. I have some firsthand experience of seeing the nurses behave badly towards the
patients as they were suffering from overwork pressure. The interpersonal leadership quality is
reflected in this matter because the nurses have to communicate with the patients, doctors and the
families of the patients as well. I had been admitted in a hospital for an operation a few years ago

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and I had seen a senior nurse was behaving very rudely with the patients’ families. This will be
very effective for the hospital as their reputation will be ruined by this malpractice of bad
behavior of the nurses and other medical staffs.
I feel the dignity of the person is quite hampered when we see these people not performing their
jobs according to their ethics. The ethics of nursing are very important for the professional
practitioners of nursing. I know that the number of nurses in the modern times is not quite high
enough to cope up with the increasing number of patients and therefore, the ratio between the
patients and nurses is quite alarming. This is why the nurses have to take so much pressure in the
working hours. This over workload makes them weary and they cannot act properly. However,
the common good of the patients should never be compromised. These incidents make the
dignity of the nurses crumple down and their interpersonal leadership skills and communication
skills is badly affected.
Many times I have seen that the medical practitioners put up a very bad show in front of the
common public since this has been very problematic for them. I suppose the nurses should focus
on their duties and responsibilities properly so that the common good can be done to the society.
This is a case of shared responsibility because I think the nurses should be dutiful and this would
be very helpful for them to fulfill their duties. The fact of human dignity should be the first
priority for the nurses at the time they are performing their duties.
I think the nurses should be very much careful all the time and they should provide the medicines
and injections to the patients every time with utmost care. It is also their responsibility to keep
the hospitals safe and sterile all the time. This is the very reason I think the nurses are engaged in
the common good for all the people in the society. I would rather suggest the hospitals to

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introduce new courses to the girls of the modern society. The Australian federal government
should be looking to introduce new training programs for the nurses and see if the infrastructure
can be developed in any way. This is how the nursing profession can be made attractive to the
girls. I think the nurses should always respect the human beings of all sectors and provide them
with the proper care for which they came to this profession only.

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