Explain Why The Nurse Should Tell Other Health Care Professionals About Patient's Suicide

Every 40 seconds a person in the world commit suicide and approximately 800 000 people take their own life every year (World Health Organisation, 2017). Suicide has become a serious public health problem globally. Health care professionals always encounter a lot of ethical issues in the working environment and they have to make the decision based on the ethical responsibilities. The clinical case demonstrates an ethical dilemma involves an end-stage aggressive lung cancer patient who expressed the thought of committing suicide to one of the nurses and asked that nurse to keep it confidential for her.
The incompatibility between the patient’s beneficence that the nurse should tell other healthcare professionals about patient's suicide attempt