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Ethics Assignment

 

Instructions:  Reflect on your own experience(s) in nursing by answering the following questions.  You may use the table below to answer each question or you may choose to submit a single narrative addressing all four categories below. You may present a hypothetical case if you do not have a personal example.

 

Criterion Your Responses Points
Describe a time in your clinical practice/nursing experience when you faced or observed a colleague face an ethical dilemma.

What happened?

Who was involved?

Why did you feel this was a dilemma? (hint choice between two undesirable outcomes)

 

  2
What ethical principle (s) in the Belmont report relate to the ethical dilemma you describe above? E.g., How does the situation you describe relate to the principle (s)?

 

  2
What could be done in the situation you described to preserve the patient/family/population/community rights? (hint what model or example of ethical decision making applies in this situation?)

 

  2
How could you as the RN advocate for the best interest of anyone involved in the situation you describe?  What would you do in the future if faced with a similar situation? (hint what nursing professional code of ethics apply to the situation)

 

  2
What is Informed Consent and Institutional Review Board (IRB)? Why are they important in nursing research?   2
Total Points   10