Working in Health Care

Working in Health Care
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The world’s population is aging fast considering the decreasing fertility rates as well as the continued surge in longevity. It is evident that most countries particularly the developed ones are preparing themselves for the statistic that their fastest developing demographic is that of the elderly. Therefore, the number of home visit programs for the aging individuals have increased globally, so is the growth in the number of the aging population. This trend has prompted the healthcare sector to focus its attention on sick older individuals that are living in the society. Notably, ethics is considered a fundamental component in public health nursing. Therefore, it is of great value for the nurses to incorporate ethics as well as morality into their practice, thus the need to acknowledge fundamental civil rights that include equality as well as nondiscrimination. The most common ethical issues related to nursing include possible injustice, self-neglect, the self-worth of the clients as well as the challenges involved in ethical decision making.
According to Enes and de Vries (2004), there are main ethical themes that that emerge while dealing with the older adults. The most common theme is the quality of death where the nurses may encounter difficulties in the determining the suitability of life-prolonging measures. These measures may include resuscitation as well as artificial feeding and establishing when to stop treatment.

Additionally, the professional needs are also contended as ethical issues; caregivers sometimes may feel depressed when they are unable to offer their aging patients decisive care. Additionally, the relatives’ needs are also considered they are related to disclosure as well as difficulties in accepting the patient’s condition.
Additionally, the relationship between visiting nurses and the clients defines the success of visiting healthcare. It is important to note that the home- based nursing is often perceived as the customer’s endless odyssey toward health. In this journey, the visiting care fiver guides the client through planning, guidance as well as communication. Nevertheless, it is challenging for the visiting nurses to exhibit the good quality of attention in numbers (Morrison, 2009). Therefore, some nurses feel that they ought to sacrifice a higher quality of care because the community health organization that has hired them evaluated their work with regard to the number of patients that they visited.
Notably, public health nursing services often strive to identify elderly individuals that have health difficulties and help them to attain regular care and treatment. The ethical dilemma here occurs when nurses meet with older adults who are in desperate need for health services but do not have access, on the other extreme, there are those who acquire excess medical attention from multiple organizations. Thus compromising the issue of resource allocation (Phillips 2009). Choe, Kim, K., and Lee (2014) assert that some cultural values may not give priority for offering services as well as support for the older adults. For instance, the presence of firm elder bias in the American society prevents the application of recent scientific practices for the aging population. Moreover, the older adults may have a variation of risk profiles for uncertain health.
Conclusively, it is evident that many elderly individuals in our society are victims of prejudice. Moreover, the procedure of assessing the illness of an aging patient requires special skills. Aging clients connect several of their fears as well as wishes in means that are different from those of younger clients. Therefore, distinct habits of listening, of looking for and offering information, of replying are essential in caring for aging if they are to obtain suitable and satisfactory care. Most special ways include emphatic listening and paraphrasing the unheard questions. Ultimately, the knowledge, as well as skills of the nurses, increase through interacting with the patients as well as staying with them.

References
Choe, K., Kim, K., & Lee, K. (2014). Ethical concerns of visiting nurses caring for older people in the community. Nursing Ethics, 22(6), 700-710. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733014542676
Enes, S. & de Vries, K. (2004). A survey of ethical issues experienced by nurses caring for terminally ill elderly people. Nursing Ethics, 11(2), 150-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0969733004ne680oa
Morrison, E. (2009). Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century (1st ed.). Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
The Economist Intelligence Unit. (2009). Healthcare strategies for an aging society. NEW YORK: The Economist Intelligence Unit.