Ethics in Nursing: A Comprehensive Overview

In today’s world one of the most competitive and most rewarding jobs are in the Health Care Field. This field is composed by different areas of specialization that focus on treating, preventing, and diagnose anything that is threatening their patient health. Different professional individuals devote their knowledge to take care of the health of their patients. However, from all the professions, the professionals that spend the most time with the patients are the nurses. Nurses a lot of time with the patients implementing the orders given by the physicians and monitoring the patients status. Nurses not only have to treat patients, but also interact with their families, doctors, and other health care professionals. Considering this career involves
The code helps them identify different situations and gives them professional ways to manage them. Most importantly, the code sets the guidelines of the nursing profession. This paper will summarize some of the aspects of the code of ethics for nurses including: Privacy and Confidentiality, Respect for Human dignity, Delegation of nursing activities, Health needs and concerns, and Responsibilities to the public.
Nurses play an important role in the recovery and assurance of a patient’s health. They need to make sure patients are safe and advocate for their rights. This idea is stated under Provision number 3 in the Code of Ethics for nurses. To better explain it, the following section will explain two main points that belong to this provision. The first aspects this paper will cover are privacy and confidentiality. Privacy is essential to every human being; it is a right that every person is born with. Nurses advocate for an environment that provides for sufficient physical privacy, including auditory privacy for discussion of personal nature and policies and practices that protect the confidentiality of information (Code of Ethics for nurses, 2011, p. 6). In some cases, a person can be sick, unconscious, alone in a hospital room with no