Ethical Dilemma Nader Ayyad Chamberlain College of Nursing Pediatric/Nursing Ethical Dilemma A major health problem that is affecting millions of children around the globe is child maltreatment (ANA‚ 2015). Child maltreatment is any act of harm or threat to a child under the age of eighteen by a parent‚ caregiver‚ or guardian (ANA‚ 2015). There are four common types of abuse; physical abuse‚ sexual abuse‚ emotional abuse‚ and neglect (CDC‚ 2015). There are many forms of neglect such as
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• Ethical Dilemmas Patient 1: This patient is admitted to ER with Respiratory Failure and Septic Shock. The patient was transferred to LTAC for long term management of disease. Patient’s chart states that she has DNR/DNI order‚ but her son was disagreeing with that decision. One of the ethical principles that direct ethical decision making in health care is the autonomy-the ability of the individual to chose for him or herself. Patient 2: This patient was admitted with endocarditis and had a tracheostomy
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essential for nurses to participate in order to focus on ethical and moral issues and note situations that appears to be dilemmas with the help of professional and ethical competence (Tschudin‚ 2002). Moreover unprofessional ethical practice may result to litigations if care was deemed not to be professionally sound. LEGAL ISSUES In conjunction to professional and ethical issues‚ legal issues is an emerging contemporary issues in nursing. Several studies and literatures have been written in relation
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing This paper explores the legal and ethical nursing issues surrounding two different health care case studies. The first case study is regarding the decision-making process of a family for aggressive vs. palliative measures for a patient without advanced directives. The second case study is regarding a nurse’s obligation to report witnessed negligent actions of another nurse being sued in a malpractice case. This
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Ethical frameworks revolve around being a morally good person and therefore guides the way healthcare professionals treat and care for their patients. Referring to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2013) and the Public Sector Ethics Act (2014)‚ nurses and paramedics are bound by similar ethical frameworks. These revolve around being kind and respectful to all patients‚ no discriminating or judgments for any reason‚ all patients having the right to truthful information and the right to
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healthcare is about and blood transfusions assist in that. For some‚ however‚ blood transfusions are not an option. Although denial of life saving measures such as blood transfusions may not be ideal for members of healthcare‚ it is an important ethical issue and belief for some. With that being said‚ it is important as a leader in healthcare to have a better understanding of this in order to advocate for the patient‚ communicate the patients views‚ and provide excellent patient care. There are
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The twin dilemma was very interesting to me‚ because the twins are the same and different at a same time. I don’t think that they are going to develop and grow in the exactly same way because every child is unique in their own way. In my classroom‚ I have twins that are 2 years old. They are a boy and a girl that look exactly same‚ but they have some difference as we. When I compare these twins a boy is never talking but girl is. He doesn’t know to say any single world but girl knows some words
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situations like this could be when I was a new nurse. If I were the new nurse in this scenario‚ I hope that I would choose the third option. My progression through the steps in the Ethical Model for Ethical Decision Making proposed by McGonigle‚ Mastrian‚ and Farcus (2018‚ p. 89-91) are as follows: 1. Examine the ethical dilemma. In the situation you have presented‚ a new nurse has been asked by a physician to send an EKG via an unsecured text to prevent having to wait for the EKG to be uploaded
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I’ve encountered an ethical dilemma situation in my recent capstone clinical. My clinical preceptor and I caught in the concepts of the principles of autonomy‚ veracity‚ and nonmalifecence. This occurred when we provided nursing service to a 30-years-old male patient who was taken to the ED as a post-code patient. The EMS team arrived in the scene and initiated CPR and defibrillated a client (on the floor of his room). The client ended up in the ICU with a diagnosis of hypoxic- anoxic injury (HAI)
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Another consideration in this scenario is the principle of non- maleficence. This ethical principle requires nursing staff to avoid the causation of harm in a way that benefits the patient. It is related closely to beneficence (Martin‚ 2015).To address the issues of non-maleficence for instance‚ the commitment is not to prevent harm only but the nursing staff should not expose their patients to pointless unsafe risks (Foley & Christensen‚ 2016). If the nurses go ahead and wash Gerald they will be
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