#441: Principles of Nursing Ethics

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Straight A Nursing

Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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If you’ve ever wondered what to do when a patient refuses treatment, when your personal values don’t match your patient’s decisions, or when you're stretched thin and trying to give equal care to everyone, this episode is for you. In today’s lesson, we’re breaking down the five core principles of nursing ethics: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and fidelity. Hit play on this episode to get clear definitions, real-world examples, and some practice questions to help you apply these concepts in school, on exams, and in your everyday role at the bedside. After all, ethics isn’t just textbook material, it’s a concept that shows up every single shift. ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight A Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:55.6	Well, hi there. I'm Nurse Mo, and this is the Straight A Nursing podcast where I teach concepts and share tips on how to thrive in school and at the bedside.
2:04.8	Today we are talking about something that comes up probably early on in nursing school and then is a part of your nursing life forever. And that, my friend, is nursing ethics. And if you are about to yawn,
2:11.9	trust me, it's not as boring as it sounds. And yes, this will be on your test before we hop into this topic
2:18.7	let's take a quick minute for our shout-out which goes out to Teresa who is
2:23.3	talking about my original nursing school thrive guidebook and the reason I wanted
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