I have never really thought about why I am an ethical person, but I would like to think that I am. I guess I have a tendency to run on autopilot and never feel the need to justify the small choices I make. Obviously I think a lot more before making important decisions, but now that I think about it, I should probably put a bit more emphasis on those smaller decisions too. The most important sources that have influenced my values are my line of work, my career aspirations, and my upbringing. My current line of work has influenced a large portion of my ethical background. I have been a certified nursing assistant (CNA) since I graduated high school. I have worked in both an assisted living home and a hospital. Both environments have a high …show more content…
My mom did not come from the richest family, but my grandma did her best to make her three kids comfortable, even if it meant that she did not have a winter coat. This taught me to be compassionate for others and sometimes sacrificing your own comfort for someone else’s. Furthermore my mom always told me to help those that are less fortunate. Starting in first grade I would sit at the lunch table with the kids who had disabilities. I would like to think that sitting with them allowed them to feel included with the “normal” …show more content…
I would like to be either a medical doctor or a medical researcher. Both of those careers have very high ethical standards since both professions are responsible for people’s lives. Just recently I had to take an online course for research conduct and ethics to continue majoring in biology. I learned some very valuable information from the course such as the fact that someone who reuses their own published work is self-plagiarizing and can be fined and reprimanded. This is due to the fact that reusing previous work can be misleading to a reader. My career aspirations have helped me to become more cautious about the things I say and do, both in person and
My ethics and values are developed from my religious beliefs, my associations with professionals, and self experiences. My religion installs values such as honesty, courtesy, and determination, which determine how I treat other people. My association with professionals helps me to embrace values, such as determination, personal integrity, accountability, and excellence, which are fundamental in designing my academic and professional paths. The experiences I have encountered in life have taught me to observe and embrace many ethical values, including ambition, integrity, and responsibility, which enable me to associate well with my family and other members of the society.
I chose to go into nursing because I had taken a sports medicine class in high school I enjoyed, and I thought I would be guaranteed a job graduating that had something to do with medicine. I can remember being so excited to learn how about illnesses and medications, and all the difference procedures done in the hospital. At the time I thought a nurse’s job was to do what the physicians said, and I expected set guidelines that would tell me what I was and wasn’t allowed to do. I had no idea that I was entering onto a career path involving so much complexity, and that the skills I had dreamed of learning were such a small part of nursing in comparison to the emotional, decision making, and critical thinking skills that a nursing career requires. Ethics in nursing was not something that had ever crossed my mind when I chose to take this path, however now ethics is something that I think about every day I am practicing, whether in clinical or theory courses. Ethical theories often come from the idea that because we are human we have the obligation to care about other’s best interests (Kozier et al., 2010), however in nursing ethical practice is not just a personal choice but a professional responsibility.
I have chosen the business profession topic of higher education administration. I am extremely familiar with this profession; as it is the job that I currently hold. There is a plethora of different activities and task that are dealt with on a daily basis within this profession. Some of these items consist of assisting both full and part time staff and faculty, maintaining order within budgets and finance, including all purchase orders and check requests, facilitating student awards, including scholarships, staffing and training within the department, as well as dealing with public policy and laws within the college. It is immensely obvious that this job would keep anyone busy. This alone is one of the reasons I love this profession so much. Each day brings something new, and important group of items to accomplish. Anyone who holds this job, would go into work everyday knowing that the tasks that they are about to perform, will create a difference to not only to the departments and its students, but will also make a difference within the entire college. This person alone has the responsibility of making ethical decisions every single day as well as watching out for others who may need help being pointed in the proper ethical direction based on their knowledge of the school’s ethics plans that have been put in place. If someone were unaware of the ethical standards in this profession, there is a lot of room for things to head in a corrupt direction rather quickly.
While this is an ambiguous subject, wracked with speculation and ambivalence, it is an appealing topic of study. A curious facet of the ethical dilemma is that it transcends various fields of interest. The ethics issue is scrutinized by philosophers and psychologists, but this theme is frequently introduced in other curricula. Accounting, for example, has its own set of ethical mandates. Moreover, nearly every profession is impacted by a generally accepted code of ethics – doctors, lawyers, contractors, and the list goes on! In fact, almost every day an individual is confronted with a moral decision.
