Nursing Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Nursing Ethics June 24, 2013

In hospitals, especially emergency rooms and intensive care units, nurses encounter many critically ill patients. “One-fifth of the patients cared for by critical care nurses die in the intensive care unit” (Browning, 144), when these patients are nearing the end of their lives there are many decisions that need to be made by the patient if they are able and their family. Healthcare workers are put under tremendous amounts of stress in these situations, especially when they disagree with what the current code status of their patient. According to Rosenburg, the “current ethical codes provide guidance for supporting
This improvement has “brought with it the promise of more efficient treatment techniques, extending life inappropriately and futile prolonging of patients’ suffering have become commonplace for critical care nurses caring for dying patients” (Browning. 144). Seeing these patients sustained longer than the nurse feels is ethically responsible may cause a large amount of turmoil in his or her personal life, the profession of nursing is one that requires much of you. Nurses are there for their patients in ways that sometimes the families are
Often times as the patient’s advocate the nurse feels that he or she may know what’s best or what the patient would want. By being at the bedside of many patients’ in similar situations nurses see what the patients are put through during life sustaining acts. Sometimes these acts are more traumatic than the illness that brought the patient into the hospital; many times in the emergency room this writer has heard nurses say, things like “we’re not doing them any favors.” This saying is normally when uttered when CPR is in progress or has brought back a patient that has a poor