Best practice: Live and practice ethically
HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, June 2, 2009
Promoting a professional image of nursing means incorporating ethics into everyday practice. Help staff nurses focus on their ethical image by having them practice the following seven standards:
- Embrace racial, cultural, and creative diversity
- Tame the blame-assigning blame is destructive, so switch to problem solving
- Maintain confidentiality
- Don't confuse cutting corners with efficiency
- Practice patient understanding and empathy without judging too quickly
- Talk with people, not at them or about them
- Eliminate offensive words and comments from your vocabulary-they are degrading, unethical, and could have legal repercussions
Source: Adapted from HCPro's book Our Image, Our Choice: Perspectives on Shaping, Empowering, and Elevating the Nursing Profession.
Editor's note: Do you have a best practice you would like to share? E-mail them to senior managing editor Rebecca Hendren at rhendren@hcpro.com and see your name in print!
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