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Assignment - Ethics in Health Care
Objectives - At the end of this module students will be able to:
- Investigate ways to prevent plagiarism.
- Apply ethical standards of nursing and healthcare in all situations with respect for the law, the profession, patients, and themselves.
Nursing has been concerned with ethics since early in the history of modern nursing. The Nightingale Pledge was one of the earliest versions of a nursing code of ethics.
The International Council of Nursing revised its Code of Ethics in 2012 (International Council of Nurses, 2012). This guide helps nurses worldwide to maintain ethical nursing practice. You may review the ICN Code of Ethics.
As you read the Code of Ethics, consider how you uphold the statements in your nursing practice. A code of ethics offers general ethical guidelines rather than giving advice about how a nurse should act in a specific situation. These broad statements and principles serve as frameworks to guide individual decision making.
Many healthcare settings have ethics committees that analyze ethical dilemmas that arise, help resolve those dilemmas, and/or review and evaluate the ethical conduct of practitioners.
Think about: Does your institution have an ethics committee, and have you ever attended a meeting?
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