Ethics and deontology in the practice of medicine. The responsibility of the nurse

Abstract

The hospital as an integral part of a medical and social structure has its mission, consisting of providing the user population with complete attention to their health, from the curative, preventive and rehabilitative point of view and irradiaridose with their external services to the family. Therefore, its staff represents a group of clue people, each from their respective area of ​​competence, work It goes down in a coordinated way, looking for the common good, providing attention to the users of the services.

The relationship between the different professionals that make up the health team of a hospital, involves a complex web of interrelationships and actions that translate into behaviors referred to both the "ways of being" within their profession, as well as the performance of the activities proper to its function.

In order to ensure the concordance of the behavior of each member of the hospital community, with the interests of others, healthy and sick, there is a need to remember the purpose of deontology, a discipline that guides our way of acting in life, that is, our behavior, with a sense of duty.

The nurse, like all other professionals, receives a professional degree that gives her the right to practice her own profession and obliges her to comply with the duties inherent to her, having as an ultimate social welfare. Thus, like all of them, we have PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, which is the obligation to render an account of our own acts.