Ethical Perspectives
Ethical decision making is a method that is utilized by most of the health care professionals all over the world. The principles of beneficence and autonomy are very crucial when it comes to carefully guiding the decision making process. A nurse needs to understand that the importance of these principles and thus use these principles for the patient's benefit. Chally and Loriz (1998) and Kolouroutis and Thorstenson (1999) have stressed on the relevance of nurses using this model to guide their practice and thus make decisions accordingly.
Being careful of a patient's autonomy means that the nurse is able to respect and understand that the patient has all the rights to make a decision about the care and treatment that the patient receives. (Mappes & DeGrazia, 2006) It is true that the patient may not have enough medical insight as the nurse and he may even make the wrong decision. Regardless, patient's decision has more weightage than the nurse's opinion and the nurse needs to respect that. If the patient is competent medically and is sane, then he can make personal decisions even if the decision is to refuse the treatment that he is getting. (Parker, 2007)
Beneficence means that the health care provider should work to do good for the patient in all the situations possible (Beauchamp & Childress, 2009) In other words; their main goal should be to improve the patient's health. Every situation that the nurse gets should be dealt with differently. This is crucial because what is good for one patient is not always good for a different patient. Along with doing well for the patient, the nurse also should keep their personal wishes and their...
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