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Essay / Ethics and the impact of personal ethics in the workplace
Take care of every patient with the same treatment consisting of respect and dignity, regardless of their origin or socio-economic background. Therefore, it is about maintaining their individual rights at the highest possible level. As a nurse, I am committed to the patients I care for. Aim to enable everyone to succeed in their journey to becoming as healthy as possible. One example that comes to mind is from when I worked in the intensive care unit (ICU). While receiving the departing nurse's report, I was told more about the patient's socioeconomic status, her smell, and the fact that the staff had put her in the room farthest from the nurses' station due to its smell of cat urine and cigarette smoke. The nurse stated that she only examined the patient once during his stay on the unit and that the patient was not really ill. After completing the report, I assessed and monitored the patient every hour, as I would any other patient in the ICU. The patient eventually suffered hypovolemic shock and had to be transferred to a larger hospital. If I had only checked on the patient every four hours, as was the minimum for the unit, there is a good chance this patient would have died. Thanks to my ethics, values and morals, the patient survived the night and was able to return to her family later in the same period.