What does professional commitment mean to you? Give an example.

What does professional commitment mean to you? Give an example.

Comment 1:

(Lorraine)

Personally, professional commitment is the responsibility to my patients, co-workers and my job.  Number 2 provision of the Nursing act stated: “The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population.”  Professional commitment for me is the sense of duty and obligation to the nursing career that I have I chosen.  Sometimes because of the challenges that we are facing, being committed to our job is so hard.  I think the healthcare industry has many dedicated workers.  Even though there are times we do not feel to go to work, we have the sense of responsibility to our patients and co-workers.  We know that if we do not show up for work, it will be harder for our patients and co-workers.

ANA holds that nurses in all roles and settings must recognize their responsibility for ethical practice environments and therefore must have access to resources that facilitate assessment, reflection, and support for education to improve ethical practice. Nurses in all roles and all settings desire and deserve to work in an ethical environment that respects the inherent dignity of every patient and every nurse. An ethical professional practice environment facilitates nursing care that prioritizes ethical reflection and inquiry, allows for expression of varying viewpoints without fear of reprisal, and promotes professional and ethical values and trust.

ANA supports initiatives providing ongoing ethics and ethical practice education for the nursing workforce in all roles and all settings. This education should include but not be limited to the definitions and principles of ethics in general, and bioethics, nursing, and organizational ethics specifically. Ethics education should include ongoing access to ethics resources/materials such as the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015a) (the Code) and opportunities for discussion of ethics topics and simulated situations without fear of retribution.

References:

nurses-professional-responsibility-to-promote-ethical-practice-environments-2021-final.pdf (nursingworld.org) (Links to an external site.)