Ethical decision-making: exploring the four main principles in nursing.

Dunn, Hannah (2024) Ethical decision-making: exploring the four main principles in nursing. Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987). ISSN 2047-9018

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Abstract

Nurses are regularly confronted with moral questions and ethical dilemmas in their practice, for example where a patient's decisions about their treatment conflict with the nurse's own views. While the standards contained in the Nursing and Midwifery Council The Code: Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nurses, Midwives and Nursing Associates provide nurses with an overarching framework to guide practice, it is important that nurses understand the four main principles that underpin ethical care - autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. This article examines these four principles and how they relate to nurses' ethical decision-making. The author also explores how nurses' ethics were tested by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Having an awareness of ethical decision-making can enhance nurses' practice by providing them with a theoretical framework for treating patients with dignity and respect. [Abstract copyright: © 2024 RCN Publishing Company Ltd. All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers.]

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	** From PubMed via Jisc Publications Router ** History: accepted 14-05-2024.
Keywords:	consent, duty of care, professional standards, professional issues, ethical practice, professional, ethical issues, The Code, professional regulation, informed consent
SWORD Depositor:	JISC Router
Depositing User:	JISC Router
Date Deposited:	05 Aug 2024 12:37
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2024 12:37
URI:	https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/19138

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