Nurses are under an ethical obligation to contact directly with patients and other people in the hospital. Furthermore, while working with patients, nurses face difficult issues whereby they rely on the professional ethics that can assist them in finding appropriate solutions. Relying on the experience, a clinical specialist from the American Association of College Nursing, […] Read more >>
Ethical dilemmas tend to appear in any medical profession. According to Allen (2018), for a situation to be regarded as an ethical dilemma, it has to meet three criteria. First, it is not the individual being affected directly by the consequences of the decision made by other person: an agent takes up the mandate of […] Read more >>
Daily nursing practice implies many challenges, including the need to make decisions from an ethical point of view. One of the most problematic issues is whether the medical staff should consider the decision of the patient who refuses to take further treatment even if this may lead to the patient’s death or the treatment should […] Read more >>
The patient’s request to stop cancer treatment is a morally difficult issue from the point of a healthcare practitioner since it represents a specific ethical dilemma. The basis for the dilemma is a need to balance the principle of respect to patient’s autonomy and practitioner’s professional obligation to provide the best possible level of treatment […] Read more >>
In the medical profession, there are work-related scenarios that create paradoxes that cannot be easily solved through ethical means. Ethics is a code of morals governing a particular career, while ethical reasoning refers to a professional’s ability to solve ethical issues through rationalization while carrying out their day-to-day duties (Dutelle & Taylor, 2018; Navari, 2013). […] Read more >>
The case scenario of this class considers Mrs. W. who is a 59-year-old Asian female. She came to the office for a planned three-month follow-up visit for her diagnosed knee arthritis. The patient reports less pain and increased mobility; it is a sign of the improvement of the right knee condition that was diagnosed with […] Read more >>
The behavioral system model (BSM) generated by Dorothy Johnson in 1968 intended to develop effective and efficient behavioral functioning in the patient to curb sickness. Ghanbari and Pouy (2018) observe that the behavioral theory was influenced by Nightingale’s opinion, which highlighted that nurses should help people prevent diseases and concentrate on the patient (p. 632). […] Read more >>
Taking care of the elderly population is one of the duties of society including family members, professional nurses, and other healthcare professionals. People aged 65 and more often suffer from specific diseases and serious health issues. The risk of falls is among the most widespread problems that elderly people face. There is a number of […] Read more >>
There is a growing awareness of the need to improve quality across healthcare and general practice in Pennsylvania prisons. The whole prison system was indefinitely blocked after five employees from the Albion State Correctional Institution had been rushed to a hospital after exposure to unknown tainted drugs suspected to be synthetic ones (Paul, 2018). Considering […] Read more >>
Name: D.L. Date: 12/10/2018 Sex: Female Age/DOB/ Place of Birth: 2 y/o, 12/10/2016, New Jersey SUBJECTIVE CC: D.L., a 2-year-old infant, appeared in the clinic on the grounds that she was sick. Her father made complaints, “My daughter vomits and also has a fever for the past 8 hours.” You may find this article Nursing SOAP Note Writing […] Read more >>
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