Ethical Frameworks in Maternal Health Services

Women encounter complications and challenges in pregnancy from conception to time of delivery and also after birth. Most of them do not know how to take care of the children at various stages of their pregnancy and what to do (Davenport & Kalakota, 2019). The UK sister-company fathers deal with these issues with professional nurses who care for women and children. Such treatment does not work without the ethics code and special competency requirements (Pozgar, 2019). A midwife must provide the services required by women in UK's respective hospitals (Sekoni et al., 2017). There are objectives or considerations in the parenting field that the sisters must recognize in their practice. These include a midwife is responsible for caring for women during pregnancy, work, childbirth, and delivery, as specified in the International Sheepfold Confederation (Sekoni et al., 2017). The confederation states that midwifery must be accountable and take clinical decisions within the field of practice in the simple sweeping practice. Sisters are responsible for their practice and can use their new abilities and know-how to fulfill their duties. The international body also says that women should have fair access to health services, that they are human rights workers, and that the parent should know the policies and exercise its part based on these policies in order to promote the health of women and their families (Sekoni et al., 2017).

A code of ethics gives midwifery valuable insights into the importance of playing roles in ethics and human rights (Hunteret al., 2018). It demonstrates that the welfare of women and babies will be compromised if civil and moral rights are violated. The ethical code, along with the criteria for skills of the parents, allows parents to have the healthcare they need. A nurse is qualified as a registered midwife and practices to the appropriate degree under standards for competence for registered nurses (2018).

Competency standards

As previously stated, midwifery experience must be tested, and certain skills must be considered (Hunteret al., 2018). The UK Council for Careers and Sisters has formulated criteria that a nurse in the area of sister-fathers needs to meet. These competencies are grouped into nine parts, each of which contains specific elements. The elements explain how the treatment of women in a hospital should be performed (NMC, 2020). An example is jurisdiction 1, which deals with common law and laws in the profession of parenthesis. It contains four elements. The first element (1.1) requires the midwife to act in line with pieces of knowledge of laws and common law in midwifery, and element two (1.2) requires the midwife to exercise the profession of a midwife while respecting the guidelines and policies of legal implications (NMC, 2020).

Accountability

Fetal charity and status and life worth are critical (Sekoni et al., 2017). Consequently, the midwife should make decisions based on these ethics and competency requirements. There are theories used to aid the sweeper in making choices in the decision-making procedure. The useful structure is sufficient in this case (Sekoni et al., 2017). The standards of ethics that should govern the midwife were previously mentioned as the fetus' accountability, beneficial and status. The skill requirements indicate what skills a midwife should have. Based on these measures, the midwife must decide on the lack of information about patient epidural treatment, take responsibility for the measures taken in this case regarding the practice, and take steps to deliver benefits (Sekoni et al., 2017).

In conclusion, decision-making in stereo practice is the most critical thing when various things happen. When caring for women and their children, various ethical considerations need to be addressed. A nurse must be qualified to do all of these things. The capacity to recognize the legal problems involved in a case is now developed, and the right expertise and qualifications to be applied are already identified. Competence lets you make appropriate decisions. As a father, it is seen that the ethical problems of the parent father and her skills are too highly dependent on this article.

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In the personal and professional lives of nurses, Social Media has increasingly grown to play an important role. Many social media outlets, including blogs and social networking websites, are accessible for nurses. Social media can make networking more manageable by allowing nurses to communicate with colleagues. Social media, however, pose a possible danger for nurses and patients in terms of breaches of ethical limits, violations of patient privacy, damage to occupational reputation, legal problems, or licensing. This paper tries to explore possibility for a nurse to maintain confidentiality while using social media in their profession.

Healthcare professionals are responsible for maintaining behavioral expectations aligned with standards regulating the occupation of the nursing profession in their personal life and at work in order to preserve the integrity of their professions. Bijani et al. (2019) indicates that social media posts will negatively influence their organizations when they share unprofessional material on social media. The actions of nurses are considered public activities on social media platforms (NMC, 2018). The content of the posting of nurses represents the professionalism of nurses and can influence the public's views on nursing workers. Inappropriate behavior may damage the professional image and credibility of nurses. In addition, a nurse may face harmful implications such as fines, termination, or permanent or temporary license revocation (Poorchangizi et al., 2018). Several practices in social media can be viewed as unprofessional professionalism and social media. For example, violation of patient privacy, use of biased or unspeakable words, pictures of intoxication or sexual suggestiveness, as well as negative remarks about a worker or patients (Heslop, Burns, & Lobo, 2018).

Personal privacy or non-ethical confidentiality (NMC, 2018) can be violated when it violates patient privacy or confidentiality. Disclosure of privileged health information is a violation of (NMC, 2018) rules, whether deliberate or unintentional. According to Tram & Routon, (2019), violation of patient privacy and privacy can be accidental or deliberate in social media and can take place in many different ways. A caregiver can breach a patient's privacy by posting information such as pictures of clients or videos without any valid approval, even if no information is available which identifies them, commentary on patients with degradation or degradation, and exposure of too many patient details, such as room numbers and other information, which enables them to be identified easily.

Social networking activities can be increased by talking to patients in a nurse's social media forum and receiving requests from friends from their current and previous patients. Caregivers should stop accepting a request from a Patient they tended to on social media. If a patient sends a request by a friend to them, they should redirect it to a safer system that is safer or add it to a social networking page, for example, LinkedIn. Patients may become fans or friends of this website, which provides only details relevant to clinical care. Medical professionals must comply with professional limits when using social media. Similar to face-to-face experiences, the nurse is responsible for defining, talking, and implementing ethical limits in an online setting with customers. The nurses should be careful when engaging in discussions with their clients, previous clients, or relatives. It could be helpful to avoid communication with patients.

Overall, I believe that nurses can use social media sites professionally while at the same time maintaining confidentiality. However, if they cannot maintain the organization's confidentiality, they must stop using social media. Social media acts as a means of communication. Therefore, it is the responsibility of a nurse to determine the content to post on their personal social media account. They should post things that are not related to their professionalism or their workplace.

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Reference

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https://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/standards-for-nurses/pre-2018-standards/standards-for-competence-for-registered-nurses/