Professional Moral Compass Kelly Ross Grand Canyon University: NRS437V-O103 Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare June 15‚ 2014 Professional Moral Compass A moral compass is defined as: “anything which serves to guide a person’s decisions based on morals or virtues” (moral compass‚ n.d.). In this paper‚ the writer will examine what defines her nursing moral compass by taking the reader through her personal nursing ethic‚ how her personal‚ cultural and spiritual values have influenced
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has rang through the nursing field. As health care reform and insurances make critical changes‚ nurses are forced to keep up. Nursing managers are in a bind to meet the new budget cuts and criteria set forth by these changes‚ which includes higher patient to nurse ratios. Low staffing can lead to nurse burnout‚ job dissatisfaction and poor staff retention (International Journal of Nursing Practice‚ 2014). This article will outline some issues at hand with unsafe staffing ratios and the legislative
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Patient and Family Involvement to Ethical Issue on Care Decision Making Purpose: Decision making is a crucial element in the field of medicine and health care. The physician has to determine what is wrong with the patient and recommend treatment‚ while the patient has to decide whether or not to seek medical care‚ and go along with the treatment recommended by the physician. Patients have both rights and responsibilities when it comes to their health and the health care services
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constitution. Hence‚ nurses and for that matter‚ all health care professional have a legal‚ moral and ethical responsibility to protect patient’s privacy. Moral and ethics are all about doing good and not causing harm to individuals and society. Thus standing in Lena shoes is not an easy responsibility at all. Lina certainly faced an ethical dilemma of balancing the safety of her sister health and the privacy of her patient. Erickson and Millar (2005) sated “As nurses‚ we need to balance patient safety and
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One of the most challenging moral/ethical dilemmas to resolve occurs when the patient’s autonomous choices conflict with the nurse’s duty to look out for the patient’s best interests. The scenario presented to me describes a conflict between a patient who refuses to bathe and a nurse whose duty is to provide the patient’s care. Because of the patient’s physical condition and inability to get out of bed‚ they require a two-person bath involving lifts. The patient refuses to bathe at the time scheduled
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Client Choice verses Client Good Ethical Dilemma Ursula Blinski 0089672 The Discipline of Professional Nursing 3 Instructor: Kim Client Choice verses Client Good Ethical Dilemma Ethical dilemmas are as common as a routine medication pass. As health care professionals‚ their goals are to promote health‚ prevent illness‚ restore health and to aid in suffering. Complex issues can arise that may conflict with one’s personal values and beliefs‚ or clients wishes may conflict
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THE IMPACT OF THE NURSING SHORTAGE The Impact of the Nursing Shortage Cori University of Phoenix Contemporary Issues and Health Policy NUR 478 Deborah W. Ayers-Facilitator Jun 21‚ 2006 The Impact of the Nursing Shortage The nursing shortage has had a cyclical pattern in the United States for many years. There have been brief periods of time with too many nurses and even longer periods with too few nurses. Previous efforts to increase the nursing population have been made in the
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Case study: an ethical dilemma involving a dying patient. Abstract Nursing often deals with ethical dilemmas in the clinical arena. A case study demonstrates an ethical dilemma faced by healthcare providers who care for and treat Jehovah ’s Witnesses who are placed in a critical situation due to medical life-threatening situations. A 20-year-old‚ pregnant‚ Black Hispanic female presented to the Emergency Department (ED) in critical condition following a single-vehicle car accident. She exhibited
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KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL:MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENT:NURSING COURSE CODE :NRSG 355 COURSE TITLE :NURSING ADMINISTRATION PRESENTED TO :MR KAILEMIA PRESENTED BY :MARGARET WANJIRU WANYIRI REGISTRATION NO:BSN-1-7130-3/2010 CASE STUDY:NURSE STAFFING PATTERNS ‚INADEQUACIES AND POSSIBLE REMEDIAL MEASURES IN NYERI PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL DUE DATE :17TH MARCH 2014 Introduction Nyeri general hospital was started in the early 1930s as a military hospital
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is not unusual for nurses to face at least one ethical dilemma per shift. Some of the hardest ethical dilemmas that a nurse will face during their nursing career are situations that go against the personal values of the nurse. The following essay will discuss such a dilemma and how the nurse uses a decision-making model to assist in resolving the ethical dilemma. In the case presented a six-year-old girl contracts meningitis and requires medical treatment. The ethical dilemma becomes apparent when
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