CODE OF ETHICS

The study of what is right and wrong in human

behaviour
नीतिशास्त्र, मानवीय व्यवहार में उचित-अनुचित की मीमांसा

Beliefs about what is morally correct or acceptable

उचित-अनुचित का विचार

The medical profession has its own code of ethics.

 INTRODUCTION
 Ethics includes personal behaviour and issues of
character. e.g kindness, tolerance,generosity.

It derived from the GREEK word “ETHOS

meaning custom or character. It defined by
bernard harding “it comprises distinction
attitudes, which characterise the cultural outlook
of professional group. It distinction between
right and wrong based on a body knowledge.
 PURPOSES
 Provide general guidelines.
 It helps to destinguish between right and
wrong.
 Enables a correct decision and a uniform
decision within the groups.
 Helps to protect rights of individuals, families,
and community, nuures.
 ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

RESPECT AND
BENEFICENCE JUSTICE
AUTONOMY

VERACITY FIDELITY
 RESPECT AND AUTONOMY
 RESPECT : level for understanding of another
person or empathy and reducing exploitation .

 AUTONOMY: person independence,self

determing action allow the action allow the
patient to make decision.
 BENEFICENCE
 Activity seeking benefits,promotion of good.
 The duty to do balance between benefits and
harm.
 The health care provider decides what is best
for the client and attempt to encourage the
clients to act against his or her own choices.
 CONFIDENTIALITY

Confidentiality relates to the concept of privacy

Information obtained from an individual will not
be disclosed to another unless it will benefit the
person or there is a direct threat to the social
good.
 DOUBLE EFFECT
 This is a principle that may morally justify
some actions that produce both good and evil
effects.
 FIDELITY

 Fidelity is promise keeping the duty to be

faithful to one's commitments. It includes both
explicit and implicit promises to another
person
 JUSTICE
 Each person has equal rights to the liberty
available to everyone.
 NONMALEFICENCE
 This is the duty not to inflict harm as well as to
prevent and remove harm. Nonmaleficence
may be included within the principle of
beneficence, in which case nonmaleficence
would be more binding.
 PATERNALISM
Paternalism is the intentional limitation of
another's autonomy. Justified by an appeal to
beneficence or the welfare or needs of another
 RESPECT FOR PERSONS

 Respect for person is frequently used

synonymously with autonomy, However, it
goes beyond accepting the notion or attitude
that people have autonomous choice to treating
others in such a way that enables them to make
the choice.
 SANCTITY OF LIFE

 This is the perspective that life is the highest

good. Therefore, all forms of life, including
mere biologic existence, should take
precedence over external criteria for judging
quality of life.
  
 VERACITY
 The obligation to tell the truth.
INTERNATIONAL CODE OF NURSING
ETHICS
 The fundamental responsibility of the nurse is
four fold that is :
- to promote health
- to prevent illness
- to restore health
- to alleviate sufferings.
 Code of Ethics
 A code of ethics is a set of ethical principles
that are accepted by all members of a
profession.

 Ethics refers to the expected standards of

behaviour of a particular group. these
standards are described in the groups’ code of
professional conduct. Nurses are expected to
maintain certain ethical standards in their
nursing practice.
 THE BODY OF CODE IS DIVEDED INTO 5
SECTIONS.

NURSES NURSES NURSES

AND AND AND
PEOPLE PRACTICE PROFESSION

NURSES NURSES
AND CO- AND
WORKER SOCIETY
 NURSES AND PEOPLE
To serve people requiring nursing care

To respect as person’s value, customs and

religious beliefs.

All information to the nurse must be held in

confidence or shared only with careful judgment.
 NURSE AND PRACTICE
 The nurse carries personal responsibility and
accountability for nursing practice and for
maintaining competence by continual learning.
 The nurse maintains a standard of personal
health such that the ability to provide care is
not compromised.
 The nurse in providing care,ensures the use of
technology and scientific advances are
compatible with the safety,dignity,and rights of
people.
 NURSE AND PROFESSION
 The nurse assumes the major role in
determining and implementing acceptable
standard of clinical nursing
practice,management,research and education.
 The nurse acting through the professional
organization ,participates in creating and
maintain sale, equitable social and economic
working conditions in nursing.
 NURSES AND CO-WORKER
 The nurse sustain a co-operative relationship
with co-worker in nursing and other fields.
 The nurse takes appropriate action to
safeguard individuals, families and
communities when their health is endangered
by a coworker or any other person.
 NURSE AND SOCIETY
 A nurse should participate and share
responsibilities with other citizens and other
health professionals in promoting effects to
meet the health needs of public
local,state,national,and international.
 She could recognize the perform the duties of
citizenship and be well aware of laws and
regulations which affect the practice of
medicine and nursing.
 CODE OF ETHICS FOR NURSES IN
INDIA
 The nurse respects the uniqueness of
individual in provision of care.
 The nurse respects the rights of individual as
partners in care and help in making informed
choices.
 The nurse respects individual’s right to privacy
maintains confidentiality and share
information judiciously.
 Nursing maintain competence in order to
render quality nursing care.
 The nurse is obliged to practice within
framework of ethical,professional,legal
boundaries.
 Nurse obliged to work harmoniously with
member of the health team.
 Nurse commits to reciprocate the trust invested
in nursing profession by society,
CODES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
FOR NURSES

responsibility and accountability

Communication
Interpersonal relationship practice

Valuing Professional
management
human being advancement
 RESPONSIBILITY AND
ACCOUNTABILITY
 Appreciates sense of self worth and nurtures.
 Maintain standard of personal conduct,
reflecting credit upon the profession.
 Maintaining practice standard
 Accountable for decision and actions.
 Compassionate
 Responsible for continuous improvement of
practice.
 Practices healthful behaviours.
 NURSING PRACTICE
 Provide care in accordance with set standard of
practice.
 Treat all individuals and families with human
dignity in providing
physical,psychological,emotional,social and
spiritual care.
 Promotes participation of individual in care.
 Safe practice.
 COMMUNICATION AND
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
 Establishes and maintaining effective
interpersonal relationship with individual,
families and communities.
 Uphold the dignity of team members.
 Appreciate and nurtures professional role of
team members.
 Cooperate with other health professional to
meet the needs of individual, families and
communities.
 VALUING HUMAN BEING
 Takes appropriate action to protect individuals
from harmful unethical practice.
 Encourage and supports individual in their
right to speak
 Respects and supports choices made by
individual.
 MANAGEMENT
 Appropriate allocation and utilization of
available resources.
 Participation in supervision and education
students.
 Communicates effectively following
appropriate channels of communication.
 Participates in evaluating of nursing services.
 Participates in performance appraisal.
 PROFFESIONAL ADVANCEMENT
 Protection of the human rights
 Contributes to the development of nursing
practice.
 Participating in determining for upholding
own knowledge.
 Contributes to care professional knowledge by
conducting and participating in research.
 ASSRETIVENESS
 It is tool for expressing our selves confidently
and way of saying yes and no in an appropriate
way.
 VISIBILITY
 Meaning
- a quality or fact of, degree of being
visible.
- degree of exposure to public notice.
- capacity of providing a clear an obstructed
view.
the visibility of nursing care can be measured
not only through patient outcome but also by
studying the existing data of patient care
documentation.
The End
 VALUES
 What is Value?
 Value clarification