Question

Compare the Code of Ethics for Nurses and the Public Health Code of Ethics. How do they compare regarding individuals versus groups, confidentiality, personal values, and advocacy?

Answer 1

Code of ethics for public health made for population and community to serve them in institutions...

Code of ethics for nurses made for nurses ro provide their client with the high -quality care..it was adopted by the international council of nurses(INC)

But public health adopted by American public health association(APHA)..it reviews the codes and get feedback on it..

Codes of ethics for nurses approved by the health policy council of the ministry of health.medical education and communicated to all universities,health care centers,hospitals and research centers early in 2011..

Code of ethics of public health approved by institutional policies,working group and communities..

individual vs group

patients are not considered as only people it also include family and healthy people in the society iI the plans and services in nurses ethics..And the code is that the individual dignity should be respected ,the patient who receiving the care from particular nationality,ethnicity,religion,culture,socio economic class,gender,etc .nurses should be sensitive to the ethical challenges and do their best to fulfil their moral duties..

But public health is concerned more with populations(group) than with individual,and more with prevention than cure.. populations and communities the ideal of the public health to serve them..

confidentiality:

public health programs and policies important to respect the values,beliefs and culture in the community public health institutions should protect the confidentially of information to prevent harm to community or individual if made public..

Codes of ethics for nurses should respect ethical challenges to do best in their duties..it is important informed consent is an main ethical issues in every day practice like respect to privacy and confidentiality of patient,relationship with colleagues,efficient performance of the professional duties,conflicts of interest,ethics in educational activities and protection of participants in research..

Personal values:

.public health is respect the rights of individual in the community..it includes privacy,confidentiality and autonomy.A recognition of interdependence provides correction to an overly individualistic perspective that is inconsistent with public health concern with whole communities and population..

Ethical values for nurses in personal evaluate their goals,strategies and function.values conduct human life priorities..this values originate from cultural environment,social group,religion,lived experience and the past...social,cultural,religious,political and economic consideration influence individual and their values system and also health,education,social stategies and patient care important for nurses personal values..

Advocacy:

In codes of ethics for nurses involves giving information to client they need to make decisions and then supporting those decisions..it also involves that nurses must understand patient point of view..

Public health adoption by organization will improve the code with the degree of moral autjorityacan increase the utility by adopted and used by national,state and local institutions..An important values of health is to advocate for disenfranchised,underserved and vulnerable population..so it is responsible for public health to make improvement in community for implement policy to vulnerable population,by respecting their values,beliefs and cultures in a community..