Question

Analyzing an ethical dilemma.

You are transplant nurse coordinator, thinking about two patients who are being evaluated for placement on the kidney transplant waiting list. One patient is a 40-yr-old African American schoolteacher. She is married and has two children. The other patient is a 22-yr-old unemployed white man. He misses three or four dialysis treatments per month and does not take his antihypertensive medications consistently.

Address the questions below:

1. Which ethical principles and values apply to this case; which ethical principles are in conflict?
2. What which of the patients should receive the next available kidney transplant? Defend your answer using the steps of the decision-making model. Address each level of the decision-making model. Identify other information that might help you make a decision.

Answer 1

1. when considering the race, survival rate is more in white compared to African American client. This is actually a conflict in terms of race. Nurse coordinator will consider white man for the kidney transplant waiting list.

decision making model

1.The client age is 22

He is a white man having chronic kidney disease, hypertensive and not taking medicines correctly.

he is more in need for kidney transplant and also it is considered that he have more survival rate

He is so considered in the waiting list