Module 3 | The Moral Spectator
Overview
The nurse is often a moral spectator, observing decisions made by others and dealing with the patient’s response to those decisions.
Select an article about a situation where a decision by a physician, insurance company, government agency, or health institution adversely affected a patient or countermanded a patient’s wishes. It is recommended that you utilize the LIRN Library when conducting research for this paper. You can access the LIRN Library in your Canvas navigation bar.
Write a 2- to 3-page paper analyzing this article and considering the following.
The nurse’s role in affirming the patient’s wishes and risks involved
The social and economic consequences of reversing this decision
Guidance from the Code of Ethic for Nurses that sheds light on this situation
The lessons to be learned for similar future situations
The moral residue that haunts the nurse
Provide a bibliography of at least three references. The first should be the citation for the article you selected, and another is the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
