The hospital administration asks nursing services to assume housekeeping duties from midnight until 6:00 a.m.
Nurses are fearful that this is the first step to shifting complete 24-hour-per-day responsibility for housekeeping duties to nursing services. The nurses believe this would take away from their ability to provide quality nursing care to their patients. This scenario is an example of which ethical concept? 1. The MORAL argument
2. Slippery slope thinking
3. Relevance thinking
4. Reluctance model
The nurse uses the MORAL model for ethical decision making at the bedside. Which option reflects the first step (M) of this model?
1. The nurse investigates the opinions of everyone involved in the issue.
2. The nurse evaluates the situation after an intervention is implemented.
3. The nurse implements an intervention and thinks about its impact.
4. The nurse considers the benefits and risks of possible solutions to the problem.
A nurse manager has started a dialogue regarding the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements among staff nurses.
Which staff nurse statements would the manager evaluate as indicating poor understanding of this document? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Select all that apply.
1. This document describes nursing's own understanding of its commitments to society.
2. This document is so out of date, they never revise it.
3. At least the ANA understood that professional ethics are different in different regions of the country.
4. It is interesting that the ANA first addressed this code over 50 years ago.
5. This document has established standards by which we should practice.
The nurse intends to lobby the state legislature to write a new code of ethics for the nurses in the state. Is this an appropriate idea?
1. No, federal lawmakers have jurisdiction over codes of ethics.
2. No, the code of ethics is the product of hospital associations across the nation.
3. No, professional nursing organizations write the code of ethics for nurses.
4. Yes, the code of ethics is written and published by individual state legislatures.
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