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rough draft for this assignment 17 years female arrives in the ER with severe bleeding from a motor vehicle accident (MVA). Her parents are Jehovah's Witnesses and have refused any blood products for her. Her injuries could be fatal if she doesn’t receive any blood. Once you have selected a scenario: Introduce the concept of ethics with purpose statement Analyze the scenario using the ethical decision-making model Integrate ethical principles and process using concepts from Black text AND ANA Code of Ethics text Identify current research (last 5 years) that is useful for assisting nurses when handling ethical dilemmas, using at least one journal article. Use scholarly APA format with title and reference page. Use correct grammar and punctuation with clear and organized writing (not written in first person). Your assignment should be approximately 3-5 pages in length.
It is very important for the healthcare provider to provide care which is culturally appropriate for the patient and this is the most difficult part too . Like in the case discussed above as the family belong to Jehovah's ,their culture does not accept blood transfusions in medical care . And the patient needs blood transfusion to save her life . Now the healthcare workers are in ethical delimma about what to do for the patient.
Ethical decision making process includes the following steps :-
1. identify the ethical dilemma or problem
( To provide blood or not )
2. gather the facts
( Facts about their culture , patients hemodynamic condition )
3. List the options/alternatives
( What other options are available other than blood transfusion or any alternative solution for their cultural belief)
4. apply ethical principles to the options
( Ethical principle - Beneficence and Non - malificence )
5. choose best option and implement the decision
(Blood transfusion in this case , making them understand the importance of it )
6.evaluate
( Evaluation of the implementation )