I think nurses’ role in healthcare ethics is that no matter our personal morals and values, we have to care for each individual under the same standards of care and hold all patients in the same regard. Nurses are there for the patients and spend the most time interacting with patients. This means we get to know the patients the most and nurses can be a great patient advocate in ethical situations where ethics committees may need to be involved. Nurses can make sure that ethics committees are contacted if there is an issue of ethics such as a child wanting one thing for their health and their guardian wanting something else.

There may be different sides arguing an ethical issue but nurses can provide healthcare professional perspective and also patient advocacy, along with many other valuable team members on an ethics committee. Nurses can use evidenced based practice journal articles providing information that is relevant to ethics cases and use that to help with the ethical decisions. Nurses can help provide research knowledge that will help their patients as well. Nurses can also advocate for more research in aspects that there are not enough research studies yet to help patients that are looking for help or answers about their health conditions.