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NURSING POLICY AND ETHICS 2

Advocating Safe, Legal, Moral and Ethical Standards in Nursing Policy and Politics

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Advocating Safe, Legal, Moral and Ethical Standards in Nursing Policy and Politics

Ethics are standards by which individuals or organizations gauge what is right and wrong. In an ethical view, one is determined to do what is right, depending on a set standard, which could originate from religion, culture, or general upbringing. On the other hand, an ethical policy aims at accomplishing the institution's goal or a country's agenda. In a healthcare setting and specifically nursing, the two concepts interlink. The nurse is a being with adherence to individual ethics, and the hospital is an organization with set policies (Grace & Milliken, 2016). Therefore, ethics such as compassion, respect to life, dignity, and honesty, among many others, play a role in designing the policies of the health organization.

Nursing ethics can be traced back to the 19th century. An ideal document to guide in the same was published in 1950. The publication was made by ANA (American Nurses Association (ANA), which has since then been revised severally to include nine provisions and renamed The Code of Ethics for Nurses (Grace & Milliken, 2016). Moral agency is the ability to make ethically sound decisions on a set criterion. In nursing, the nurse or the hospital can be the moral agents. The moral agency has three components; the agent's moral competence, the framework from which the ethics are measured, and the situation at which the decisions are made. The soundness of the three components determines the success of the moral agency.

Personal integrity is the norms that one possesses at a personal or individual level. These traits are sound and correct to the person. However, in nursing, a person's integrity may come in conflict with the responsibilities of a nurse (Erlen, 2010). Such a situation could involve assisted suicide or abortion; therefore, the nurse is forced to make a decision that could not be right to them but is correct as per their responsibility.

Distributive justice refers to the equitability in the deployment of resources depending on the need as conceived by the healthcare provider. Nurses being front line health care providers are forced to administer distributive justice using the concept of discrimination according to need (Thompson, 2016). This concept can be used, especially during triage; like in a road traffic accident where the most injured receives attention first.

References

Grace, P., & Milliken, A. (2016). Educating Nurses for Ethical Practice in Contemporary Health Care Environments. Hastings Center Report, 46, S13–S17.

https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.625

Erlen, J. A. (2010). Conflict of interest: nurses at risk!. Orthopaedic Nursing, 27(2), 135-139.

Thompson, N. (2016). Anti-discriminatory practice: Equality, diversity and social justice. Macmillan International Higher Education.