8.3 Ethical Decision Making And Framework Model
Forum topic: 8.3 Ethical decision making and framework model
1. Mr. X is HIV- positive and has not told his wife. Mr. Jacks nurse asks him to talk to his wife about his health status since his wife as well as their unborn child could be at risk. Mr. X remains adamant that he will not tell his wife and tells his nurse that if she does he will sue her.
What the nurse should decide?
2. A client wants to die at home in peace & comfort, the family knows that the presence of the client at home will create intolerable stress for other family members, the nurse is being pressurized by other members of the health care team to talk the family into taking the client home.
How the nurse should
react?
1. Mr. X is HIV- positive and has not told his wife. Mr. Jacks nurse asks him to talk to his wife about his health status since his wife as well as their unborn child could be at risk. Mr. X remains adamant that he will not tell his wife and tells his nurse that if she does he will sue her.
What the nurse should decide?
2. A client wants to die at home in peace & comfort, the family knows that the presence of the client at home will create intolerable stress for other family members, the nurse is being pressurized by other members of the health care team to talk the family into taking the client home.
How the nurse should
react?