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The final domain of the NMC Code (2015) is the promotion of professionalism and trust. The reputation of nurses needs to be defended, and from a professional perspective, an individual must uphold the values of the profession to ensure that nurses remain respected and valuable members of the healthcare team.
This professional body demands that nurses engage in ethical care at all times, and dictates the professional values underpinning these care decisions. Hence, it is a natural extension of the role of the NMC to facilitate ethical decision-making and provide expert guidance to nurses on an individual basis, and organisational basis, as needed.
Nurses are required to have knowledge and awareness concerning professional values to provide safe and high-quality ethical care. Professional values are demonstrated in ethical codes and clarify nursing profession practices, such as the quality of professional care. With the ever-increasing number and complexity of ethical dilemmas in care ...
Professional Values. Professional values guide nurses in nursing care practices, decisions, and solutions of ethical problems and also in interaction with other members of the profession, other health professionals, and society (Alkaya, S.,Yaman, S., Simones J. (2018)
The Oxford Mini-dictionary for Nurses (2008) describes ‘reflection’ as the ‘careful consideration of personal actions, including the ability to review, analyse and evaluate situations during or after events. It is an essential part of the learning process that will result in new methods of approaching and understanding nursing practice’.
This essay will discuss the underpinning professional, ethical and legal principles of nursing using the standards of conduct outlined by the professional regulatory body; the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the code of conduct (NMC 2009). The policies which will be explored are confidentiality, informed consent and autonomy.
Professional values influence behavior therefore, people lacking values in development, may miss direction, and critical thinking skills. The latter are momentous factors within the nursing field. In this sense, adherence to these principles in daily nursing practice can be a major problem for potential nurses who are not fully committed to the ...
Defining capacity and consent. Capacity can be defined as the ability of an individual to make their own decisions (Dhai & Payne-James, 2013). Within a nursing context, this means that patients have capacity when they are able to agree to or decide on any health intervention, treatment course or assessment.
Fry, Veatch & Taylor (2010) argue that personal values, such as respect, responsibility, and obligation are dependent on the moral attitude of the nurse. Professional attitudes in nursing comprise of inclinations, feelings and emotions that conform to their principles and serve as the basis for their behavior.
Article 2 gives every patient the right to life and values the protection of that life under law. This is clearly important for nurses to understand, as life is precious and is often endangered by ill health. Article 3 of the Human Rights Act prohibits the use of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.