scholarly journals Deontological aspects of the nursing profession: understanding the code of ethics

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terezinha Nunes da Silva ◽  
Maria Eliane Moreira Freire ◽  
Monica Ferreira de Vasconcelos ◽  
Sergio Vital da Silva Junior ◽  
Wilton José de Carvalho Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Practice Method ◽  
Nursing Professionals

ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate nursing professionals' understanding concerning the Code of Ethics; to assess the relevance of the Code of Ethics of the nursing profession and its use in practice; to identify how problem-solving is performed when facing ethical dilemmas in professional practice. Method: exploratory descriptive study, conducted with 34 (thirty-four) nursing professionals from a teaching hospital in João Pessoa, PB - Brazil. Results: four thematic categories emerged: conception of professional ethics in nursing practice; interpretations of ethics in the practice of care; use of the Code of Ethics in the professional practice; strategies for solving ethical issues in the professional practice. Final considerations: some of the nursing professionals comprehend the meaning coherently; others have a limited comprehension, based on jargon. Therefore, a deeper understanding of the text contained in this code is necessary so that it can be applied into practice, aiming to provide a quality care that is, above all, ethical and legal.

Professional Values and Norms for Nurses in Belgium

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 654-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Verpeet ◽  
Tom Meulenbergs ◽  
Chris Gastmans
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Standards Of Practice

Because of their responsibilities for providing high-quality care, at times when they are continuously confronted with inherent professional and ethical challenges, nurses should meet high ethical standards of practice and conduct. Contrary to other countries, where codes of ethics for nurses are formulated to support those standards and to guide nurses’ professional practice, Belgian nurses do not have a formal code of ethics. Nevertheless, professional ethics is recognized as an important aspect in legal and other professional documents. The aim of this article is to illustrate that codes of ethics are not the only professional documents reflecting nurses’ values, norms and responsibilities. Other documents can also set out professional nursing ethics, and as such replace codes of ethics.

Toward Reclaiming Our Ethical Heritage: Nursing Ethics before Bioethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marsha Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
The Social

American nursing has an extraordinary body of nursing ethics literature from the 1880s to the mid-1960s. This literature developed prior to the rise of the field of medical ethics (later termed biomedical ethics, then bioethics) in the mid-1960s, and bears little resemblance to its later counterparts. Early nursing ethics was nurse-centric; relationally based; addressed nurses’ ethical comportment in all roles; advanced the social ethics of nursing (especially in response to health disparities); and set forth ethical expectations for the profession as a whole. This first wave of nursing ethics is distinctive and differs significantly from contemporary bioethics, yet it remains grossly under-researched. It offers nurses a wise, comprehensive, generous, and learned ethics that deserves to be reclaimed for today’s nursing practice. This article will offer an author backdrop and an historical review of early nursing ethics literature; consider the nursing profession as a calling; discuss the pivot to bioethics and the Code of Ethics as anomaly.

Ensuring Students Engage with Ethical and Professional Practice Concepts

2009 ◽  
pp. 327-350
Author(s):  
J. Barrie Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
International Model ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

The teaching and learning of aspects related to ethics and professional practice present significant challenges to both staff and students as these topics are much more abstract than say software design and testing. The core of this chapter is an in-depth examination of how ethics and professional practice can be addressed in a very practical manner. To set the scene and provide contextual information the chapter commences with information on an international model of professionalism, a code of ethics for Software Engineers, and different teaching and learning approaches that can be employed when addressing ethical issues. The major part of the chapter is then devoted to detailing a particular teaching and leaning approach, which has been developed at the University of Sunderland in the UK. Finally conclusions, views on the present situation and future developments, and details of outstanding challenges are presented.

scholarly journals Productivity of subjectivity and autonomy of nursing professionals in Pediatrics

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Portella Ribeiro ◽  
Giovana Calcagno Gomes ◽  
Marina Soares Mota ◽  
Camila Daiane Silva ◽  
Paulo Roberto Boeira Fuculo Junior
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
University Hospitals ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Pediatric Hospitalization ◽  
Nursing Managers ◽  
Nursing Team ◽  
Nursing Professionals

ABSTRACT Objective: To know the aspects involved in the production of subjectivity and autonomy of nursing professionals working in Pediatric Units. Method: An exploratory and descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, performed with users, professionals and nursing managers, totaling 44 participants. Data collection took place in the pediatric hospitalization units of two University Hospitals through semi-structured interviews, organized and treated by Nvivo 10 software and then submitted to content analysis. Results: The production of subjectivity and autonomy in nursing workers involves both the conditions of the work environment as the relation of the nursing team, the relation of hierarchy and the profile of the professional that works in the Pediatric Unit. Final considerations: The valorization path of the nursing profession emerges, whose knowledge and competence in the area of work contribute to the construction of autonomous subjectivities.

scholarly journals Standard Operational Protocols in professional nursing practice: use, weaknesses and potentialities

