Ethics
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 Disaster Nursing
As a nurse, you are responsible for the care of your patients and their safety in the event of a disaster. All emergency plans are centered around the best way to keep patients and staff out of harm’s way as much as possible. On top of caring for their patient’s, nurses are also responsible for triaging of patients, if necessary, to ensure care is efficient and the most people can be helped. Nurses will also coordinate places for patients to stay if they aren’t assigned to a room, and they will help implement the emergency plan while remaining calm and professional. As you can imagine, the task of a nurse…
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Ethical Considerations for EBP After completing all the ethical assignments for class, my understanding and viewpoint of how nurses contribute to the ethical conduct of research and implementation of research findings has only become stronger. In the movie we watched, “Miss Evers’ Boys”, the medical professionals knew that a cure had been found for Syphilis, yet they withheld this from the volunteers to examine how the disease progressed. This position by the medical professionals was an extreme case of ethical misconduct, and patient deaths even resulted from this lack of ethical reasoning. This research experiment was highly unethical because it caused physical and emotional harm to patients and families. It…
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Assumptions As a nurse, I feel that it is my role to uphold my own personal ethical standards as well as the ethical principles of the facility I work in. It is important to me that I treat my patients ethically, and use the best practices supported by research and evidenced based practice to treat them. This way, my patient’s will always receive the best care possible without violating my own moral standards or the ethical principles of the facility. If I feel that a patient treatment or procedure is unethical, it’s also my job to notify my supervisor that I cannot complete the procedure or treatment. As a…
