Nursing 4320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Nurses Association, China National Space Administration, Neurology
20 Mar 2019
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Week 1: professional, ethical and legal obligations in nursing: a critical appraisal. Experts: professions have guidelines, standards, experts have training, knowledge expertise in their field but they may not be professionals if they are not regulated, have guidelines, standards, self regulated. Phases of socialization: career choice, anticipatory socialization, conditioning and committing, continuous commitment. What is ethics: the philosophical study of morality, systematic exploration of what is morally right and wrong. It helps nurses uncover to what extent a problem is an ethical one. It enables practitioners to develop skills and tools to tackle ethical/philosophical questions. It helps nurses develop the soundness of their ethical values and beliefs. Involves cognitive and psychosocial processes: requires support from family, friends, coworkers and government systems https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=2d-k2twzwr8. Nursing, the law and ethics: nursing has evolved into an autonomous profession, resulting in increasingly complex ethical challenges for nurses within the context of more sophisticated and collaborative.