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camila Balsero Sales ◽  
Andrea Bernardes ◽  
Carmen Silvia Gabriel ◽  
Maria de Fátima Paiva Brito ◽  
André Almeida de Moura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Professional Nursing Practice ◽  
Subsequent Application ◽  
Implementation Method ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Nursing Professionals

ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the use of Standard Operational Protocols (SOPs) in the professional practice of the nursing team based on the theoretical framework of Donabedian, as well as to identify the weaknesses and potentialities from its implementation. Method: Evaluative research, with quantitative approach performed with nursing professionals working in the Health Units of a city of São Paulo, composed of two stages: document analysis and subsequent application of a questionnaire to nursing professionals. Results: A total of 247 nursing professionals participated and reported changes in the way the interventions were performed. The main weaknesses were the small number of professionals, inadequate physical structure and lack of materials. Among the potentialities were: the standardization of materials and concern of the manager and professional related to patient safety. Conclusion: The reassessment of SOPs is necessary, as well as the adoption of a strategy of permanent education of professionals aiming at improving the quality of care provided.

Using the Canadian Code Of Ethics for Registered Nurses to Explore Ethics in Palliative Care Research

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 600-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Arraf ◽  
Ginny Cox ◽  
Kathleen Oberle
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Direct Benefit ◽  
Care Research ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
Excellent Care

Nursing research in palliative care raises specific and challenging ethical issues. Questions have arisen about whether such research is morally justified, given the low likelihood of direct benefit to dying patients as research participants. The Canadian Code of ethics for registered nurses outlines eight primary values intended to guide nursing practice. We use these values to explore the moral dimensions of research with the palliative care population. Our conclusion is that palliative care research is needed to foster excellent care for these patients and their families, but that nurses must remain constantly vigilant to ensure that participants are protected from resultant harms. Through this exploration we highlight particular considerations that nurse researchers must contemplate when accessing a vulnerable population.

scholarly journals Nursing Care Systematization: A Study At A Teaching Hospital

10.3823/2365 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Passos Vigolvino Macêdo ◽  
Alyne Fernandes Bezerra ◽  
Aran Rolim Mendes De Almeida ◽  
Thayana Rose de Araújo Dantas ◽  
Rafaella Felix Serafim Veras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Nursing Process ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
Empirical Material

Objective: Investigate the understanding of nurses who work at a teaching hospital, in relation to NCS and the nursing process; ascertain facilities/difficulties related to the applicability of the nursing process in that service; and verify the opinions of those professionals for the improvement and/or effectiveness of the nursing process at the hospitalization units of the hospital. Method: Exploratory, descriptive study, with a qualitative approach. The sample consisted of 42 nurses who answered a questionnaire. The empirical material was analyzed and categorized based on the content analysis technique and discussed in the light of the literature. Results: From the participants' discourses, two categories of analysis emerged: 1) understanding of NCS as a tool to organize the Nursing work process and improve the quality of care; and 2) applicability of the nursing process at the various hospitalization units of the institution. Conclusion: The implementation and applicability of that method depend on not only the knowledge and motivation of the nursing professionals, but also on a strategic planning involving management and staff, from the recognition of their importance in order to obtain adherence and effective operationalization in practice. Descriptors: Nursing; Nursing Process; Professional Practice.

Postępowanie przed Naczelnym Sądem Aptekarskim w sprawie naruszenia zasad etyki zawodowej farmaceuty

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-226
Author(s):  
Jolanta Pacian
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Professional Group ◽  
Professional Responsibility ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Tacit Consent ◽  
Nurses And Midwives

Members of the pharmacists’ self-government can be held liable before pharmaceutical courts for conduct breaching the rules of professional ethics and deontology, and infringing legal regulations concerning the practice of the pharmacist’s profession. Thus, the basis of professional responsibility of pharmacists is generally similar to the rules of professional liability of doctors, nurses, and midwives. Nevertheless, certain significant differences can be noticed in the course of the proceedings. Such a difference occurs in the proceedings before the Supreme Pharmaceutical Court. The professional group of pharmacists cannot be indifferent to punishable acts because this would imply tacit consent to breach of legal provisions regulating the professional practice and the rules of professional ethics and deontology set forth in the Code of Ethics of the Polish Pharmacist. Therefore, it is crucial that pharmacists, who practise a profession of public trust, should take care of the appropriate status of their occupation in order to conduct properly their mission of serving the society.

Ethical Issues in Rehabilitation Counselor Supervision and the New 2010 Code of Ethics

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet L. Glosoff ◽  
Kathe F. Matrone
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Counselor Supervision ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor

The 2010 revision of the Code of Professional Ethics for Rehabilitation Counselors addresses changes in ethical standards related to rehabilitation counselor supervision. In an effort to promote awareness of these changes, this article offers a brief overview of the revisions and implications for practice including the responsibility of supervisors to actively engage in and support professional development activities.

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