Ethical Issues In Nursing Research Paper
Nursing Ethical Issue and Decision Making Process
The end-of- life is the most crucial time where conflicts can occur between heath care professionals such as doctors, nurses and other specialists, between family and the patient, and between nurses themselves. These conflicts can be created because of different values and beliefs among different people. Although patients and their families are living together, there are still chances that values can be different amongst them. The end- of- life in the adolescents have same situation where values of children differ from values of their parents and families. My stance on this ethical issue is to support my patient’s wish. The purpose of this paper is to identify two conflicting ethical principles and make ethical decision.
In this paper, I will discuss how seventeen-year-old girl’s decision about treatment is different from her parents (see appendix). I will also discuss ethical issue in broad aspect and then I will discuss how two ethical principles can conflict with each other at the same time in case of Lucia. I will also describe the relational ethics and how they differ from traditional ethical theories. In the last part, I will use Oberle and Raffin model to make an …show more content…
End of life care is relevant to nursing because nurses are with their patients for most of the time and play a major role in how patient’s lives will end. However, nurses encounter some challenges while choosing care for their patients. With advancement of technology, nurses face the dilemma whether the wishes of the patient regarding withhold or withdraw the treatment in end of life should be followed, or the wishes of family should override the wishes of a patient when parents consider physical existence with help of technology and advanced treatment is worth living (Azotam, 2012, p.
The end-of- life is the most crucial time where conflicts can occur between heath care professionals such as doctors, nurses and other specialists, between family and the patient, and between nurses themselves. These conflicts can be created because of different values and beliefs among different people. Although patients and their families are living together, there are still chances that values can be different amongst them. The end- of- life in the adolescents have same situation where values of children differ from values of their parents and families. My stance on this ethical issue is to support my patient’s wish. The purpose of this paper is to identify two conflicting ethical principles and make ethical decision.
In this paper, I will discuss how seventeen-year-old girl’s decision about treatment is different from her parents (see appendix). I will also discuss ethical issue in broad aspect and then I will discuss how two ethical principles can conflict with each other at the same time in case of Lucia. I will also describe the relational ethics and how they differ from traditional ethical theories. In the last part, I will use Oberle and Raffin model to make an …show more content…
End of life care is relevant to nursing because nurses are with their patients for most of the time and play a major role in how patient’s lives will end. However, nurses encounter some challenges while choosing care for their patients. With advancement of technology, nurses face the dilemma whether the wishes of the patient regarding withhold or withdraw the treatment in end of life should be followed, or the wishes of family should override the wishes of a patient when parents consider physical existence with help of technology and advanced treatment is worth living (Azotam, 2012, p.