...Running head: MY MORAL COMPASS My Moral Compass My Moral Compass Our deepest and enduring sense of identity comes from realizing our connection to the larger world (Bloom, n.d.). Morality directs life’s journey; it is the basis of all decisions, attitudes, and goals. The process of being moral is developed from personal experiences and parental guidance. One set of values may differ from another, but neither is wrong. The Code of Ethics designed by the American Nurse’s Association (ANA) in 2001, is the framework for ethical practice and personal moral beliefs in nursing. The moral compass is the key component to ethical decision making and practice as defined by ANA. Nurses use a moral compass to guide them in ethically caring for patients. Each compass is unique and carries with it a specific set of values. Personal, cultural, and spiritual values influence nursing care and create a professional moral compass. Two values that contribute to my professional self identity are justice and compassion. Judicial treatment in the American healthcare system is easier to obtain than in some other countries. However, the incorporation of insurance companies can make obtaining ethical care more challenging. The insurance based health system is directed and influenced by money, making the majority of a patient’s care based on approval or denial of claims to maintain health. It is difficult as a nurse to deliver adequate care at times when better care could be given. For example...
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...Ethics: HIV/AIDS Name Institutional Affiliation Date HIV/AIDS for over three decades has been a global epidemic affecting all races, genders and ages. The prevalence of the calamity has not been limited by any borders as it has traversed the entire world to emerge as a global threat. Despite the emergence of other health epidemics such as Ebola and lately the Zika virus, HIV has remained not only as a giant slayer but also as a multitude slayer killing millions of victims since its inception into the earth’s surface. HIV is categorised as a virus, and it attacks the human immune system thus decreasing the ability of the human body to fight diseases while suppressing the multiplication of unwanted or dangerous cells such as cancer cells (Stolley & Glass, 2009). The origin of HIV/AIDS nonetheless is not without controversies with various theories as to how the condition emerged in existence. Despite the existence of the many controversies, there is the wider belief that HIV has its origins in the nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo specifically in Kinshasa around the 1920s. The most common answer to the origin of HIV/AIDS by scientists is that it originated from primates of a non-human kind in the form of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Africa (Crawford, 2013). While it is believed that the virus had other sub-groups that equally gained human infectivity, the prevalent global catastrophe is associated a particular strain which is the HIV-1 that emerged in...
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...A professional moral compass is something everyone has and lives by. In the nursing practice, an individual’s personal, cultural, and spiritual values contribute to their worldview and philosophy of nursing. One’s personal values, philosophy, and worldview may conflict with his or her obligation to practice, creating an ethical dilemma. In addition, personal values in regard to the morals and ethical dilemmas faced in the health care field affect behavior and decision making. My personal, cultural, and spiritual beliefs all revolve around my origin. I was born and raised in India and it was drilled into me that I should give it my best in everything. As I grew up and went to nursing school this was my main motivation and inspiration. Now in the U.S. practicing nursing, I have made it a point to give it my all when caring for patients and families. Other values that contribute to my worldview and philosophy of nursing are integrity and responsibility. I try to be consistent with my actions, methods, principles, and expectations. Also, I have learned to take responsibility for everything I say and do. Although it can be hard to take the blame, I have understood that taking responsibility makes us work harder and helps us better attain our goals. These values have influenced my nursing practice in that when I care for a patient, I try to give the same quality of care I would want if I was in their place. Also, respect is an underrated discipline and showing respect to patients and...
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...Professional Moral Compass Ida Carpenter RN Grand Canyon University August 20, 2012 Ethics is defined as the study of good conduct, character, and purposes. It is concerned with determining what is good or important for all people (Potter & Perry, 2001). I struggle daily with ethics when I am faced with making decisions for one or more of my residents. It is not easy keeping your own feelings or religious beliefs out of decision making. I must practice my ethical behavior each day, by basing my decisions on what is right/fair for the resident. Value is defined as a personal belief about the worth of a given idea, attitude, custom or object that sets standards that influence behavior (Norwood, 2009). My family was raised with multiple values, and the one that always stands out to me is “treat people the way you would want them to treat you.” I live by that same standard every day, as well as pass it along to my children. Morals is defined as of or relating to principles or distinguishing between right and wrong behavior (Webster’s Dictionary, 2003). Throughout my life and the life of my children’s, I continue to instill the Ten Commandments. I always tell my children and myself often that if we follow these steps we could never be accused of wrong doing. I am faced with a battle on a day to day basis when it comes to caring and making sound decisions for my residents. Remembering not to go by my emotions, but to make judgments by asking myself what is best for...
