Question

Interview with a Registered Nurse (supervisor, manager, or director)
Please find a charge nurse, nurse manager, or director of nursing for this interview. 
Approach this situation with care and respect for privacy. No actual name may be used in this document. 
The person you are interviewing must be named “Nurse N”. The person that the interview is going to be about must be named “Person P”. 
“Person P” may be a vendor, patient, or a staff member.
Ask “Nurse N” about a specific time that he/she had to deal with a serious ethical decision or dilemma. 
What type of person was the ethical issue was concerning? 
a) Patient
b) Staff
c) Vendor
d) Other 
What was the ethical principle being violated, applied, considered, or discussed?
(You may need to give hints to your interviewee.)
a) _________________ 
How was the issue resolved?
a) Complete satisfaction
b) Partial satisfaction
c) Referred to another entity for assistance
d) Still unresolved
Submit the interview in a report no more than 400 words with a short introduction and to end with your point of view about the whole issue..

Answer 1

The serious ethical dilemma faced by the nurse is decision making in emergency situations based on triage . According to triage , patients who are more sick are cared first . For example - two patients one a young boy and second a elder uncle came simultaneously . Both are sick , but according to traige , emergency services to the young boy is provided first because in emergency services are provided to those whose chances of survival is more because spending time and usuage of resources on a patient whose outcome is poor is a wastage. The nurse is having ethical delimma regarding justice and equal treatment that has to be maintained while providing care to all the patients .

1. The type of person , the ethical issue was concerning is Patient.

2. Ethical principle that has been violated is justice .

3. The issue is resolved by complete satisfaction by understanding the traige system .