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Nursing ethics is a system of principles that governs nurses' conduct in their relationships with patients, patients' families, other nurses, and society. It focuses on patient autonomy and collaborative care rather than solely medical treatment. Morality refers to a system of values and standards of right and wrong that may be based on a religion, philosophy, or universal beliefs, and determines whether actions are moral or immoral. Nursing ethics evaluates nurses' intentional actions and responsibilities to patients according to moral standards.

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NURSING ETHICS Powerpoint

Nursing ethics is a system of principles that governs nurses' conduct in their relationships with patients, patients' families, other nurses, and society. It focuses on patient autonomy and collaborative care rather than solely medical treatment. Morality refers to a system of values and standards of right and wrong that may be based on a religion, philosophy, or universal beliefs, and determines whether actions are moral or immoral. Nursing ethics evaluates nurses' intentional actions and responsibilities to patients according to moral standards.

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NURSING

ETHICS
NURSING ETHICS
• Is a system of different principles governing the conduct of a nurse. It
deals with the relationship of the nurse to the patient, patient’s
family, associates and fellow nurses and society at large.
• It shares many similarities with medical ethics of both maybe lumped
under the umbrella of Biomedical ethics.
• Patients have the right to bodily autonomy as much as possible, thus
it is centered on the idea that nursing is a collaborative occupation.
• CARING not CURING is sometimes used to describe nursing, with the
idea that the nurse can’t focus on medical treatment and ignore the
needs of the patient.
MORALITY
Is a system of values and principles of conduct, especially one
held by a specified person or society. It is the extent to which an action
is right or wrong. It can be a body of standards or principles derived
from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion and
culture or can derive from a standard that a person believes should be
universal. Morality does not need justification for its being
• HUMAN ACTS- are action performed by human knowingly and freely.
It is also called intentional or deliberate actions or voluntary.

• ACT of MAN- in contrary to human acts it is involuntary, instinctive


and unintentional.

• DEBATABLE ISSUES- act of man for example, can be considered


human act if the action is carried out with malice.

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