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...The Moral Compass Essay is BRIEF SYNOPSIS of your personal moral compass based on your completed Moral Compass Workbook. It should be written in your own words in the first person narrative voice. SUGGESTED OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS FOR YOUR ESSAY YOUR PERSONAL INTEGRITY: What is your understanding of a moral compass as a foundation for personal integrity? From which Wisdom Tradition(s) do you draw in constructing your moral compass? What do you value and question about this Wisdom Tradition? • MORAL VISION: What is your vision of a good life? What values anchor your moral vision? What symbol, song, image, or story motivates and inspires your moral vision? How does your Wisdom Tradition influence your moral vision? • MORAL CODE: What are the rules or principles of your moral code? How does your moral code align with your moral vision? How does your Wisdom Tradition influence your moral code? • MORAL FITNESS: What practices constitute your moral fitness regimen? How do you use these practices to cultivate personal character and integrity? How do these practices align with and reinforce your moral vision and code. How does your Wisdom Tradition influence your moral code? • DEFINING MOMENT: What moral challenge has been a key defining moment for you? How has this challenge tested, clarified, and defined your character and values. If you could, how would you rewrite the script for this event in your life? Why? How does your Wisdom Tradition influence your moral understanding...
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...Numerous moral issues challenge us every day. Resolving these issues may lead to the neglecting of right from wrong, which is our moral compass. The moral compass helps maintain our humanity. Knowledge of the moral compass is one thing but applying it is another. The lack of utilizing the moral compass alters political decisions, science improvements, and the management of issues. Many political decisions are done for right reasons but have long-term effects. The event of 6 August 1945 shows us a way the United States mismanaged their moral compass. The United States made a decision to drop an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima to end World War II. The outcome of this killed seventy to eighty thousand people and another seventy thousand injured....
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...Running head: MY PROFESSIONAL MORAL COMPASS My Professional Moral Compass Pamela Chesnut Grand Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care NRS 437V July 26, 2012 My Professional Moral Compass A professional moral compass is something everyone has and lives by. It helps assist in making decisions and is based on morals or virtues. My personal moral compass is directed by various inspirations, passions, and values that I try to live by. Compassion, loyalty, integrity, honor, faithfulness, hard work, service unto others, self-discipline, accountability, and a good sense of humor contribute to my worldview and philosophy of nursing. I try to give the same quality of care to all patients and their family members, which I would want to be given as if it were I or my loved one. A nurse uses their professional moral compass to make the best decisions for their patient. Nursing is all about the patients and without values, morals, and ethics nurses lose the focus on the patients. Values are the moral principles and beliefs or accepted standards of a person or social group (“Value“, n.d.). Values are important because they can help influence decisions, actions, even nurse’s ethical decision making. Morals in nursing are the principles of behavior in accordance with standards of right and wrong. Ethics is about what kind of persons we are becoming – our character and how our choices shape us (“Ethics”, n.d.). The ethics of nursing is the nurse's...
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...Moral Compass Damon Horowitz, in his Ted talk calls it a moral operating system, which requires actual thought and reflection when making decisions about right and wrong actions . The Ethics and Compliance Institute, Ethics.org shares their version of an Ethical Decision-Making process based on filters and values. Their filters, PLUS (Policies, Legal, Universal, Self) provide four questions to guide decisions, suggesting a thoughtful and consistent process of analysis to guide leaders and organizations. Their values, EPIC (Empathy, Patience, Integrity, Courage) add another level of guidance based on the “universal” perceptions of right and wrong. Gensler proposes the Golden Rule as the universal moral compass, “Treat others as you want to be...
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...My Professional Moral Compass Having a proper understanding and adapting an acceptable code of ethics is essential to nursing profession and offers a principles that can be used as guide for producing ethical culture. Code of ethics helps nurse to direct practice with compassion and respect for human dignity, responsibility, accountability, confidentiality and protect patient safety (ANA Code of ethics, 2014). Codes of ethics also act as a guide for to develop and to perform the high quality of nursing (ANA Code of ethics, 2014). In my nursing profession, my personal, cultural, and spiritual values have direct effect to the people I interact and care for and has direct correlation in my decision making and thought processes which influences decisions. My values, morals, and ethics are forged from my childhood, the culture I grow up with, my customs and beliefs. My beliefs are shaped by the accumulation of my early year’s interaction with my families, friends, associates, education attainment and experiences. As a nurse, my philosophy is to help others who are in need by providing care and compassion and to be empathetic and sympathetic to others. My work ethics centers around nobility, kind attitude, and to respect others even though the patient value or belief is different from mine. As a nurse, I also have an obligation to provide the best quality care by making patients comfortable, safe, secured and informed and...
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...Running head: PERSONAL ETHICS Personal Ethics: Professional Moral Compass Grand Canyon University NRS 437V January 8, 2012 Professional Moral Compass Ethics, a branch of philosophy refers to the values for human conduct, considering the rightness and wrongness of actions and motives. As nursing profession is an integral part of the health care environment, the nursing ethics provides the insight to the values and ethical principles governing nursing practice, conduct, and relationships. The Code of Ethics for Nurses, adopted by the American Nurses' Association (ANA) is intended to provide definite standards of practice and conduct that are essential to the ethical discharge of the nurse's responsibility (American Nurses Association, 2012). A nurse cultivates personal ethics through personal, cultural and spiritual values which becomes a moral compass for their professional ethics. Personal ethics in combination with the code of ethics often assist the nurses in personal and social decision making during ethical dilemma. This ability prompts them to better respond to needs of the suffering patient and their own well-being. This paper will discuss the personal, cultural, and spiritual values contributing to nurses’ individual worldview and philosophy of nursing and the moral and ethical dilemma being faced in this profession. Values Contributing to Individual’s Worldview and Philosophy of Nursing Born in a Christian middle class South Indian family, the strict...
