Help Me Write My Ethics Paper =) By Giving Me Stories About Your Ethical Conflicts!!

Here's a question for you. Are you supposed to interview a nurse or come up with your own ethical dilemma. You can do what I'm sure the a lot of us did in school...make it up. Tell the professors what they want to hear. Good luck.

I did this same assignment in an ethics class for pre-reqs. I had no problem making it all up myself.

Didn't we just do this? I seem to remember being chastised in this thread for seconding the suggestion of looking in nursing journals.

Didn't we just do this? I seem to remember being chastised in this thread for seconding the suggestion of looking in nursing journals.

She is in my class haha

Ethical dilemma

Do a nursing student's homework on allnurses.com or suggest she go and do the interview the way her instructor asked her to. I am an instructor and if I made out an assignment to interview a nurse, I would hope that nurse would actually be interviewed.

She is in my class haha

Ah, so both of you are a bunch of slackers! :)

rofl at this. Not only at the OP but the suggestions to make up the whole paper. I know this is not the exact definition of Irony, but this is certainly in the arena.

Also a little sad and telling.

No, i am supposed to interview a nurse, by telephone,e-mail, or in person then use her ethical dilema and apply it to the concepts i'm learning in class. then determine if I agree with the nurse on her decision and if not then explain what i would have done differently in the given situation. So if you are a nurse and have witnesses or experienced an ethical dilema in your hospital and can give answer my questions it would be helpful, if not then don't comment on my post.

How do you know any of us are actually nurses? I don't think a bunch of strangers on the internet are the best pool from which to draw your interview.

these are the types of moral conflicts, if you could take 10 minutes of your time and answer the 5 questions below it would greatly help me write my paper in nursing ethics class!

moral uncertainty-sense a moral problem exists but unsure what values or principles apply or what the problem is.

moral dilemma-state in which two or more values or principles are applicable but support mutually exclusive courses of action.

moral distress -state in which one is clear as to the right choice but external constraints make one unable to act in accord with that choice.

moral outrage-situation in which another person engages in an action the nurse believes to be morally wrong. (the nurse is not involved in the situation)

1.your name, and type of nurse

ukstudent, this is the internet and will not use my real name. you can make any name up that you want to. i am a surgical icu nurse in a level 1 trauma center.

2. please describe an ethical conflict situation in nursing practice that you have encountered.

pt post cabg x 5 with multiple complications. after several weeks in the icu had been trached and pegged, still on and off pressors for multiple rounds of sepsis, sternum removed, flap done. pt begged me to "please stop and let me die."

3. how did you deal with that ethical conflict?how it was resolved? and what personal values were involved?

called the ethics panel. it was not resolved, the pt did not have advance directives and the family wanted every thing done. the value of self determination. the pt was not allowed to stop medical care.

4. were you satisfied with how the ethical conflict was resolved?

no.

5. did you refer to the code of ethics for nurses in dealing with the conflict?

no, as a working nurse you get to refine what to you is right and wrong. we all draw a line some were and for each of us, it is a different line. i still remember the look in this eyes, the silent tears running down his face as he realized that none of us would stop and let him go. the loss of internal light in his eyes over the following weeks as interventions continued, until he coded and we couldn't get him back. yes, cpr was done as the family still wanted everything done.