ABSTRACT
You will need to understand and be sensitive to the ethics behind the care you deliver and decisions you make, and ethical principles will help you to justify your practice. To be morally sensitive in practice, you will need to show the ability to recognise moral conflict and show an intuitive understanding of the person in your care in context, and you will need to show insight into the ethical consequences of decisions made (Lützén et al. 2000). Johnstone (2009) further suggested that the right action (an ethical action) is reliant on your ability to recognise moral issues, knowing how to take the ethical action, and your commitment and wish to achieve a moral outcome.
