This is a theoretical approach which assumes that the nurse will base all treatment decisions on an interest in achieving the patient's best overall health outcome. In light of this, there may be great value in approaching treatment with a cultural sensitivity to the diversity of needs which accompany the inherent diversity of individuals to be treated. Here, the healthcare practitioner must be particular immune to prejudices of an ethnic, racial, sexual or personal nature, with equal treatment quality and personal attention expected for all patrons of the medical system. This is why it is important for members of the healthcare community to be acquainted not just with the idea of a multitude of groups in its public, but with some level of understanding as to how different ethnic groups endure different health scenarios. The way that the nursing professional approaches healing -- with respect to the balance of personal interaction, pharmaceutical treatment, mental health counseling, etc. -- is likely to be influenced at least in part by the cultural particulars of the patient.
Ethical consideration demands that the nurse practitioner engage all necessary effort in order to ensure that the patient receives the highest level of treatment and personal attention in light of these distinct cultural needs. Ethical nursing recognizes that healthcare is most essentially a human process, and that the interactants will be impacted in their treatment outcomes by sometimes highly emotional factors. It...
This affords me a focus on the optimism, hope and faith that can be instrumental for the patient. Indeed, these sentiments translate to a compassion and an attentiveness to individual needs that patients can genuinely feel. This, in turn, will often have a consequence of improving the psychological conditions of engaging the healthcare system. In my experience and according to extensive empirical research, these psychological conditions can be directly connected to positive health outcomes. Therefore, I come to view it as my ethical duty to channel my own sense of spirituality into the demeanor and disposition that is most beneficial to my patients.
This means that proper bedside manner and effective emotional engagement of the patient are relevant to the task of ensuring an overarching wellness. This underscores my belief that ethics will constitute an absolutely indispensable feature for all aspects of care. For the nurse and for the facility in general, ethical competency will prefigure competency in all other areas of treatment and in the realization of positive patient outcomes.
Works Cited:
ANA. (2004). The Nurses Code of Ethics. The Center for Ethics and Human Rights.
President's Council on Bioethics (PCB). (2010). Being Human: Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics-Chapter 3: To Heal Sometimes, To Comfort Always. Georgetown University.
