Problem
1. What do you feel are the most 3 important ethical practices a nurse should have or follow? Why?
2. What is an ethical environment and culture? How can you ensure that you follow and promote an ethical environment or culture in the workplace?
3. Have you ever experienced a situation where you disagreed with a treatment decision due to your values or beliefs, or that your felt was inappropriate or unnecessary? What were your feelings? How did you handle the situation? If not, what would you do when encountering a situation such as this?
4. Provision 8.1 of the Code of Ethics (2015) states that health is a universal right.
a. What is your understanding of this assertion?
b. What is the nurse's role in meeting this obligation?
5. Have you witnessed or encountered an ethical dilemma or unethical nursing practice?
a. What happened? Why or how?
b. What should have been done?
c. How could/can this be prevented from happening in the future?
6. Describe how you will integrate ethics into your everyday nursing practice.