Professional Standards and Institutional Ethics
Introduction
Professional standards are defined as the legal or ethical duty of a professional in a particular field to exercise the level of diligence, skill, and care as stipulated in the code of practice. Normally, an individual is expected to be consistent with what other professionals in the practice are engaging in to comply with the expectation of the profession. On the other hand, institutional ethics is defined as the application, evaluation and articulation of values and moral principles that are related to the organization’s procedures, practices, and policies (Holloway & Wheeler, 2013). Perhaps, in the case studies below, health care institutions and professionals are involved thus prompting the need to examine their
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When professionals in the health sector are compliant to the standards and ethics of practice, then accidents in the sector and any activities that undermine patient safety are bound to be addressed. In particular, whistleblowers in the sector should also be protected to improve service delivery in the health sector.
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Advocating and doing what is ethically right by providing the right service for the individuals within the community. In working on the class readings and discussions, I can’t help but piece together my community project with the ANA (2015), Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements. The fundamental values and commitments of us as nurses. Doing what is right, and advocating for the individuals we serve in the community. The second provision is all about the nurses’ commitment to the patient, family, and/or community, and the third provision is about the nurse promoting, advocating, and protecting the patients’ health and rights. To give one example that would be applicable to the practice of the nurse administrator would be to facilitate education and compliance with these provisions (ANA, 2015). According to Rosenkoetter and Milstead (2010), practicing with ethical conduct is one of the responsibilities for nurse educators. There is an integral responsibility to preserving current codes that are relevant to nursing practice (Carroll, 2015). As of this time in my clinical experiences, I have yet to come across an ethical dilemma. However, I do believe that my community project demonstrates my desire to do what is ethically right for the community and providing the proper service that everyone deserves, even at the end of life. In evaluating the last
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The American Nurses Association created guidelines for the profession including, a set clear rules to be followed by individuals within the profession, Code of Ethics for Nurses. Written in 1893, by Lystra Gretter, and adopted by the ANA in 1926, The Code of Ethics for Nurses details the role metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics have within the field (ANA, 2015). Moral obligation for an individual differs within professions than it does within an individual’s personal life, so the code of ethics was written to establish rules within the profession. The moral obligation to provide quality care include the fundamental principles of respect for persons, integrity, autonomy, advocacy, accountability, beneficence, and non-maleficence. The document itself contains nine provisions with subtext, all of which cannot be addressed within this paper however, core principals related to the ethical responsibilities nurses have will be
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