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An Ethical Framework for Nursing Practice: Parse’s Human Becoming Theory

Embedded in nursing theory are ethical values, principles, and beliefs that co-constitute what it means to be ethical in the human-universe-health process. The assumptions, principles, tenets, and concepts of each nursing theory coconstitute the ethos (straight thinking) for nursing and serve as the guide for nursing practice, research, and education. To begin, the philosophical assumptions and principles of Parse’s human becoming theory are presented as an ethical framework for nursing practice. To illustrate, a situation with ethical analysis by F. Beryl Pilkington using the human becoming perspective is presented. The situation concerns a woman who had delivered a stillborn baby. Team members of a multidisciplinary perinatal bereavement team including a nurse expressed divergent worldviews of humans and health that gave rise to an ethical conflict concerning care for the woman. The following discussion will examine the opposing worldviews and their ethical implications in relation to the practice example.