Question

Case Scenario 1:

Dr. P. refuses to care for patients who have signed DNR orders because he perceives caring for them as a risk for a lawsuit.

Question 1: Is Dr. P’s ethical reasoning acceptable in this instance? Why or why not?

Case Scenario 2:

One weekend, a nursing supervisor of a large hospital discovered that the intensive care unit (ICU) was seriously understaffed. She pulled two nurses with previous ICU experience off other floors to assure adequate care. On the following Monday, Dr. J., director of the ICU, closed the unit for further admissions until a permanent staffing solution was developed.

Question 2: Does this situation warrant public denunciation (whistle-blowing)? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Case 1:

DNR (Do not Resuscitate) refers to detaining any intense medical treatment to a patient.Here the basic care or given but when a patient losses function of vital organs like heart and lung are legally not supposed to care for because it is an already consented case for not to resuscitate and revive life when arrest happens.The physician has refused to care it means do not treat. This is not ethically acceptable where patientin these scenarios has to be treated

Case 2:

This act warrants a whistle-blowing state becsuse this decision by the director can affect the admission of critical patients who are in need of intense care.This has to be addressed immediately by increasing the staff count and maintain the open bed for new cases to prevent morbidity and mortality rates.