Question

Important: Interview with a Registered Nurse (supervisor, manager, or director). This assignment is about a true dilemma, not just a disagreement or a difference in opinion. If you are not able to write about a true dilemma go to second section of the homework. Please find a charge nurse, nurse manager, or director of nursing for this interview. Approach this situation with care and respect for privacy. No actual name may be used in this document. The person you are interviewing must be named “Nurse N”. The person that the interview is going to be about must be named “Person P”. “Person P” may be a vendor, patient, or a staff member. Ask “Nurse N” about a specific time that he/she had to deal with a serious ethical decision or dilemma. What type of person was the ethical issue was concerning? a) Patient b) Staff c) Vendor d) Other What was the ethical principle being violated, applied, considered, or discussed? (You may need to give hints to your interviewee.) a) _________________ Discuss how the issue was resolved a) Complete satisfaction b) Partial satisfaction c) Referred to another entity for assistance d) Still unresolved Submit the interview in a report no more than 400 words with a short introduction and to end with your point of view about the whole issue.

Answer 1

The person P is a family member and the nurse N is the incharge of emergency department.

She has faced serious ethical dilemmas in emergency situation during triaging . She has explained about a emergency situation where a young girl 26year came with motor vehicle accident and an elderly man 78years came with stroke attack at the same time when there was only one bed left in the whole emergency . Now the ethical dilemma was on Prioritization and provision of care . According to triaging , the girls has more priority because she has long years to live and the elderly is at his end stages of life but the dilemma was is this justified . Ethical principle justice of treating everyone equally is being denied here for the elderly man ,was that ok ethically .This was the ethical dilemma.for the incharge nurse N .

#. The type of person ,the ethical issue was concerning is the elderly patient

#. Yes, the ethical principle was being violated, the ethical principle of justice was being violated.

#. The issue is Still unresolved as it's a part of traiging.