Nursing Ethical Dilemmas

challenges they may face during and after their illness. Patients often have questions and might be confused about all that is happening to them. As a teacher, the nurse may also need to instruct family members about how they can help a patient. In addition, instructions about what to do once they are not in a hospital setting, are important so that a patient can take care for themselves when they are home. There is also challenges that come with being a nurse, it is called consent and capacity. Incompetent, disorientated patients neither have the correct mindset to decide what treatment is best for them, they also aren’t in a state of understanding the effects of their treatment. This is another ethical issue coming from the conflict of patient's …show more content…
However, this law of autonomy causes problems with the nursing ethic that the professional should maintain high degree of confidentiality regarding the patient's health and treatment. (https://www.buzzle.com/articles/ethical-issues-in-nursing.html)
In certain conditions, the patient and their family may not understand or be able to apply the information given from the nurse. This may unnecessarily lead to misunderstandings and panic. Although, there is no harm in informing most of the families, some of them are untold for the sake of the patient. Oftentimes, some patients want to receive the same treatment for the similar condition repeatedly. They end up getting admitted in different hospitals for the same condition, without much improvement in health. If this happens more often, these treatments options are required at the cost of taxpayers' money. Counseling the patient about a particular treatment would not be a problem, since every patient has a right to receive the best possible treatment for him. However, when the practitioner finds out that the issue is self-induced, his personal opinion may cloud his judgment regarding the treatment given to