Ethics

Today's morning lectures were supposed to be on Nursing Ethics, however the teacher was sick and instead we were given the lecture notes and also sent of in groups to research the codes of conduct on on the internet and discuss them.

We read through what was on the Nurses Board of Victoria website and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council. We were told that in about six months time the state nursing associations will be absorbed into the national one.

We also did some library research for our UTI group project before lunch. I had lunch with another student who had done first year nursing at another uni and said after the first semester's clinicals around half the students did not come back the next semester, because they were that turned off by the physical and dirty work they had to do. I think if people are really turned off by that it is fair enough and it probably means that nursing is not the right career for them. I hope for that doesn't happen, if I find it really unpleasant I hope it just motivates me to specialise in some area of nursing where I will be doing other things that are more enjoyable and interesting.