Today our topic of discussion is Statements of Ethical Responsibility.
Statements of Ethical Responsibility
Statements of Ethical Responsibility:
- Caring demands the provision of helping services that are appropriate to the needs of the client and significant others.
- Caring recognizes the client’s membership in a family and community and provides for the participation of significant others in his or her care.
- Caring acknowledges the reality of death in the life of every person, and demands that appropriate support the provided for the dying person and family to enable that to.
- prepare for, and to cope with death when it is inevitable .
- Caring acknowledges that the human person has the capacity to fact up to health needs and problems in his or her own unique way, and directs nursing action in a manner that will assist the client to develop, maintain or gain personal autonomy, self-respect and self- determination.
- Caring, as a response to a health need, requires the consent and the participation of the person who is experiencing the need.
- Caring dictates that the client and significant others have the knowledge and information adequate for free and informed decisions concerning care requirements,alternative and preferences.
- Caring demands that the needs of the client supersede those of the nurse.
- Caring acknowledges the vulnerability of client in certain situations, and dictates restraint in actions which might compromise the client’s rights and privileges.
- Caring involving a relationship which is, in itself, therapeutic, demands mutual respect and trust .
- Caring acknowledges that information obtained in the course of the nursing relationship is privileged, and that is requires the full protection of confidentiality unless such information provides evidence of serious impending harm to the client or to a third party, or is legally required by the courts.
- Caring requires that the nurse represents the needs of the client and that the nurse takes appropriate measures when fulfillment of these needs is jeopardized by the actions of other persons.
- Caring acknowledges the dignity of all persons in the practice of educational setting • Caring acknowledges, respects and draws upon the competencies of others .
- Caring establishes the conditions for the harmonization of efforts of different helping professionals in providing required services to clients.
- Caring seeks to establish and maintain a climate of respect for the honest dialogue needed for effective collaboration.
- Caring establishes the legitimacy of respectful challenge and/or confrontation when the service required by the client is compromised by incompetency, incapacity or negligence or when the competencies of the nurses are not acknowledged or appropriately utilized.
- Caring demands the provision of working conditions which enable nurses to carry out their legitimate and responsibilities.
- Caring demands resourcefulness and restraint- accountability for the use of time, resources equipment, and funds, and requires accountability to appropriate individuals and/or bodies.
- Caring requires that the nurse bring to the work situation in education, practice, administration or research, the knowledge, affective and technical skills required, and that competency in these areas be maintained and updated.
- Caring commands fidelity oneself, and guards the right and privilege of the nurse to act in keeping with an informed moral conscience.
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