Ethicality In The Nursing Profession

It is this authors belief that the ethicality of nursing is hardly the highest of all professions. Certainly, the arbitrary perception of ethicality in nursing is largely accurate, but it not absolute, and when speaking freely and with an honest tongue, I have trouble declaring the job of a nurse as ethical at all. In fact, much of the care we provide, the actions we take, the lives that we save, occur outside of normal ethical norms, and exsist largely in a vast no man’s land of ethical vacillation. The ethical nature of the nursing profession is an oft debated, frequently quoted expectation, which has exsisted since the art of nursing was first crafted. It is the nurses crusade which stripped the nations of the world of smallpox and rinderpest,

This however offers its own ethical question, the loss of life of a mother was impermissible because we could stop it, but if that is true, then how is palliative care ethical? At the point when nurses acknowledge Do Not Resuscitate orders, when they withdraw care in the case of a patient, who asks us to stop delaying the inevitable, how is that more ethical than refusing the pregnant patient a

Mentioned above is one of countless examples of ethical grey areas where there is no tried and true guidance. Even the supposed standards of which we are directed to adhere are far to broad to be directly useful, and with every new technology, every emerging disease, every changing circumstance the fuzzy logic which determines our ethics is morphed and bent. All we can do is set our moral compass, and follow it. We pray our decisions are the best they can be, and it is only in the greyest fight when our compass is tested, that we truly know if we know what right is from wrong, especially when a situation exists in a superposition thereof. It is for those reasons, that I am materially unable to deem nursing the most ethical career, as to do so would be a vain attempt to quantify the