Professional Growth

Professional Growth

Developing Ethical Practice

Part I

In any industry , business or work , morality is a sensitive issue that needs to be personally and professionally addressed . Individuals have moral convictions as much as companies have their moral values where usually their corporate culture is based . Thus , t is important for companies to look at their moral background as this will influence the moral values of their employees . Equally , employees should share the right moral values for their company and colleagues

Yet where before professional development revolved around trainings and

educational achievements for a person to be able to propel forward in his career , today professional development embodies different aspects of growth . Apart from training , professional development now requires goal setting , research , action plans , improvements , and a never-ending learning process . Each one is a pre-requisite of the other to qualify that a person is really growing professionally and developing in his chosen industry . Moral values are integral aspects of this (Litke 1996

Before , planning is a job for firm administrators . They dictate where the company is going , and where the people in it go as well . This exemplifies how the values of a company help shape the individual values of the employees . This has widely changed . Effective planning is now a personal decision of the employees . It is now their prerogative . Thus moral values have now become an individual choice as well . In effect these individual ethics make up the ethics in which the company dwells in (Rennekamp , nd

Education

My educations influenced my ethical upbringing in a variety of ways Throughout my school years , I had my share of challenges on my moral and ethical values . Specifically , interaction with other students tested my ability to uphold my ethical beliefs . While other students indulge in what can be considered forms of cheating , speaking ill about others , and the likes , I tried my best to avoid doing such . It is undeniable that it is not only once when I experienced such occurrences . There were also times when I failed fighting these temptations . Yet most importantly those experiences taught me the value of friendship and camaraderie - when it is right and wrong , honesty , dignity , and strength of values

Education has been a big part of my ethical development . My formal education and training where starting points on the way I performed and moved through my career . I received my professional certification upon passing the licensure examination of Canada in 1991 , the same year after receiving my diploma in Associate Arts in Nursing . Also in the same year I was employed as a clinical nurse for the medical respiratory-cardiac unit of a hospital until 1994 . After this assignment I received a position as a critical care nurse in an intensive care unit . Until now I have been handling this type of job for intensive care units while also holding a position as an e-Nurse . All these roles challenge my morality every day . All of these also create new ethical principles to live by

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