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...Another popular theory is based upon human error because the Triangle is one area out of two in the entire world where the compass points magnetic north, instead of true north. This can cause a difference of up to 20 degrees in compass readings, which could lead one way off course (Quasar). The Triangle’s environment also poses a different theory. Extreme, unexpected weather patterns have been known to take place in the area, for example, hurricanes and electrical storms. Plus, the Gulf Stream is powerful enough to wipe away all evidence of boats and planes that may have become caught in these storms...
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...Instrumentation & Avionics (Nov 10-13, 2015) The following questions based on the knowledge of chapter 7 Pitot-static instruments Airspeed and airspeed indicator The altimeter and Altitudes Gyroscopic instruments Attitude indicator Turn Coordinator Heading indicator 1. When activated, an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) transmits on A. | 400 MHz (current models) and 121.5/243.0 MHz (older models) | B. | 406 MHz (current models) and 121.5/243.0 MHz (older models) | C. | 400 MHz (current models) and 121.5 MHz (older models) | | 1. Answer B is correct. An ELT is an Emergency Locator Transmitter. ELTs are designed to automatically activate in the event of a crash and send out a signal that can be heard by SAR (Search and Rescue) personnel. * Modern ELTs operate on 406 MHz. These encode your aircraft's identification into the signal they send, and also encode your exact location if the ELT is coupled to an appropriate GPS. 406 MHz ELTs are monitored by orbiting satellites (global coverage) which are designed to alert appropriate SAR (search and rescue) personnel. * Older generation ELTs operate on 121.5 MHz. These do not encode an aircraft identification and also for other reasons have traditionally had a high false-alarm rate. While 121.5 MHz are still installed in many GA aircraft, it is recommended that operators switch to current generation ELTs. In either case, the ELT is generally a brightly colored box (yellow, red, or orange, typically)...
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...magnetize 3. site some uses of magnet 4. perform the activity with discipline, collaboration and cooperation Background: A magnet is any object that has a magnetic field. It attracts ferrous objects like pieces of iron, steel, nickel and cobalt. In the early days, the Greeks observed that the naturally occurring 'lodestone' attracted iron pieces. From that day onwards began the journey into the discovery of magnets. These days magnets are made artificially in various shapes and sizes depending on their use. One of the most common magnets - the bar magnet - is a long, rectangular bar of uniform cross-section that attracts pieces of ferrous objects. The magnetic compass needle is also commonly used. The compass needle is a tiny magnet which is free to move horizontally on a pivot. One end of the compass needle points in the North direction and the other end points in the South direction. The end of a freely pivoted magnet will always point in the North-South direction. The end that points in the North is called the North Pole of the magnet and the end that points South is called the South Pole of the magnet. It has been proven by experiments that like magnetic poles repel each other whereas unlike poles attract each other. http://www.howmagnetswork.com/ Materials Needed: * Fishing Poles made with meter stick with hanging magnet * Ziploc/ Plastic Bags filled with about 10-12 items (metal, paper, wood, cloth, etc) * Paper & Pencils, * Manila...
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...Comrade Compass is the character who wanders around the entire park. He knows the layout of Exploration Fixation like the back of his hand and is always helping the guest get to where they want to go. If you are lost Comrade is the one to go to. His needle is always pointed west, representative of how the explorers were always looking for more land, more resources, and more wealth in the frontiers of the New World. He can discuss his role in the Age of Exploration along with the other technological innovations. Not only this, but Comrade Compass is very adept in all the motivators for European exploration such as: wealth, religion, and glory. Along with being very helpful, Comrade is the character that perfectly captures the overall theme of the park. New Spain The four different sections of the park are based off of the locations in which the European countries sent their explorers. The New Spain section is designed to look...
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...the man who molested Johnny. Obviously, you cannot kill someone who raises both of their arms. However, morally, he did what he wanted to. Morally, he thought that he deserved to die. And finally, the most “grey” of all situations was when Lieutenant Doyle and Remmy Bressant teamed up together. Doyle kidnapped a child. It is against the law to kidnap a child. Just because morally, it may have been the best for Amanda, it does not make it legal. I think that there is a very fine line between always adhering to the rules and going with our morals. The thing is that, our moral are somewhat based on the rules set by society. We form our morals based off societal norms thus, most of the time, by adhering to your morals, you are also adhering to the laws. However, we can see that in some cases this is not true. Therefore, I believe that you should adhere to the rules. Everyone’s morals are different. So, if everyone were to follow their morals over the law, it would all become too chaotic. People would do whatever they want despite the laws. Breaking the law can be morally justified. For example, even though Lieutenant Doyle broke a law by kidnapping Amanda and keeping her away from her biological mother, morally it is somewhat justified. He did not keep amanda away to hurt her. He wanted to protect Amanda from going down the wrong road. He had good intentions so, in certain cases,...
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