Ethical Dilemma in Nursing Practice

Running head: NURSING
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

NURSING1
Answer 1.
Nursing is a noble practice. Nurses have the role of taking care of patient and
contribute in the patient’s recovery. Nurses have an ethical duty of taking care all their
patients and keep them safe. However, sometimes, due to heavy patients load in the hospital
nurses tend to find herself in an ethical dilemma situation where one cannot provide the
required time to a particular patient and cannot handle the patients load. This can be an
ethical dilemma for one nurse but cannot be the same for another. The latter must have the
ability to handle all patients correctly, giving them equal treatment. Therefore, an ethical
dilemma can be defined as a decision-making issue that occurs due to two possible moral
values in which neither of them can be chosen unambiguously.Nurses sometimes also have to
challenge the physicians prescribed medications in case of the latter’s wrong diagnosis.it is
the duty of the nurses to provide safe treatment and right medications to their patients in order
to quicken their recovery. In some cases it is seen that the physician itself prescribes a wrong
medication and then some nurses find themselves in the state of an ethical dilemma whether
to challenge the physician or not, whereas other nurses have the guts to challenge the
physician and protect their patient(Kolić, 2017).
In my nursing career, I faced a situation where I found myself in an ethical dilemma
situation. I was serving patients in my hospital for the last one year and I was associated in
the childcare unit. I loved taking care of children and used to have a great rapport with them.
All of my patients there became my friends and I was very comfortable working there.
Suddenly, the hospital authorities shifted me to the old age palliative care department. It was
a promotion from a junior nurse to a senior one.However, learned about this treatment
method during my student life, but never applied in a live situation. I was frightened about
the safety of those patients as I was not at all the right person to communicate them regarding