Examples Of Obstacles Facing Nurses In Applying Professional Ethics

Obstacles that face nurses in applying professional ethics

1- Managerial Barriers:

Managerial barriers were evolving around the issues including Labor shortage, long working hours, unsuitable working shift, lack of comers training courses and On-the-Job training courses about ethical issues and inefficiency of learned ethical educations during academic courses. Most nurses believed that one of the major and basic nursing problems is the lack of personnel and human labor: “how do you expect with the increasing number of clients and fixed number of nursing staff. These codes might be efficient in private hospitals but not here in public hospitals( Imanzadeh,2016).

Qamari Zare & Barmi, ,(2014) study which considered the lack of working labor as a major barrier of nursing ethical codes’ compliance. Another study revealed that the staff shortage and long working hours as two barriers despite the common perception, ethical behavior is a very professional matter among nurses, yet some issues might result a nurse would not meet the ethical requirements as she or he ought to. High working pressure and shortage of professional staff is naturally results in to lowering the quality of ethical code compliance ( Imanzadeh ,2016).

Health care institutions can overcome the shortage of personnel and
Hospital’s management should hold such courses for new comers and as in-the-job training courses with special privileges for nurses. Many nurses have just heard about these ethical codes and have no further knowledge. Deficiencies in curriculum, inadequate teaching methods and theoretical trainings are barriers to professional qualifications. Therefore, in addition to making the ethical concepts more practical, continues attention should be paid to professional ethics