Struggle in Nursing

Struggle in Nursing
A hospital's main goal is to make people healthy. Their first priority is the patient, however, where does the line get drawn between patient and their family? When a situation ends in a way that would cause distress to anyone involved, their job should be to evaluate the situation and see if there is any flaw that could be fixed in order to prevent this situation from happening again. We see all parts of this exercised on Nurse.com;[i] including the nurses and the directors of various fields. In doing so, the people involved, brought about an evolution of moral responsibility in clinical practice.

Before this evolution, a hospital had strict rules and regulations in place that restricted the comfort and the accommodating atmosphere of the hospital. If in some occasion they were broken, the entire situation would be better for all parties; the nurses, the surgeons, physicians, directors of various fields, and patients. The hospital staff's hands would be tied, they wouldn't be able to make the choices which would benefit the patients and their families the best. Fortunately, today the hospital staff can make those decisions and lighten a situation that would previous to the shift be a dark one. We will take a look at the evolution of moral responsibility in clinical practice by seeing through the eyes of the surgical liaison, director of ethics, a patient and an incident that happened at Boston Children's Hospital. A surgical liaison found herself caught in a dilemma between doing what is best for her patient and following the relentless rules of her operating room.

A nurse's job includes duties extending far past that which are laid out in the job description.   They will be put in a situation that will force them to take an ethical side to stand on; between the responsibilities to their patients, physician, hospitals, and their units. At Boston Children's Hospital, a surgical liaison was put in a situation where she was forced, by the...