Application In Nursing
A nurse speaks up when a patient’s pain concerns are being dismissed by the healthcare team, ensuring the patient’s voice is heard. Which relational ethics principle is demonstrated?
Advocacy
True or False: Relational ethics is only focused on following hospital rules and policies to make ethical decisions
It is False. Relational Ethics focuses on empathy, relationships, and understanding between nurses, patients, and healthcare teams and not just rules.
Empirical Research relies only on theory and opinion rather than observation or experimentation
False
When a nurse includes a patient and their family in care discussions, fostering shared understanding, what principle of relational ethics is demonstrated?
Mutuality
Why is relational ethics essential in nursing practice?
It helps nurses build trust, respect, and compassionate connections that support ethical, person-centered care.
What is empirical, research and why is it important for providing evidence in areas like relational ethics?
Empirical research is the study of phenomena through observation or experimnetation to gather evidence and draw conclusions