“The Top Ethical Challenges for Nurses”. In her article, Mrs. Woods gives several ethical circumstances that nurses have to go up against when dealing with a portion of their work. The ethical situations that nurses face cannot be considered as Debra states “the right thing” which causes them to have moral stress. She introduces a quote that was mentioned by Mary K. Watson
(a MSN, MBE, RN at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania) where she asserts that it is hard for nurses having to balance the observing of their patient’s agony versus the benefits and the difficult decisions that can be made for special medical treatments. Also, Mrs. Watson …show more content…
These dilemmas can only bring more suffering upon the
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nurses because they are aware that their patients and families were not informed of the treatment options as well as their clinical prognosis. Connie M. Ulrich an associate professor of bioethics and nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia defines the issue of moral distress as nurses who are well associated with the correct course of action but cannot proceed considering the organizational environment that they are associated with. Mrs. Ulrich announces that there has been an increase of death issues but the ethical dilemmas are occurring each day as time passes when taking care of patients. The American Nurses Association (ANA) outlook on ethics and human rights can benefit nurses by conducting them to face their ethical challenges. Martha Turner, a (assistant director of
ANA’s Center for Ethics and Human Rights), announced that the Work environment, integrating
Genomics and Genetics, and end-of-life issues and palliative care round out the top three nurses reports of nurses ethical challenges. The Work Environment consist of asserting each