Normative Ethical
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According to the information provided in this
article, it is crucial for a nurse to make wise decisions and to consider all
ethical and moral issues while dealing with a large number of patients. It is a
common observation that patients feel stressed, depressed and tired whenever
they are asked to readmit to another hospital. It becomes the responsibility of
the healthcare officers to provide the utmost care and all treatment options to
patients under one roof so that they do not have to move from one hospital to
another in order to receive proper and timely treatment. It often happens in
hospitals and clinics where the staff wants to take maximum advantages. They
provide written and verbal instructions to patients and refer them to expensive
healthcare centers, claiming that the treatment provided there is up to the
mark. A large number of cases of prescheduled appointments have also been
reported alone in the United States. If patients call their respective nurses,
they do not attend them quickly and instead encourage them to readmit to
another healthcare setting. Measures need to be taken in this regard, and the
government should cancel the license of medical professionals who encourage
patients or their family members to readmit to another place. It is simply
against the ethical and moral values, and nurses, doctors, and other staff
should take a stand in order to be able to provide patients with timely
treatment and best medications so that they recover from the illness at a fast
speed. For this purpose, the discharge summary should be submitted to the
hospital manager once or twice a day so that they can take a look at the list
of patients who have been discharged on that particular day and the reason
behind this decision. If they find a doctor or nurse to be involved in
unethical activities, they should immediately terminate them or can warn them
so that the hospital’s environment is made more and more friendly and
sustainable for patients and their family members.
Thiele, T., & Dunsford, J.
(2017). Nurse Leaders’ Role in Medical Assistance in Dying: A Relational Ethics
Approach. Nursing Ethics, 096973301773068.
doi:10.1177/0969733017730684
Tracy Thiele and Jennifer Dunsford write in
this article that nurses should be able to provide quick and best treatment
options to patients even when a doctor or senior nurse is not around. This is
because patients depend on them for their treatment and recovery from the
illness, and if nurses neglect or ignore them, then it may not be possible for
the hospital management to maintain their reputation for long. The chance is
that government representatives or officers from the healthcare department will
take serious action against them. With time, patients and their family members
have lost their trust in nurses and other staff, which is due to their
involvement in unethical and immoral activities. It not only impacts the health
of patients but also causes depression, stress, and anxiety in them as well as
in their family members. Thus, there is a strong need to improve the way
patients are treated and dealt with in a hospital or clinic, and they should be
given multiple options of payment so that they do not feel sad before, during
or after the treatment.
