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Ethical Challenge Faced by the Nurses Article

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Ethical Challenge Faced by the Nurses Article

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Running head: OPINION EDITORIAL ARTICLEOpinion editorial articleName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
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1OPINION EDITORIAL ARTICLEIn the recent years, nurses face ethical dilemmas regarding the treatment and access tocare, end-of-life care, palliative and treatment of vulnerable populations in the present clinicalscenario. The most significant ethical challenge faced by the nurses is “respect for autonomy vsbeneficence” (Oh & Gastmans, 2015). Although the patient has the right to refusal to treatment,he or she does not have any right to demand any kind of treatment. As a nurse, one has no dutyto offer inappropriate medical treatment to patients and ethical principle that takes prioritydepends on the medical case. This stark finding is serving as reminders for nurses in our community, locality andglobally. My research focus is on the ethical dilemma and moral distress; the worrying fact is thedebate that arises when the nurses are unclear about right thing that they should do or can viewwhat should be done, however, unable to do it (Johnstone & Hutchinson, 2015). In an ethical scenario, a patient was experiencing AIDS complications likecytomegalovirus retinitis, gastrointestinal and pulmonary tuberculosis and central nervoustoxoplasmosis. The patient was in full control of faculties; however, he required frequenthospitalizations and dependent for activities of daily living. Now, the patient agreed to take theprescribed medications, however refused for antiretroviral therapy (ART) as he believes that itwould reveal AIDS diagnosis to his family. The patient directly said that he would rather die than confessing the AIDS to his family.I feel the patient will die of AIDS complications if ART does not begin soon. My response tothis scenario is qualified yes, as we have an ethical obligation to treat his complications of AIDS.Some researchers can argue that patient’s unreasonable refusal to ART has put the hospital in anethical bind and nurses should not be manipulated that end up delivering inadequate treatment
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