![]() ![]() Singh & Ivory (2014) consider beneficence as the responsibility of healthcare experts to promote the well-being of patients through research and implementation of therapeutic interventions with the highest probability of positive patient outcomes. ![]() Also, sometimes this principle is also mentioned in the meaning of doing good, kindness, and charity or any action that benefits others. Various definitions of beneficence have been presented in different kinds of literature, which consider this principle as the essence of ethics and doing “good” with mercy, kindness, generosity, and charity for patients. In the nursing discipline, although professional ethics are well established, there is no real understanding of ethical principles, for this reason, several interpretations and definitions have been proposed. Although the concept of beneficence is widely used in medical sciences, it is not easy to define it precisely, and even few studies in health sciences have addressed the concept of beneficence. “Beneficence” is mentioned as a key component of bioethics and its outcome can help to receive the important and legitimate interests of the patient. It dares to say that the ethical principle of beneficence is an integral part of the mission of the nursing profession, which, according to a definition, implies doing positive things to help patients. One of these basic principles is “beneficence” which is considered the basis of nursing and medical activities that performing such beneficial actions can encourage the motivation of good works. Ideally, these principles are the same ones that all nurses should be aware of in their practice and follow in caring for clients in order to provide the best, safest, and most humanistic care for all of them. Four basic principles for bioethics were stated by Beauchamp and Childress, which are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. The history of nursing shows that professional ethics, as a familiar concept in nursing, has been an inherent part of this profession since the early days, and it is internationally recognized as an essential part of nurses’ practice. ![]() Hence, The nursing profession is considered a discipline with a health-oriented approach, which, focuses on the caring situations and helps people to adapt to their disease and improve their current performance capacity despite the disease. Good nursing care aims at the enhancement of the dignity of the human being in all dimensions and also succeeds to realize this intention in practice and it is considered dignity-enhancing care. Therefore, understanding these principles and values is considered the first step in understanding ethics and its relationship with health care. Bioethics is the application of ethical theories and principles in ethical issues or healthcare dilemmas. Nursing ethics is considered an issue of bioethics, and a short time has passed since its formation. An ethical nursing practice can transform healthcare practices. Providing care based on ethics is one of the approaches in the nursing discipline that nursing ethics theorists have discussed. Today, nurses are considered the biggest human capital in the health care system so the care provided by them is one of the main components of services in this system. Conclusionīased on the results of this review it seems that paying attention to clarification the principle of beneficence in nursing care can provide positive outcomes for patients to benefit from this principle and finally, it leads to increasing the well-being and health of patients, reducing their mortality rate, increasing satisfaction and maintaining the respect and human dignity of patients. ResultsĪfter reviewing and evaluating the qualified articles, the findings were classified into four main categories: (1) nature, (2) applicability, (3) Relevant and influential factors, and (4) challenges related to the ethical principle of beneficence in nursing care. After applying inclusion criteria and assessing the articles using Bowling’s Quality Assessment Tool, finally, 16 papers were included from 984. Databases like SID, Irandoc, Magiran, Google Scholar, Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus were searched using the keywords “beneficence”, “ethic”, “nursing” and “care” in English and Persian in the time range of 2010 to 10 February, 2023. This integrative review was conducted using the Whittemore & Knafl method in 5 stages, including problem identification, searching the literature, evaluating primary sources, analyzing data, and presenting the results. This study aimed to investigate clarification of the principle of beneficence in nursing care and its related challenges. One of these ethical principles is beneficence, which is considered the core of nursing care. As the biggest human capital in the health care system, nurses are obliged to follow ethical principles in this field. Ethics-based nursing practice can transform health care practices.
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