Ethics Assignment
Instructions: Reflect on your own experience(s) in nursing by answering the following questions. You may use the table below to answer each question or you may choose to submit a single narrative addressing all four categories below. You may present a hypothetical case if you do not have a personal example.
Criterion
Your Responses
Points
Describe a time in your clinical practice/nursing experience when you faced or observed a colleague face an ethical dilemma.
What happened?
Who was involved?
Why did you feel this was a dilemma? (hint choice between two undesirable outcomes)
2
What ethical principle (s) in the Belmont report relate to the ethical dilemma you describe above? E.g., How does the situation you describe relate to the principle (s)?
2
What could be done in the situation you described to preserve the patient/family/population/community rights? (hint what model or example of ethical decision making applies in this situation?)
2
How could you as the RN advocate for the best interest of anyone involved in the situation you describe? What would you do in the future if faced with a similar situation? (hint what nursing professional code of ethics apply to the situation)
2
What is Informed Consent and Institutional Review Board (IRB)? Why are they important in nursing research?
2
Total Points
10
