Taking Shortcuts and Workarounds: Is it Ethical?

Current healthcare practices are geared toward standardized policies and procedures that are intended to guide the practice of all members of the healthcare professions, especially the practice of nurses. Instead of using predefined practices, nurses often choose shortcuts or workarounds to complete daily work in healthcare institutions. Are the shortcuts considered ethical for nurse practice or for members of the discipline of nursing? This article begins an ethical straight-thinking discussion on the conflicting values and implications for those who offer professional nurse services and those who receive these services.

Hermeneutics: An Ethical Journey.

Hermeneutics is an important philosophical mode of inquiry where discipline-specific theories and methodologies provide important windows of understanding human experiences. The author discusses the embedded truths of ethics found in the formal inquiry where human living quality phenomena are highlighted. The valuable insights and the importance to the future of the discipline of nursing focus on ideas for suggested further study.

Influences of the Arts and Nurse Ethics.

Art has limitless definitions, meanings, and modes for presentation. It is a pivotal cocreation designed to provoke and stir up artists' personal beliefs, values, and thinking. Art is uniquely received by those persons experiencing it in the moment. The author in this article illuminates the significance of the arts with the enduring ethical truths found in nursing paradigms and theoretical frameworks. The humanbecoming ethos is used to illustrate the importance of the arts in human living and its future implications for the advancement of the discipline of nursing.

Living on the Edge: Paradoxical Experiences With Ethics.

Paradox is living phenomenon that provides insights into straight thinking and diverse human experiences important to the discipline of nursing from a nursing philosophical theory-based approach. Here, the author delves into the metaphorical experience of living on the edge and the paradoxical concepts that assist the discipline in its thinking about artificial intelligence. Possible ethical implications of utilizing artificial intelligence from a humanbecoming ethos of understanding are discussed. The metaphorical implications for future disciplinary priorities are presented.

ChatGPT and Forms of Deception.

The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT movement has upset and permeated all aspects of the healthcare arena, including the discipline of nursing. The use of ChatGPT is ethically controversial. This article begins a discussion regarding the impacts of ChatGPT and the possibilities of deception with its usage in scientific and disciplinary publications and academic products.

Persevering: An Ethic of Choice.

Perseverance is a living phenomenon that is uniquely important with individuals, groups, and community. Persevering is persistently choosing one direction from another in spite of the urgings of others and the unknown consequences. The action of persevering reflects prized and cherished values reflective of the person's unique identity. It is an ethic of choice to be honored. This article begins an ethical straight-thinking discussion of the ethos of honoring human dignity while bearing witness with others who are persevering with life-altering turbulence with the passing of a life. A humanbecoming ethos of enduring truths will be applied to a family story.

The Paradoxical Tensions of Speaking-Being Silent: An Ethical Perspective.

Choosing whether or not to speak or be silent is a paradoxical experience that emerges in the moment. For the discipline of nursing, it is an important value priority found in nurse-person, nurse-group, and nurse-community situations. The discipline of nursing is at a crossroad when contemplating what its place and status will be in the chaotic and ever-changing healthcare and higher educational arenas. The author in this article sheds new light on the future direction for what it means to articulate meaning as a nurse and the ethical consequences of choosing to speak-not speak up for the ever-changing priorities and purposes of the healthcare disciplines.

A Moment in Time.

Time is often reflected in a linear, chronological order. It is considered a basic unit of reference for institutions that employ nurses, and it is referred to as nursing time. This article raises a discussion regarding ethical thinking for the meaning of time as glimpsing the moment and its importance for persons' living quality. Implications for nurse practice and the future of nurse education shall be undertaken.

Ethics and Emerging Health Policy.

Following the tumultuous times of a pandemic, members of the healthcare disciplines, including nursing, face mounting priorities and ethical straight-thinking questions for policy development. The processes for developing ethical policies must acknowledge others' health priorities and what matters to them instead of political agendas that dominate global thinking. An example of doing harm in healthcare is examined here as a priority leadership policy opportunity from a humanbecoming ethos understanding.

Is Death the Enemy? Reconsidering the Significance of Metaphor in End of Life.

Metaphors are important ways to language meaning and illustrate imaginative thinking for the healthcare disciplines. Normative ethics focus on metaphors of war, torture, and art that guide thinking in end-of-life decision-making. This article begins a discussion of novel, imaginative thinking for consideration of metaphors such as holding on-letting go as paradoxical ways of being and quality during end of life. The discussion will be viewed through a case study utilizing the philosophical, theoretical lens of humanbecoming.

The Future of Nurse Scholarship: The Ethical Challenges.

