ethical dilemma

The Ethics of Grace

Grace

Nursing does have an ethical voice but often still needs to learn to use it . However , all too often that voiced is silenced by physician other staff or the system itself . We are told that ethics comes from a group effort to understand the situation from all sides and then rendering an ethical value . Nursing so often is not able to be a part of that ethical value . Carol Gilligan would say that ethics is about the individual . This writer would say she is correct and when

it becomes about something other than the individual it is lost . This will discuss the case of Grace and the ethics involved in the case

The Case

Grace is a 48 year old female patient admitted from the nursing home post stroke and fast heart rate . Grace has an advanced directive that says she does not want to have her life prolonged and she is already on dialysis three times per week . advanced directive is a decision made by an authorized decision maker in conversation with a physician and is a legal document (Jonsen , 2006 , pg . 85 . There are different types of advance directives based on where they come from , but all should be considered the patient 's wishes (Jensen , 2006 . She has a brother and sister who come to the hospital soon after she arrives . Within a short period of time she has a code blue in which her heart stops and the cardiac surgeon does...