A nurse is ambivalent about performing vigorous suctioning in a terminally ill client in a comatose ...

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The first step in processing an ethical dilemma is determining whether the problem is an ethical one. The nurse who cannot figure out what is right is stating a characteristic of an ethical dilem-ma, which is that the problem is perplexing. The next step is to gather as much relevant infor-mation as possible.
The nurse who wants to know the legalities of the living will of a client is collecting some, but not all, data pertaining to the problem.
The statement My spiritual beliefs mandate that I continue to provide all the interventions within my scope of practice. describes the nurse's own beliefs.
The nurse is describing the problem in terms of her feelings.