#Beneficence ethical principle professional
The history of nursing shows that professional ethics, as a familiar concept in nursing, has been an inherent part of this profession since the early days, and it is internationally recognized as an essential part of nurses’ practice. Hence, The nursing profession is considered a discipline with a health-oriented approach, which, focuses on the caring situations and helps people to adapt to their disease and improve their current performance capacity despite the disease. Good nursing care aims at the enhancement of the dignity of the human being in all dimensions and also succeeds to realize this intention in practice and it is considered dignity-enhancing care. Therefore, understanding these principles and values is considered the first step in understanding ethics and its relationship with health care. Bioethics is the application of ethical theories and principles in ethical issues or healthcare dilemmas. Nursing ethics is considered an issue of bioethics, and a short time has passed since its formation. An ethical nursing practice can transform healthcare practices. Providing care based on ethics is one of the approaches in the nursing discipline that nursing ethics theorists have discussed. Today, nurses are considered the biggest human capital in the health care system so the care provided by them is one of the main components of services in this system. Conclusionīased on the results of this review it seems that paying attention to clarification the principle of beneficence in nursing care can provide positive outcomes for patients to benefit from this principle and finally, it leads to increasing the well-being and health of patients, reducing their mortality rate, increasing satisfaction and maintaining the respect and human dignity of patients. ResultsĪfter reviewing and evaluating the qualified articles, the findings were classified into four main categories: (1) nature, (2) applicability, (3) Relevant and influential factors, and (4) challenges related to the ethical principle of beneficence in nursing care. After applying inclusion criteria and assessing the articles using Bowling’s Quality Assessment Tool, finally, 16 papers were included from 984.
Databases like SID, Irandoc, Magiran, Google Scholar, Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus were searched using the keywords “beneficence”, “ethic”, “nursing” and “care” in English and Persian in the time range of 2010 to 10 February, 2023. This integrative review was conducted using the Whittemore & Knafl method in 5 stages, including problem identification, searching the literature, evaluating primary sources, analyzing data, and presenting the results. This study aimed to investigate clarification of the principle of beneficence in nursing care and its related challenges. One of these ethical principles is beneficence, which is considered the core of nursing care. As the biggest human capital in the health care system, nurses are obliged to follow ethical principles in this field. Ethics-based nursing practice can transform health care practices.
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