Ethical Issues In Nursing Care

Thank you for sharing your story. You can become morally distress when you have unfair patient assignment and staff shortages. It was not fair to the patient as well as the nurse for having neutropenic patient and contact isolation patient at the same time. According to the Chinn and Kramer (2010) “emancipatory knowing realizes nurses that there is something wrong with the way things are and that it is possible to change what is for the better” (p.66). Similarly, in this situation, you voiced your concern to the charge nurse. You identified that main barrier to this situation was short staff. Once you knew that there was not going to be change in the patient assignment, your priority was to provide best care to the patient. Thus, you assessed