Understanding Ethical Principles

Ethics in Healthcare

• Why is it important to devote time to ethical decision-making? 
• Are nurses by virtue of their medical profession, moral and ethical human beings? 
• Don’t everyone should approach their work with the intention of doing good?

Ethical Dimensions

• Consider how the reigning culture of an organization can affect the ethical conduct of that organization.  
• Consider the role of ethics committees in reviewing controversial cases.
• And we will consider the role of advanced practice nurses as change makers in any healthcare setting and the leadership role they play in forming sound ethical protocols and policies at the organizational level

What Expands our Ethical Framework

• We study ethics to aid us in making sound judgments good decisions, and right choices
• Ethics signifies a general moral pattern or way of life.  It is a set of rules, of conduct or “moral code” which also involves professional ethics
• As we develop our careers through the pursuit of higher education