I need help regrading an ethics opinion piece!

[misyan]

Hi, I am sure many of you has read the thread about a nursing students expelled from school because she posted a picture of her with a patient`s placenta and uploaded it on facebook. Our ethics prof has required us to write a short paper on it. The topic is if you think the measures taken in this case were appropriate? Why or why not? I have been trying to come up with a legitmate argument all day. Since I am not supposed to discuss any idea from the legal prescriptive, all I could think of is that the nurse did not get any informed consent when she took the picture, and therefore has violated the patient`s right to privacy(from a normative ethics prospective). I am starting to think my argument is seriously flawed considering the placenta is an unidentified organ. So right now I am clueless and need some ideas as to how to approach this from the consent and privacy issue. Thanks!

[dishes, BSN, RN]

If nursing students taking a picture of a placenta after being granted permission by their nursing instructor is unprofessional response on the students part, how is the administrator expelling the students without a hearing a professional response? Two wrongs don't make a right.

dishes

[Old.Timer]

If you use your employer's policies and procedures and/or the law (be if federal or state) as your moral guide through nursing, you will be nothing more than a warm body as a nurse. You will never reach the heights of nursing performance our patients need from us. .

Well said !!

[eriksoln, BSN, RN]

If nursing students taking a picture of a placenta after being granted permission by their nursing instructor is unprofessional response on the students part, how is the administrator expelling the students without a hearing a professional response? Two wrongs don't make a right.

dishes

I wasn't aware it took a court hearing to suspend/expell from schools now. Is there some new law? Unless said suspension/expulsion is done soley for race/religeon/gender/age..........no crime.

"Two wrongs don't make a right". Thats the mantra of criminals and drug addicts desperate to excuse their behaviors. Don't go that route in life. "Your honor, I know breaking into that store was wrong, but they were supposed to be open and weren't. Two wrongs don't make a right". Neither does one excuse the other. Especially when, in this case, there was only one wrong.