Discuss: Use of Other Discipline Theories
While the field of nursing has a set of theories designated specifically to address the underlying issues, it has also borrowed from other sciences as well. For example, the field has borrowed from psychology, given that the practitioners often apply Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Additionally, the nursing field has borrowed from the scientific management field as professionals in the sphere, particularly the nurse leaders, often apply Kurt Lewin’s model of change to manage transition (Sutherland, 2013).
I have found myself in a series of ethical dilemmas. However, the most outstanding one involved a patient showing an interest in me. Sometimes back, I was working as a volunteer at a local care facility. I was assigned the role of an assistant in nursing. I attended to one of the clients hospitalized for a stomach infection. The client was appealed by my assistance such that she did not want any other assistance in nursing to address her needs. Three days before she was discharged, she confessed to me that she had developed an affection for me. I sought to discuss the matter with the client. As suggested by Paton and Cur (2017), I told her that, as an assistant in nursing, I was under the obligation to maintain a purely professional relationship with her. I also informed her that such a professional relationship was vital if she was to recover swiftly from her illness. Luckily, she understood my point.
My dilemmatic encounter with the patient closely relates to provision 2.4, which explains standards for professional boundaries (ANA, 2001). The code relays that nurses when acting within their professional duties, recognize and maintain suitable personal relationship boundaries. According to ANA (2001), this is because this relationship serves as the foundation for the promotion, protection, and restoration of health, not mentioning the alleviation of suffering.
References
ANA (2001). Code of Ethics for Nurses. Washington, D.C.: American Nurses Association.
Paton, F. & Cur, M. (2017). I’m Falling in Love with My Patient — Now What? Nurse Labs. Retrieved from https://nurseslabs.com/im-falling-love-patient-now/
Sutherland, K. (2013). Applying Lewin’s change management theory to the implementation of bar-coded medication administration. Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics, 8(1/2).