Linking Ethical Principles With Community Practice
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Mary Ellen Trail Ross
- Source
- Journal of Community Health Nursing. 10:233-239
- Subject
- Moral Obligations
Decision Making
Nurse's Role
Resource Allocation
Task (project management)
Resource (project management)
Nursing
Ethics, Nursing
Humans
Medicine
Disabled Persons
Community and Home Care
business.industry
Cerebral Palsy
Beneficence
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Middle Aged
Community Health Nursing
Dilemma
Wheelchairs
Ethical dilemma
Community health
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY
Community practice
Resource allocation
Female
Engineering ethics
Ethical Theory
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1532-7655
0737-0016
Nurses must frequently make arduous decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas that occur in clinical practice. Utilizing ethical principles for analyzing and reflecting on the issues may ease this difficult task. In addition, the nurse involved may experience less anxiety and uncertainty over whether or not the correct decision was made. The purpose of this article is to present a case study that involves the allocation of a scarce resource that posed an ethical dilemma for a nursing instructor and her students in a community health setting. Toulmin's framework is utilized for analyzing this dilemma.