For my career, I feel like I will need a specific set of ethics along with basic, general ethics every job would need. When/if I attend Law School, ethics will be needed here as well. In the court room, professionalism is very important. Your word is incredibly important and if someone finds your word unworthy, your credibility is gone and your word does not mean anything any longer.
Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deals with the moral principles and values that govern our behavior as human beings. It is important in the human experience that we are able to grasp the idea of our own ethical code in order to become the most sensible human beings. But in that process, can ethics be taught to us? Or later in a person’s life, can he or she teach ethics the way they learned it? It is a unique and challenging concept because it is difficult to attempt to answer that question objectively because everybody has his or her own sense of morality. And at the same time, another person could have a completely different set of morals. Depending on the state of the person’s life and how they have morally developed vary from one human
Egoism is the philosophical concept of human self-interest and the relationship between ethics, altruism, and rationality (Robbins). Psychological egoism and ethical egoism are the two concepts or positions that explain how one is or ought to be motivated to obtain their self-interest. The difference between ethical and psychological egoism is that the former deals with how a person should act and the latter deals with a universal concept practiced by all. With the theory of psychological egoism, selfishness proves it to be false; thus, can true ethical egoism be possible?
I have said on multiple occasions that I pride myself on having a strong ethical base. I think of the phrase, “doing the right thing when no one is watching” as a measure of that claim. However, this class has me thinking how I determine what is ethical and what is not. Writing my code of ethics was not tremendously difficult, I believe I have a solid understanding of who I am, what is important, and that my actions have an effect on the people I care about. With that said, what I consider important in life has changed considerably over the last three years, so it is interesting to dive into my code of ethics and gain an understanding of why I try to live by the rules I live by.
The term “ethics” refers to an external set of rules that have been established by an institution or organization, for example, a university, and the members are expected to follow them. On the other hand, integrity refers to an individuals’ internal set of principles that guides their actions and behavior (Czimbal and Brooks n.p.). As a rule, people are usually rewarded when they follow ethical codes of conduct by an external committee or board that monitors their behavior. For a person of high integrity, the benefits are usually intrinsic. Moreover, such individuals always make the right decisions even when they are not being watched. Therefore, this feature of character is often influenced by a person’s upbringing. In
Simply put ethics is the ability to decide what one should or should not do. In one’s personal life, ethics allows you to make decisions that are either utility, considering the positive and negative impacts on those involved; rational self-interest promoting the best outcome for oneself; autonomy, respecting and promoting a person’s self-determination and allowing them to make their own decisions; justice, treating others equally and fairly; or virtue, honoring what is good, excellent or ideal in a person (Gampel, 2010, p. 1,2). These principals follow us in our academic and professional lives as well. In academia using your own work, not plagiarizing
A big influence in developing my ethics were my parents. My parents are immigrants from Mexico. They didn't have much growing up and when it came to socializing with people they were very hospitable and friendly because they felt like that's all they could offer other people in order to give back for what they receive as a form of gratitude. Having
Explain personal integrity, how you have demonstrated integrity, and its future value in your college experiences?
Moral ethics is the belief that all human beings are born to know right from wrong. We come into this world as good people, but the temptations and challenges in life influence our mind set to as it will. Every person on Earth chooses if they’re to follow through with their life of good or go down the path of bad. “A person’s moral ethics” (unknown.)
The esteemed American investor Henry Kravis once said, “If you don’t have integrity, you have nothing. You can’t buy it without it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.” Living ethically is vitally important to enjoying a purposeful, fulfilling life. However, humans are flawed creatures by nature, and it is not easy to always be ethical.
One of the most notorious saying we grow up to know and embody is one that concerns are greatest possession, are family. “Family comes first no matter what, because at the end of the day they are the ones who are always there”. To most this is means to do anything possible to provide and protect our loved ones. If thrown into a situation, could you practice what you preach?! Society has guided us to believe that stealing is wrong but when placed in the footsteps, could one think differently. For every situation moral theories is used as to explain rather an action was right or wrong. It is depicted as being wrong in society but society never thinks about the normal people and their life. Society believes stealing bread to feed a starving family is wrong and immoral, as they look at as the concept of stealing, not the bigger picture. Normal people see it as a means of supporting as they are the ones in the footsteps being walked. For this reason stealing bread to feed your starving family is moral.