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moral distress question for patient wishes are not followed for 32 year old Freda with advanced...
moral distress question for patient wishes are not followed for 32 year old Freda with advanced multiple scelrosis.
1. what factors about Freda's case led to ethical distress on the part of the long term care facility staff?
2. what information do you have that would lead you to believe that the patient has decisional capacity?
3. what ethical prinicples, vitues or consequences do you think play a role in the patients suffering, the physician's acquiescence and the staff's ethhical distress
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Nightingale answered 2 years agoRelated Solutions
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