My Cultural Values In My Nursing Career

Person cultural values have always been the driving force on how I make my decisions in life. It also serves as a vital role in my nursing career by helping decide and overcome the challenges I often face as a nurse. Since I was a child, my parents has imbedded their cultural values in me. They have always taught me to care and respect other human beings. My personal values that my religion since I was a child has always taught me to treat others with honesty and dignity, which I have always treated my patients with throughout my nursing career. My Buhhdist beliefs teaches me to do the right course of actions, right efforts, and good intention toward others. I believe that whatever I put out in life, will eventually return to me, therefore
In my nursing practice, the most important values are respect, human dignity, and honesty. I think those are the fundamental foundations that human should have between each others. Showing respect to patients tell them that they are important in the process of healing. It also gives them peace of mind that I am here for them with intention to help them recover. Honesty is important in building a trusting relationship with my patients. I always tell my patients the truth, regardless if it is good or bad, because I believe that shows them that I respect them and treat them with dignity that they deserve.
Morals is a person’s belief in what is good or bad. It vary from person to person base on beliefs, values and experience in life. Their values help them distinguish from what is right or wrong. The ability to distinguish what is right or wrong enable me to provide appropriate and best for my patients in the best of my ability. Fortunately for many nurses and myself, we follow the code of ethics create by American nurses association that we practice by, which let us make similar judgment that is up to standard and have similar thought on
Normally, for a patient with low hemoglobin, transfusion is a must without second thoughts about it. However, knowing this patients religious beliefs, I knew transfusion will never take place. The only thing I did was to confirm with the patient about his religious beliefs and practice regarding not receiving blood. The patient eventually past away under my care, where I knew that I did the best and showed the patient respect by not forcing him to go against his religious beliefs. Knowing I did the best I could, I overcame the feeling of guilt; however, it still did not feel good, knowing that interventions could have taken place to safe a human