Decision Making In Nursing

Decision making is used in the medical profession every day. Physicians are making decisions with every patient they see. The patient is also having to make the decision of what treatment to receive. Decision making is used during medical procedures. When making a decision one has to think of the best and productive treatment for the patient. Interviewing Marie Cain gave a lot of insight on her decision making with her lung cancer. Having a positive outlook on health, treatment, and prognosis can help a person through their progress. (Editor, page 5). Doctors are not the only decision makers, medical and office personnel in the office have decision making power also. Physicians make decisions every day while dealing with their patients. When physicians see a patient, they must decide what to test for, what medication to give, and even predict prognosis. When a physician has a patient with a serious illness, they carefully decide how to tell the patient their diagnosis. Physicians must be able to make decisions of when to tell the patient what the outcome could be. Some of the decisions the physicians have to make could be very complicating to them. Decision making for a physician having to tell a patient of a detrimental prognosis is heart breaking. I don’t know if I would be able to tell a patient
Nurses carefully talk to patients to receive as much information as possible to help the physician diagnosis the problem. The office staff also has to make decisions all the time. They makes the decision of moving patients up the line, if necessary, to see the physician. They even make the decision with billing, payments, and scheduling. The nursing and office staff has decision making powers on dealing with hostile patients, unhappy, rude or even loud people. Decision making is also used in all hospital setting by the nurses, office staff, and