Everyday Ethics: Ethical Issues and Stress in Nursing Practice

Everywhere nurses have long struggled to tackle the ethical issues of patient care. In fact, in Florence's Nightingale nursing document she discusses the moral obligation to maintain confidentiality, communication, and centrality to meet patient needs (Nightingale, 1859; Ulrich & Zeitzer, 2009). Likewise, today's nurse must comply with the core ethical virtues, responsibilities and principles of nursing professionals. However, under the complex moral choices and pressure faced by nurses, it is becoming increasingly difficult for nurses around the world to practice in good faith.

Today's medical environment imposes high demands on nurses in situations where there are serious employee shortages to meet the diverse needs of patients. Ethical problems can occur in any medical situation and serious ethical issues of "right" or "wrong" are the basis for professional decision making and patient compassion. For example, intensive care nurses often face pain and may question the balance between preserving the value of the patient's life and aggressive physiological measures that prolong the pain and produce no fruitful results. not. Naturally, all members of the medical team including the nurse are affected by ethical decisions because they are dealing with pressures to solve ethical problems, sometimes being exhausted .

Connie M. Ulrich, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Nursing in Nursing and Medicine must deal with daily ethical issues. She suggests that a colleague colleague can train the hospital with a unit ethical mentor that can help solve everyday problems. Cecile Yacat, the nurse manager of the staff circle at the Bronx Rehabilitation Center in New York, agreed to allow families to participate in formulating care plans. Workmen's Circle will hold a pre-care planning meeting with family and interdisciplinary teams to discuss choices for changing care goals, such as participation in hospice care and ongoing activities.

Practice of ethical care was strengthened through joint discussions at meetings and conferences. Since 1993, ethics in caring collaborative work has promoted ethical discussions and provided moral education to nurses and other health care providers. Care Annual Conference is an interdisciplinary seminar in the Los Angeles area. Participants can meet national health care providers and share ethical issues, ideas and dilemmas. Nursing ethics continues to be an important aspect of nursing job. Nurses will continue to encounter ethical dilemmas through their careers. What is ethically topic in current medical care is abortion support, the necessity of a nurse 's influenza vaccine, and the dying problem. Nurses need to be familiar with the ethics of nursing professionals and need to be familiar with their ethical standards.

Many nursing ethicists distinguish nursing ethical issues from the broader range of bioethical issues encountered by nurses. These nursing ethicalists regard nursing ethics as an independent field because of their own ethical concerns in the relationship between nurses and patients, families, doctors and other experts. The main criterion for distinguishing ethical issues between care and bioethics is that the nurse is a major subject in the context of a medical problem rather than a medical point of view.