Question

define integrity as it relates to nursing. Can personal and professional integrity be separated? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Integrity means quality of being honest with strong moral priniples..As a nurse we have to be kind,honest and ethical and not doing any harm to our patients..These values provide the best quality of care and good integrity practice..
Yes, personal and professional integrity having many different contexts..in nursing some situation we are not practicing with integrity..To provide nursing care with full integrity nurse to become part of the patient's environment..Nurses skills,education and caring help the patient to cross their illness while seeing thepatient in their intirety..some theory shows important of integrity among nurses and different aspects of integrity..
   There are three components of integrity like self,personal identity and moral..integrity is a complex set of values having relational framework of values to communities and individuals..value we can say as a importance..Value take us for decision making,how to live our lives and shape of consciousness,virtue is a moral excellence,goodness,rightousness..
Integrity has different values,it will not fear the respect for life,integrity,well-being..Personal integrity is a core values for delivery ethical health care..compromise must in health care..when moral complexity in the professional environment..it is important that nurses must work with integrity to patients to promote optimal nurse-patient relationship..integrity encompasses different aspects of one's being because it is very difficult to seperate one aspect of integrity..
   Personal integrity while comprising another type,professional integrity serve as areas of further research..example:-in some situation nurses are out of work while choosing the flu vaccine for them..But while seeing personal integrity,they uphold their professional integrity by refusing the vaccine and making the patient's at risk..