Question

Describe three ethical values or codes that you deem to be of high importance to you in a current or future role in human services. Select a vignette from the section on confidentiality and propose a possible solution based upon the values and professional ethical standards you have described.Describe three ethical values or codes that you deem to be of high importance to you in a current or future role in human services. Select a vignette from the section on confidentiality and propose a possible solution based upon the values and professional ethical standards you have described.

Answer 1

For a role of nursing, there important ethical values are
1-Human dignity or humanitarian values are those values where human relations and the humanity is kept at highest priority. Treating the patient with love and care, respecting their rights etc are some of these values.

2-privacy- A nurse is the one wh knows all the details of patients including those which are known only to the person and not even his parents and other family members. If this privacy is not kept confidential, it may lead to erosion of trust of patients and in future they may not provide the accurate information that may lead to compromised healthcare intervention.

3-precision accuracy in caring, The role of nursing involves injecting and orally giving critical medicines whose dose are prescribed precisely. Any compromise on this may lead to hazardous effect , even in death of patient.

Confidentiality vignette of keeping the patient info confidential poses problems most of the times for nurses. A nurse has to keep in mind the the values of human dignity and privacy to keep the human rights and their privacies a top. It is also necessary for the profession and not only for the patient.