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Nursing Ethics

Running Head : Nursing Ethics

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Date Anyone suffering from Rheumatoid arthritis seems to be partially paralyzed because the disease affects their joints making them swell and became stiff . The person is usually in a lot of pain , has a fever and feels sick and tired at all times . Rectal hemorrhage is a disease that affects the rectal system of a human being causing it to bleed . Symptoms for the disease are presence of blood in the stool

Bowel obstruction is damage to the intestine hindering

the digestion process , passage of the intestinal wastage accompanied by bloating of the lower abdomen , abdominal pain , vomiting , dehydration due to vomiting and constipation . From the above it is clear that Angela is suffering and as more time is wasted her condition becomes complicated as one disease leads to another . Surgery may solve her problems but leave her with complications that will make her life miserable or the doctors may let her die a natural death and rescue her from this misery as her granddaughter suggests . I would rather do everything I can to save her life and if she dies in the process let it be , than do nothing and later question my conscience . No medicine practitioner can decide the fate of Angela , the code of ethics of registered nurses will be used to lay guidelines to such a case (McCormick and Min 1994

Ethics are solutions to any conflicting matter , which give principles that enable one to solve the matter...

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