Question

Apply the framework of The Five R’s approach to ethical nursing practice from this week's reading to answer the questions about values and choices.

What are values?

Q. What are your personal values?

Q. Why do you value them?

Q. What are the values in your society?

Q. How do you make choices?

Q. Are your choices based on your values?

Q. What values are useful in society?

Answer 1

Nursing ethics is a branch of philosophy dealing with values pertaining to human conduct, considering the rightness and wrongness of actions and the goodness or badness of the motives and ends of such actions.

5 R's IN NURSING ETHICS: The 5 R's in nursing ethics is to promote healthin expected and unexpected life events. They includes a) Respect b) Recognition c) Resources d) Responsibility and e) Results.

#1. My personal values include a) human diginity b) kindness c) sympathy d) altruism e) responsibility f) commitment g) justice h) honesty and finally i) personal and professional competency.

#2. Nursing ethics should be valued for the following a) respect patients b) maintain patient's diginity and c) to protect patient's rights.

#3. The values of society includes a) future generations b) environmental awareness c) ecology and d) sustainability.

#4. Nurses have probably always known that their decisions have important implications for patient outcomes. They probably make choices through decision making and based on the informations.

#5. Making value based choices is always not easy. At this time check for top priority values and approach with confidence and clarity.

#6. Values are important because they help us to grow and develop. Societal values are our personal beliefs about what is important, unimportant, right,wrong,good or bad.