Abstract
Background: Eye witness is an act that helps to provide justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and autonomy to any victim thus prevents misconduct and crimes from the society. Crime is an act of planning, preparing, stealing, harming and destroying individuals, groups or societies rights. Crime is one of the social and ethical issue that is prohibited in every religion and society. Healthcare professionals are suffering from different kind of workplace violence, harassments and abuses by patient attendants. Moreover, taking medicines or equipments from wards, and errors during surgical procedure is again consider crime. Nurses usually deal with issues and situations that have elements of ethical and moral uncertainty. Unfortunately such kind of crimes are not reported and remain unnoticed. It is our responsibility to become eye witness and report all those act which can prevent deviation from the standard of care as well as insure safety of health care providers. Methodology: Data were collected through systematic data search technique. Publication from 2001 to 2018 regarding eye witness were included in this study for review. After in depth screening, 22 articles were finally selected for review. Quality analyses were done according to pre-identified criteria. Result: Findings from retrieved and analyzed articles revealed that individuals cognitive power, confident level and theoretical knowledge is essential to become eye witness of any crime and misdeed. It is also evident from literatures that the outcome of telling lie and become fake eye witness has contextual consequences and punishment is different from context to context and person to person. According to three articles in this review, providing accurate and truth information regarding any crime is our responsibility and every religion possess and direct to provide correct information and become eye witness to prevent such acts which harm others. Conclusion: Nursing profession is facing number of challenges thus bulling and leg pulling is one of the issue which we seen in nursing profession. To take any decision and sharing any misconduct and immoral act by any person or health care providers we must have enough knowledge, confident, cognitive integrity to identify our personal values, moral development and knowledge of ethical theories for decision making in nursing to be a eye witness or not.
Highlights
Ethical decision making is difficult process as it needs thorough theoretical knowledge of ethical principle. [1, 2] Eye witness is an moral act which can helps to provide justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and autonomy to individual, groups and societies. [3] Different approaches are carrying out to provide justice for a victim or society as a whole, and eye testimony is one convenient approach for jury to provide justice in all judiciary system. [4] Eye witness some time becomes dilemma because of various factors
Evidence shows that approximately 71% eye witnesses were wrong assurance after DNA test of some criminal cases
We can save right of someone if we provide enough information for justice to oppressors, eye witness is one of the key for justice and preventive strategy for criminal acts
Summary
Ethical decision making is difficult process as it needs thorough theoretical knowledge of ethical principle. [1, 2] Eye witness is an moral act which can helps to provide justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and autonomy to individual, groups and societies. [3] Different approaches are carrying out to provide justice for a victim or society as a whole, and eye testimony is one convenient approach for jury to provide justice in all judiciary system. [4] Eye witness some time becomes dilemma because of various factors. [1, 2] Eye witness is an moral act which can helps to provide justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and autonomy to individual, groups and societies. Eye witness is an act that helps to provide justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and autonomy to any victim prevents misconduct and crimes from the society. According to three articles in this review, providing accurate and truth information regarding any crime is our responsibility and every religion possess and direct to provide correct information and become eye witness to prevent such acts which harm others. To take any decision and sharing any misconduct and immoral act by any person or health care providers we must have enough knowledge, confident, cognitive integrity to identify our personal values, moral development and knowledge of ethical theories for decision making in nursing to be a eye witness or not
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