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Hi everybody, I am still a nursing student and have encountered a big ethical issue in placement. The ward got an elderly lady about 80 who just went for hip replacement, she was also depressed and bereaved due to her daughter dying last week due to cancer. I tried my best to make her smile because she cried a lot. It was all okay until we spotted that she had moved her bowels and I could smell urine. When we tried to re position her to clean her, she kept shouting at us and said she didn't want to and that we were abusing her by forcing her to. I am aware it is our nursing duty to act beneficently and "do no harm" however I felt like we were disrespecting this lady's autonomy. I am confused what would be done in this situation because she technically lacks mental capacity, my shift finished and never got to find out what happened. I would like to know what everybody here thinks would be the ethical thing to do for this lady.