NUR 674 Topic 11: Communication and Ethics
NUR 674 Topic 11: Communication and Ethics
NUR 674 Topic 11 Communication and Ethics
One of the key responsibilities of a nurse leader is to maintain the highest ethical standards in the organization and ensure they are adhered to during the decision-making process. Principles of ethical behavior identified in the nurse leader’s role include beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for individuals, veracity, justice, and fidelity (El-Gazar & Zoromba, 2021). The nurse leader has to consider each of these principles when balancing the needs of patient safety and nurses’ rights during workplace conflict. Ethical behavior is an integral part of a nurse leader since the leader is expected to model and support ethical performance.
On top of that, the nurse leader is expected to be sensitive to moral issues and improve nurses’ work performance by fostering respect for human dignity in nursing care. Nurse leaders increase nurses’ capacity to discuss and implement the ethical principle in daily nursing activities, supporting nurses’ ethical competence (El-Gazar & Zoromba, 2021). Furthermore, ethics is a vital component of leadership qualifications. An ethical nurse leader can help create an ethical atmosphere in the workplace, offer guidance on ethics, and ensure nurses’ occupational satisfaction by prioritizing moralities.
Provision 6 of the ANA Code of Ethics states that: “The nurse, through individual and collective effort, establishes, maintains, and improves the ethical environment of the work setting and conditions of employment that are conducive to safe, quality health care.” The characteristics of a nurse leader role model can be communicated with this provision by evaluating the interventions that the leader implements to promote an ethical environment in the workplace (Varkey, 2021). Besides, one can communicate a role model’s characteristics by demonstrating virtues that surpass what is expected of everyone, including wisdom, honesty, knowledge, skill, compassion, patience, selflessness, and courage. The nurse leader should take pride in having these virtues and strive to create and maintain morally good environments (Varkey, 2021). Furthermore, the nurse leader should turn these virtues into action by implementing what is right for their patients and the workplace.
Ethics significantly influence the nurse leader’s leadership style. Ethically fit nurse leaders with the ethical control to do what is right when facing barriers, obstacles, and limited power and who demonstrate ethical behavior regardless of personal and professional risk, are respected, celebrated, and followed (Barkhordari-Sharifabad et al., 2018). Besides, nurse leaders who learn and apply the code of ethics in clinical practice may better influence the moral decisions of those with authority to make decisions.
References
Barkhordari-Sharifabad, M., Ashktorab, T., & Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, F. (2018). Obstacles and problems of ethical leadership from the perspective of nursing leaders: a qualitative content analysis. Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine, 10, 1.
El-Gazar, H. E., & Zoromba, M. A. (2021). Ethical Leadership, Flourishing, and Extra-Role Behavior Among Nurses. SAGE Open Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1177/23779608211062669
Varkey, B. (2021). Principles of Clinical Ethics and Their Application to Practice. Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre, 30(1), 17–28. https://doi.org/10.1159/000509119
Objectives:
Describe how nursing ethics are an integral part of leadership.1.
Articulate the relationship between ethics and the leadership style of the nurse leader.2.
Resources
ANA Code of Ethics
Review the content in “Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements,” by the American Nurses
Association (ANA) (2015), located on the ANA website.
http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/EthicsStandards/CodeofEthicsforNurses/Code-of-Ethics- For-Nurses.html Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators.
Read Chapter 15 in Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators.
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