Maintaining Compliance In Nursing

Maintaining compliance

Nurses have an obligation to maintain compliance as they assumed as regulated health professionals. Maintaining compliance means keeping promises, being honest and meeting implicit or definite obligations toward their patients, themselves, each other, the nursing profession, other members of the health care team and quality practice settings (Practice Standard,2009).

Nurses as self regulated professionals implicit promise to provide safe, effective and ethical care. Because of their compliance to patients, nurses try to act in the best interest of patients according to clients’ wishes and the standards of practice. Nurses are obliged to refrain from abandoning, abusing or neglecting clients, provide empathic

Regarding the negative influence of the failure to comply the professional ethics by nurses in the health care system on caring quality, nursing services standards, patient’s recovery, satisfaction, professional improvement, nurses’ awareness of the belief of ethics and its boundaries and limitations. Ethical challenges due to new intellectual and philosophical approaches are very important .

Nurses can improve ethical behavior through respecting the patient dignity of all people, privacy, confidentially of all patients, be aware of situations that promote unethical behavior. This may include a poor work environment as overworked nurses are more likely to apply ethics to reduce personal stress , taking responsibility , accountability for all of nurse actions , participate in continuing education to promote competence, in activities that promote nursing and developing professional relationships ( The American Nurses

This creates the impact that patients do not see nurses as cooperative enough to even discuss their health issues with them. This goes a long way to discourage patients from seeking health service. Several studies have looked at monitoring of ethical compliance toward nursing practice (yeoah-asuama,2015).

Abekah-Nkrumah , (2010) state that hospital administrators in a bid to improve the quality of care of patients have policies and programes designed to get health professionals to work up to standards required of their respective professions. These policies and programes are what can be said to be the principles with which professionals such as nurses are to follow and work with to avoid any unfair treatment and risks of patients(yeoah-asuama,2015).

Conversely, Leuter , (2013) state that many nurses face persistent ethical problems but the institutions within which they work are not always able to effectively support nursing staff on these ethical challenges. This reveals a subtle disconnection at certain times between the nurses, the institutions within which they work and the