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humphriesbr@me.com · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

An ethical conflict exists around a female client's expressed desire to have a neighbor make her treatment decisions. This neighbor is an individual who the client's children characterize as a predator.

Place in the correct order the steps that the nurse should follow in resolving this ethical conflict.
1. Clearly identify the ethical problem
2. Apply ethical principles to the situation
3. Identify the different options
4. Gather relevant data about the situation
5. Make and evaluate a decision

A) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
B) 4, 1, 3, 2, 5
C) 2, 3, 4, 1, 5
D) 1, 4, 3, 2, 5

Question 2

A nurse has had, on several occasions, the opportunity to share personal prescriptions with family members when they were in need of pain medication or antibiotics. Which set of rules should govern this moral decision?

A) Ethics
B) Administrative law
C) Common law
D) Civil law

meow1234 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans: B
The nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation can be applied to appropriately respond to many ethical dilemmas.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: A
Although all of the options may affect your decision, moral decisions are guided by ethics, which are internal set of principles and values that guide the behavior of a person. Sharing medications prescribed to you with other people, including family members, would be considered unethical. It is important to distinguish ethics from law, religion, custom, and institutional practices. For example, the fact that an action is legal or customary does not in itself make the action ethically or morally right.