Ethical Principles In Health Care

Ethical Principles Within the healthcare field, a worker will have to make some ethical decisions. These decisions may be easy, but most will be hard to make. There are certain code of ethics a healthcare worker needs to follow in order to create the best work environment for them and for the patients. These are set so that everyone has an equal understanding of the ethics. One example from the code of ethics is, “the health care worker provides adequate and continuous care for all patients regardless of age, gender, race or nature of the illness or injury” meaning that everyone is treated equal (Gerdin 50). It also means that no matter how or what the patient wants to be treated the healthcare worker has to confine to these requests. For example, if the patient got an abortion and now they have bleeding and are in the hospital, the healthcare worker needs to give them proper treatment no matter if they agree with abortion or not. This healthcare …show more content…
In the cancer center, the nurse meet different patients and treated them all the same despite age, gender or race. He would talk the same to each person, give them all great advice and answered all of their questions. This was also demonstrated in medical surgery three. Here the nurse gave people their medications no matter what. She treated everyone with respect and always had a smile on her face. Even when she changed the diaper of a patient, she did not say anything about the smell or how gross that was. She did her job well. They all were very ethical. All healthcare professionals are faced with ethical decisions. One code of ethics basically states treat everyone the same regardless of their age, gender, race, or nature of the illness or injury. This is important because everyone deserves to have the best outcome. This code is closely related to healthcare workers because they deal with the patients