- Provide care as usual, ensuring confidentiality.
- Discreetly switch assignments with a colleague if possible, or inform the charge nurse of the potential conflict of interest.
- Prioritize the friendship over professional duties.
- Only care for the friend during minimal contact.
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- Fidelity to colleague
- Professional loyalty
- Accountability
- Confidentiality
- Force the patient to mobilize to prevent complications.
- Leave the patient alone to rest.
- Continue to encourage and educate, assess for barriers to mobilization, and respect the patient's autonomy while documenting non-compliance and risks.
- Call the family to persuade the patient.
- Continue the procedure quickly to minimize risk.
- Pause the procedure, obtain the necessary sterile equipment, and ensure patient safety even if it causes a delay.
- Blame the supply chain department.
- Use an alternative non-sterile item.
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Justice
- Accuse the previous nurse of negligence.
- Document findings accurately and report concerns through appropriate channels (e.g., charge nurse, patient safety committee).
- Correct the previous nurse's documentation to make it appear complete.
- Immediately inform the patient's family about the suspected negligence.
- Allow the family to continue, respecting their beliefs.
- Discourage the family from using the herbal remedy without explanation.
- Educate the family about potential interactions, document the use of the herbal remedy, and inform the medical team to ensure patient safety.
- Ignore it, as it's a family matter.
- Use the technology anyway and hope for the best.
- Refuse to use the technology completely.
- Decline to use the technology until proper training is provided, and seek supervision or assistance from a trained colleague.
- Learn on the job by trial and error.
- Informed consent
- Research ethics
- Distributive justice
- Confidentiality
- Leave the incomplete instructions for the next shift.
- Rush through the instructions and assume the patient will understand.
- Take the necessary time to ensure clear and complete discharge instructions are provided and understood by the patient or caregiver.
- Advise the patient to call the hospital if they have questions later.
- Confidentiality
- Professional boundaries
- Veracity
- Autonomy
- Side with the majority of the family.
- Follow the wishes of the most vocal family member.
- Support and adhere to the decisions made by the legally designated surrogate decision-maker.
- Make decisions based on what the nurse believes is best.
- Immediately intervene to protect the patient and report the incident through official channels.
- Ignore the incident to avoid conflict.
- Wait until the colleague finishes and then offer support to the patient.
- Tell other colleagues about what happened.
- Non-maleficence
- Veracity
- Fidelity
- Justice
- Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Justice
- Coercing the patient to participate for the benefit of science.
- Providing only positive information about the drug.
- Explaining the study purpose, risks, benefits, alternatives, and right to withdraw without penalty, ensuring understanding.
- Minimizing the risks to encourage participation.
- Beneficence
- Non-maleficence
- Confidentiality
- Justice
- Deontology
- Utilitarianism
- Principlism
- Virtue Ethics
- Keep it, as it was clearly forgotten.
- Distribute it among the nursing staff.
- Report the finding to the hospital administration and follow established procedures for lost and found items.
- Donate it to a charity.
