Read Critical Thinking Exercise: Ethical Dilemma Scenario

Leadership Assignment
Week #2
1. Read Critical Thinking Exercise,page 145, and discuss the following: a) What are the important data in relation to this situation? b.) State the ethical dilemma in a clear simple statement (right vs. right) c.) What are the choices of action and how do they relate to specific ethical principles? D.) What are the consequences of these actions? e.) What decision would you make? (Please use principles discussed in Chapter 7 to answer this question.)
A. What are the important data in relation to this situation? Base of the situation presented in the case, upon seeing the patient in the emergency department, as a nurse you will first assess the patient. Apply the ABC’s in assessing patient because this
This involves the principle of veracity, truthfulness. Will Bill would take the risk and just take what consequences it may arise by telling the truth. I know the license will be jeopardize if the client’s wife will take action and bring the case to legal action. Also, if Bill will tell the truth, is he willing to sacrifice his job in the said facility? Even if the client’s wife will not take a legal action, the higher authority in the hospital would know if the there is such action done by their employee without first notifying the proper authority in the hospital. If Bill will remain in silent, will it be possible to work and attend to the duties if you have those guilt feelings in yourself? Under the ethical principles in nursing, we should incorporate and apply the principle of beneficence, because the primary goal of health care is doing good for the patient and providing a competent care for the patient. Did Bill and other health team in the said facility apply that
But I have encountered an ethical dilemma during my residency program at V. Luna Medical Center in the Philippines. I have a patient on my care presenting a signs and symptoms of cancer. I will not go on details about my patient case, in short a patient a malignant cancer, a metastatic one but the family and relative does not know anything about the patient’s condition. The patient asks our cooperation not to tell the real diagnosis to his relatives especially with her wife and the three little children he has. So as a health provider, it is my duty to agree with the patient’s will but as the days go by the patient’s condition is deteriorating and it was very depressing that the wife doesn’t know anything. Will I tell the truth to patient’s family while the patient is still breathing and suffering from the effects of cancer? But because of the trust the patient with me, I haven’t told anybody in the family about the patients’ condition. I think it would tell the family that the patient’s condition is not good but try to make him happy while he is in the hospital. And when the time comes, I will tell the truth to the family specially the wife that the patient requested not to tell about the real diagnosis because he does not want them to be stressed out about his condition. The patient wants them to be at his side not thinking about a malignant cancer and not worrying how the patient and family will