Nursing research provides healthcare practitioners with evidence-based care that enhances quality outcomes in the health of the communities‚ families‚ individuals as well as health care systems. As such‚ research is used to shape health policies in direct care and thus solve the dilemma or problems in nursing. Medical practitioners face ethical dilemma on a daily basis because what one person may consider ethical may be different from what is needed to approach a particular situation. Additionally
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core‚ nursing practice “deals with issues and situations that have elements of ethical or moral uncertainty” (Burkhardt‚ Nathaniel‚ & Walton 2014‚ p. 21). In my limited experience‚ this has proved very true. I have encountered numerous situations that‚ in reflection‚ could be considered ethical dilemmas. As I was not necessarily able to recognize this in the moment‚ I feel that there is significant room for growth in my ability to confront these issues. In this paper‚ I will discuss an ethical issue
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Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Issues The ethical dilemma is that the children of the woman with cancer are not being cared for adequately. The nurse must decide if it is ethically and morally sound to tell the school nurse about the daughters’ situation at home. Since the nurse is the caretaker of the mother and knows that she needs to keep her information about her health confidential. However‚ it is affecting the mental stability of her daughters because they are afraid of their mother’s declining
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data in the natural state of the nursing home. If they had intervened more than they had‚ they would run the risk of missing valuable information. 2. Who was responsible for the condition of the patient? Why? There were multiple people responsible for the condition of this patient. Although the nurses are ultimately responsible for the care of the patients they are assigned‚ the other staff at the nursing home must also be held responsible. The fact that the nursing home was severely understaffed
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punching the person that raped him? Is this man a victim of abuse or a suspect of serious assault? Ethical dilemmas such as this one are a common occurrence that‚ unfortunately‚ forensic nurses face in their everyday work. Although there are a vast number of nurses in the world‚ only a fraction of them are forensic nurses. Forensic nursing is a nursing field with subspecialties that focus on nursing practices that care for victims of violent crimes‚ such as sexual assault‚ at the clinical and legal
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Beginning of Nursing Educations Medical equipment technology has drastically changed the face of college educations throughout the years. As an aspiring nurse practitioner‚ I am aware that these ameliorations in technology will one day enhance my further education. There have been many milestones conquered in the field of nursing education‚ and the advancement to the Smart Hospital is one of the most distinguished in nursing’s history. Nursing education began with Florence Nightingale’s Principles for Nurses
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This essay will consider ethics in nursing‚ discuss values and morals and how dignity and respect in patient care is influenced; considering the importance of reflection and the implications it has on effective practice from the perspective of a student nurse. The scenario “Call Me Joe” provided by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2010a) highlights concerning issues and bad practice that are happening in modern day nursing practice‚ and using the Driscoll and Teh (2001) reflective model: What
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There is a myriad of ethical issues involved in an acute hospital setting where multiple issues may need to be addressed before‚ during‚ and after an admission to an intensive care unit. An Intensive Care Unit lends itself to an environment that is often chaotic with health care professionals busily caring for patients with critical medical needs and family members who are often not prepared for the worst-case scenario‚ especially end-of-life issues. Ethical issues are further complicated when
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The ethical dilemma This case presents an ethical dilemma‚ a situation which arises when one must choose between mutually exclusive alternatives (Beauchamp& Walters‚ 2003). Decisions may have results that are desirable in some respects and undesirable in others. In Juana ’s case‚ her decision to refuse the blood transfusion had the desired outcome of allowing her to remain true to her religious beliefs. However‚ her choice also resulted in her death. If she had followed the recommendation of
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healthcare there are three key ethical principles. Autonomy‚ this applies to the freedom to one’s choice and for this reason the right to self-determination; Nonmaleficence means no harm is to be made to patients intentionally or unintentionally and; Beneficence‚ this implies doing good for patients. In case of an emergency‚ treatments may have to started without consent‚ e.g.‚ in a traffic incident when the patient had a cardiac arrest‚ this complies with the ethical principle of beneficence. Obtaining
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