Morality for today's nurses
Analyze the MORAL model as a useful tool for ethical decision making.
The MORAL model is an extremely useful tool for ethical decision making. In fact, it is somewhat of a relief to realize that there are tools that help one to objectively evaluate an ethical situation. Oftentimes, ethics seems so subjective. Therefore, the MORAL model is a welcome addition to nurses as well as to everyday people who simply need help objectively examining an ethical situation.
On the one hand, this model is valuable because it causes nurses to examine a situation holistically. Specifically, the first step of the model (massage the situation) involves nurses examining a particular situation from a variety of lenses. Doing so is pivotal to understanding what is truly at stake and for whom it is at stake. The variation of the different perspectives with which a nurse views a situation then becomes the basis for the next step, determining viable options. However, what is perhaps even more beneficial is the next phase of the model in which the nurse comes up with the best and worst case scenarios for each of the options. Again, this step is contextualized within...
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Guido, G. (2014). Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing (6th ed.). Pearson, Boston, MA
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