Jane Doe Nursing Ethics

According to the medical dictionary nursing ethics has to do with an association a nurse has with her patients, patients’ family, her co-workers, and society. “The Code (ANA, 2001) provides the nurse guidelines for legal and ethical responsibilities to patients and, in the broader sense, to society” (Lachman, 2009, p. 87). The other day a senior nurse, we will refer to Nurse X, on out unit was assigned to care for a young patient in her 40’s, she is trached and on a ventilator with multiple surgical problems and complications. This patient has been on our unit since late September of this year. At 0300 and we see this patient, which we will name Jane Doe, respiratory rate in the 60’s, systolic blood pressure in the 200’s and in a full state