Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing: A Reflective Analysis

Nursing

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Ethical dilemma refers to the involvement of the need to chose one moral from choosing
more than one moral. This should be an acceptable option in course of action where one of the
choices leads to prevent selection of the other choice. This is related with delivering of
healthcare services and the healthcare premises where nursing student need to choose one ethical
value over the other. In this report, there is a discussion about ethical dilemmas which are
involved during the nursing experience. This explanation is provided through using the Gibbs
model which can help to provide a scenario of the event along with or related conditions. There
is a various ethical dilemma which includes right to privacy, confidentiality and right to inform
consent which create ethical dilemmas while delivering services to patients. This also helps to
describe analyzing and explaining the ethical dilemma which is involved during delivering of
health care services (Karakachian, (2019)).
MAIN BODY
In healthcare, many types of health-related physical devices arise in healthcare premises
for delivering better healthcare services. There is a need to evaluate this ethical dilemma for a
better choice for delivering effective health care services. There are some of ethical dilemmas
which are going to be discussed further. This creates difficulty and selecting one of the best
choices for delivering effective care and treatment to the patient.
As a newly placed nursing student in Royal hospital where I have faced different
situations related with emergency health care services. I have gained the various type of
experience which provided various experiences to face various type of situations related to
making ethical decisions. I was working in the hospital and got informed from the reception
about an emergency case of an accident. I reach and see that there is a patient is there who has a
serious head injury. There was flown-out blood from his head and needed emergency care to
save his life. Information has been shared that he was driving a sports bike which get
uncontrolled due to some reason and get smashed to the roadside. I was present at that time when
he arrived to the hospital and after observing the health scenario, I helped nursing staff to provid
emergency health services and help other nursing staff member to took him to the emergency
ward. I see that their condition was getting worse due to a large amount of blood has been flown
from his body. Senior nursing staff decided to provide him emergency care for saving his life