NURSING 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Professional Responsibility, Normative Ethics, Moral Agency
16 Dec 2017
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Nursing is a profession as it provides a service to society and is self-governing, and its members are accountable for their actions. Have code of ethics that provide essential elements of their promises of service to society. Morally accountable for practicing according to their discipline"s implicit or explicit code of ethics. Professional has the knowledge and skills to meet an individual"s needs or the needs of a group. Potential recipients of services lack the knowledge or ability to anticipate or meet their own needs but trust that the professional will keep their best interests as their primary goal to meet their needs. Examples of normative ethics in that they prescribe how members of a profession ought to act, given the goals and purposes of the profession related to individuals and society. Makes explicit the primary goals, values and obligations of the profession.
