Health Care Ethical Dilemmas

Today's health care environment gives nurses many reasons to be conflicted. Genetic testing, abortion, and end of life care are just some of the areas
in which nurses may face ethical dilemmas.
Consider how you feel about all of the following issues: Respecting the wishes of a suffering client that he is permitted to die with dignity, Respecting
the health surrogate's wishes regarding termination of life support, Or even observing another nurse take two tablets of oxycodone as ordered but
keeping one for herself.
Then research an example of an ethical dilemma you may be confronted with in a hospital clinical experience or workplace. How will you come to a
decision to resolve the dilemma? What feelings might you experience while coming to the selected decision?