Question

A newly hired nurse is being given orientation and training in the hospital by a senior member of the nursing staff. Assigned to a medical -surgical unit the nurse receives instructions on procedures. The nurse is instructed to "push Heparin IV" through a tube in the person's arm. The nurse when being trained in nursing program was instructed not to do so such a thing as it could have serious consequences. When the newly hired questioned the procedure that nurse was told by the senior nurse: "Look that is how we do it here, missy. We are understaffed and do not have the time to do it intravenously. If you want to work here that is how you will do it too." What should the response of the new nurse be to this situation? Why? How would someone respond to this situation using the ethical principles of: (Respond using the principles of the ethical tradition for your group Your group is assigned according the letter that starts your last name) H-L 1. an egoist M-Q 2. a rule utilitarian R- T 3. a Kantian U-Z 4. a Natural Law theorist A-G 5. a Rawlsian?

Answer 1

Explanation:

NLT

Since the training nurse is a licensed health professional she can not by law, push the heparin the way the instructor wants her to. The instructor is already in violation by telling her what she did and could/should lose her license.

I would not push the heparin and go straight to a supervisor. My license are in jeopardy and I dont want to lose them. The patients life is in jeopardy as well if this is how the facility is medicating their patients, and not following procedures.