Ethics in nursing: categorization of legal processes

ABSTRACT Objectives: to categorize factual elements of ethical-disciplinary nursing lawsuits in the state of Goiás. Methods: cross-sectional, retrospective study, based on secondary data obtained from ethical-disciplinary lawsuits filed at the Regional Nursing Council of Goiás (Coren-Goiás) between the years 2010 and 2019. Results: the highest number of lawsuits filed was in 2013 and 2014, with a greater frequency in the state capital. The majority came from the Nursing Ethics Committees and ex-officio complaints. The professional with most complaints was the nursing technician, aged between 31 and 40 years old, at the beginning of their career. The most common type of complaints referred to performing attributions that were not within the nursing competences. Conclusions: as a highlight are the contributions of this study to professional ethics in nursing and the clear need to consolidate these skills in nurses who are in training and in the continuous education for those already in the profession.

Awareness, Behavior, and Practices of Nurses related to Nursing Ethics, in tertiary care Hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan

Purpose: The objective is to determine nurse’s knowledge about Nursing Ethics and association with behavior and practice of these nurses. Methodology: Cross-sectional Study Design. This study is conducted in different hospital settings of Lahore. a total of 150 nurses are selected by convenient sampling technique. They are taken informed consent and the data was collected including demographics and the nursing ethics. Data was analysed on SPSS version 24.0 Results: Most of the nurses working in different hospital are females and in our participants, 76% are females while 24% are males. Mostly belongs to age group of 20-30 years. Nearly 87% of the participants are single, i.e. hasn’t married yet. The more qualified nurse, more the KAP of nursing ethics in hospitals Unique contribution to theory, policy and practice: The study results show that the nurses need to gain better insight into the legal aspects of their profession and to enhance their level of respect, particularly for nurses of lower age, with a history of employment and contractual strength.

The Nightingale Still Sings: Ten Ethical Themes in Early Nursing in the United Kingdom, 1888-1989

There is, by Nightingale’s intent, a centrality of “the moral” within nursing. The good nurse was to be a good woman as well, good in a moral sense. Her writings suggested that the qualities of a good nurse must first be the qualities of a good woman. Early American nursing leaders created an extensive body of literature specifically devoted to nursing ethics that included approximately 100 nursing ethics textbooks and editions. Unlike the American literature, the term “ethics” was rarely used in the United Kingdom (UK) nursing literature and there were few nursing ethics textbooks written by UK nurses. Despite this difference, UK journals and textbooks devoted considerable and ongoing attention to concerns that were specifically ethical in nature. This article describes the design and sources used in an extensive review of the UK literature, and describes ten ethical themes in areas that constitute continuing ethical threads in the first century of UK nursing literature from the 1880s to 1980.