The advancement of a healthcare discipline is reliant on the disciplines' ability to produce rigorous scholarship activities and products. The healthcare disciplines, especially nursing, are facing ever-changing priorities as shortages loom and exhaustion permeates the climate. Empirical public health priorities during the pandemic have dominated professional healthcare literature and global health communications. This article shall offer ethical implications for the discipline of nursing as it seeks the advancement of scholarship. Topics include straight-thinking issues surrounding nursing and medicine national policy statements, the big data movement, and evolutionary return of competency-based nurse education.

Ethical Implications for Mentoring and the Discipline of Nursing.

The discipline of nursing is at a crossroads following the pandemic as scores of both budding and seasoned scholars and practitioners have left the discipline of nursing. Lower numbers of experienced nurses are entering into doctoral programs of nursing, especially PhD programs. A mentoring model is needed to guide and retain budding scholars of the discipline. The author of this article presents the humanbecoming mentorship model. It will be used to illustrate ethical straight-thinking implications for the future of the discipline of nursing.

Risking Human Dignity With Innovations: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Discipline of Nursing.

Computerized technologies and expanding digital information are evolving in a highly complex system where novel innovations and creations of artificial intelligence such as "care robots" entangle the interactions of machines with human beings. Its usage and the usage of other technologies potentially bring into question what it means to be a human being. Artificial intelligence and its products potentially transgress the core values of nursing and potentially risk human dignity. In this article, the author offers ethical (straight thinking) ethos and implications for the future of nursing as a discipline.

Shame: Ethical Considerations During the Pandemic.

The concept of shame and shaming has been prevalent in the healthcare literature and on social media platforms during the pandemic. There are innumerable ethical implications for the discipline of nursing to consider as the concept of shaming oneself and others is evident in healthcare situations. Shame is an enduring truth found in the humanbecoming ethos of human dignity. This article begins an analysis and discussion of the straight-thinking implications of shame and shaming others while desiring to honor others with human dignity as they traverse the chaotic healthcare system.

Ethical Significance of Being Present With Others During the Pandemic Era.

Human presence with others is vital in the healthcare experience for those who are giving and receiving services, especially during the upheaval unfolding concurrently with a pandemic. The author wishes to explore the notion of telepresence, uniquely defined as a potential living quality priority for those experiencing hospitalization and/or isolation from others. The ethical implications will be undergirded utilizing the humanbecoming enduring truths of reverence, betrayal, awe, and shame.

Living the Art of Nursing: Lessons From a Pandemic.

Living the art of nursing during the challenging times of a pandemic has profound implications for the discipline of nursing. Opportunities and limitations coexist with persons who shelter in place while others continue to practice amid personal risk in institutions where vital healthcare services are provided. This article illustrates potential lessons to be learned for future nurse practice and the ethos or straight-thinking implications for living quality during a global health crisis.

Consequences for Straight Thinking in Nursing Ethics.

The concepts of nursing ethics continue to be seen through the lens of medical science and the systematic study of bioethics. The discipline of nursing has chosen through its philosophical educational systems to focus on the systematic study of bioethics as foundational to doctoral, graduate, and advanced practice nursing programs. In choosing to focus outside of the discipline for this straight thinking inquiry, what are the consequences for the discipline as well as to humankind for the lack of discipline-specific inquiry and practice as articulated by the discipline of nursing? This article begins a conversation for the straight thinking priorities that should be considered by the discipline of nursing for the study of nursing ethics.

Ethical Implications for Preserving the Name of the Discipline of Nursing.

The term nursology has resurfaced in the nursing literature as a replacement name for the discipline of nursing. This article reviews the historical significance of the current terminology and the ethical implications that demand the preservation of the language of the discipline. The humanbecoming ethos of enduring truths is used to illustrate the importance of the current terminology for future generations of nurses and for serving humankind.

Ethical Truths in the Discipline of Nursing.

There are different paradigms in the discipline of nursing that contain theories that guide the practice, research, and education for members of the discipline. Each paradigm and nursing theory espouses ethical truths differently. The author in this article introduces the notion of teaching the ethos of humanbecoming dignity through uncovering the abiding truths of presence, existence, trust, and worth. A suggested situational teaching-learning tool is introduced to illustrate the potential uncovering of ethical truths for students of the discipline.

Ethics of Scholarly Collaboration.

Scholarly collaboration with others involves endeavors filled with known-unknown expectations and ambiguity in the development of projects, presentations, and publications. This article begins an exploration of potential ethics involved in situations of collaboration among scholars as potential conflicts of interest unfold. The straight-thinking ethos surrounding collaboration is highlighted from a humanbecoming leading-following model.