Ethical Principles
From the outset of my nursing education up until the present moment, my personal nursing view point and thinking has incessantly advanced, become fortified, and fully-fledged. The four moral principles that consist of justice, autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence continue to be the basis of my understanding and practice in nursing. Beneficence helps me to understand that nursing care is purposed to benefit the patient and therefore I ought to do all I can to aid the patient at all times. Similarly, the principle of non-maleficence constantly reminds me to undertake beneficial actions to the patient and avoid the harmful ones. Throughout the RN-BSN program at West Coast University, I have shown my level of competencies in key areas. As I develop and advance my career, I constantly try to link the theoretical nursing aspects to the practical ones.
While writing my paper on virtue ethics, I ascertained that “morally virtuous person is one who does the good and right thing by habit, not merely based on a set of rules of conduct” (Tabufor, 2017a). The meaning of virtue ethics in healthcare became more apparent in grasping that the beliefs of a nurse has to be moral but at the same time has to be in tandem with the guidelines...
References
Arries, E. (2005). Virtue ethics: an approach to moral dilemmas in nursing. Curationis, 28(3), 64-72.
Tabufor, E. (2017a). Virtue Ethics. Paper Submitted to West Coast University.
Tabufor, E. (2017b). Technology in Healthcare. Paper Submitted to West Coast University
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