The nurse is often a moral spectator observing decisions made by others and dealing with the patient’s response to those decisions.
Analyze a scholarly article about a situation where a decision by a physician, insurance company, government agency or health institution adversely affected a patient or countermanded a patient’s wishes.
Write a mini-paper of three pages that addresses the following points:
• The nurse’s role in affirming the patient’s wishes and risks involved
• The social and economic consequences of reversing this decision
• Guidance from the Code of Ethics that sheds light on this situation
• Guidance from the Spirituality in Nursing which affects the situation
• The lessons to be learned for similar future situations
• The moral residue that haunts the nurse
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