Be a Client Advocate!

Nursing Ethics

by: Xandy Jaraba

The healthcare team is subject to legal, moral, and professional obligations which can be very challenging.   These obligations are generally considered very important responsibility of the health care team to give what is due to all patients.   As a nurse leader, your obligations are always professional; however there are legal significance if these obligations are breached.   You must also consider not abusing these obligations. Because, moral issues can occur such as  breached of confidentiality. Yet other instances breaching the guidelines is inevitable in order to produce good and quality outcomes of care. And is therefore can be justified.Can end really justify the means? Now here comes our ethics.

Ethics is concerned with the principles and right conduct as they apply to the nursing profession. It reinforces the nurses’ ideals and motives in order to maximize the reflectivity of their service. In other words, it is a set of moral and practical guidelines that affects your decision making whether big or small.

Full disclosure enables the doctor and nurse to identify conditions properly and to treat the patient properly. In return for the individual's loyalty, the doctor and nurse usually should not reveal private marketing and sales communications or details without the individual's show approval. However, there are certain exclusions to the rule. This will be done if an individual attempts suicidal, is a national threat, has a grave and communicable disease and is required by law.

Despite these moral and lawful responsibilities, entry to private individual details has become more frequent. Electronic wellness computer allow increased accessibility and transmission to personal data.  The health care team in incorporated distribution techniques or networks now has entry to the private details of all the sufferers within their system or network. Confidential details also are published through scientific databases and distributed directories. Discussing these details allows the patient to be treated more efficiently and securely. The challenge for physicians is to use this technology, while remembering and improving individual secrecy.

Your primary concern is to be a client advocate.   A client advocate is the one who provides and defends the cause of another.  In the nursing profession, you have to secure your client's rights.   A client's rights can vary from being responsible for their own health care and decision making based on trust and respect, to the benefit of the professionals being responsible to make sure that the individual has all equal health care services at their hands to get their needs met.

You must be fully aware of the moral and rights of clients to self-determination. You must ensure that clients understand their therapies and effects of any therapies they are going through.   A good professional must be an effective customer by showing assertiveness; and understanding the rights and principles of every client.

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Nursing ethics & Jurisprudence NF Cañizares, RN, MAN

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