Prior to studying ET100N: Ethics, I had never contemplated where right and wrong was derived from or how I came to the conclusion that an act was right or wrong. I would just go by the morals I was brought up on and came to the conclusion that it is ones individual opinion if an act is right or wrong. I came to realise that conflicts of belief may arise throughout my future career in nursing and be unsure how I was going to be able to make the right decisions for my patients where by all parties involved would be satisfied by the outcome. It was through the studies of ethics that I have learnt how to overcome these conflicts and why it is that these conflicts arise in the first place.
In my studies of ethics this semester I have been exposed