Negligence and the Nurse: The Value of the Code of Ethics... : Clinical Nurse Specialist (2024)

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9 Provisions of the Nursing Code of Ethics

The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient. The nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice; makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to provide optimal patient care.

NEGLIGENCE VERSUS MALPRACTICE

The code of ethics states that nurses must recognize incompetent, unethical, illegal, or impaired practice that places the patient at risk. Once recognized, the nurse has a duty to inform the appropriate person to mitigate the risk to the patient.

For example, a nurse who fails to notice or document changes in a patient's condition may prevent a patient from receiving a timely diagnosis. Diagnostic errors can lead to the following: Untreated pain. Worsening of a condition.

1.8 Nurses demonstrate professional values such as respect, justice, responsiveness, caring, compassion, empathy, trustworthiness and integrity. They support and respect the dignity and universal rights of all people, including patients, colleagues and families.

The role of the CNS is to: ensure you and the people close to you have access to information and advice about your diagnosis and treatment. help you to make sense of a large amount of unfamiliar information, and support your decision-making about your care, treatment and follow up arrangements.

The codes outline how the nurses should behave ethically as a profession, and how they should decide when encounter barriers preventing them from fulfilling their professional obligations. The codes can also support nurses in their practice and reduce their moral distress.

In the case of a medical man, negligence means failure to act in accordance with the standards of reasonably competent medical men at the time. There may be one or more perfectly proper standards, and if he confirms with one of these proper standards, then he is not negligent.”

Negligence is a legal concept that refers to the failure of an individual or entity to exercise a reasonable level of care in a specific situation. It is an essential element in various civil lawsuits, especially personal injury cases, where the injured party alleges that another person's negligence caused harm.

Basically whenever a nurse fails to meet a patient's needs properly. It's a breach in the standard of care (or an act of omission). One example of negligence as a nurse could be a nurse failing to administer medication to a patient at the prescribed times. This leads to the patient's condition worsening.

Basic ethical principles provide guidance for healthcare workers to protect the rights of individuals and support an ethical culture for safety, health, and well-being for all.

What is the nursing code of ethics for accountability? ›

According to the code of ethics of the American Nurses Association (ANA), “Accountability means to be answerable to oneself and others for one's own actions.” Accountability in nursing requires nurses to follow an ethical conduct code based in the “principles of fidelity and respect for the dignity, worth, and self- ...

Personal code of ethics examples. I will treat others as I wish to be treated. I will dedicate myself to acting courteously in my day-to-day interactions with others, despite my mood or current life situation. It is important to me to have a positive impact on the people I come into contact with.

Nurses are advocates for patients and must find a balance while delivering patient care. There are four main principles of ethics: autonomy, beneficence, justice, and non-maleficence. Each patient has the right to make their own decisions based on their own beliefs and values.

Although there are many ethical principles that guide nursing practice, foundational ethical principles include respect for autonomy (self-determination), beneficence (do good), nonmaleficence (do no harm), justice (fairness), fidelity (keep promises), and veracity (tell the truth).

Nurses have four fundamental responsibilities: to promote health, to prevent illness, to restore health and to alleviate suffering. The need for nursing is universal. Inherent in nursing is a respect for human rights, including cultural rights, the right to life and choice, to dignity and to be treated with respect.

Provision 5

The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to promote health and safety, preserve wholeness of character and integrity, maintain competence, and continue personal and professional growth.