My ethical situation that I encountered was that my patient was in the hospital, l after a fall at home. They were able to operate on this patient, but while in the hospital there was a bigger concern for her health. There was the concern that this older individual was not being cared for at home. The patient also didn’t talk very much and when she came into the emergency room she was not in the state to make medical decisions for herself. This is why she was first placed on a full code status. The doctors and nurses would do anything that they could to keep this individual alive. When she later was able to be more awake and able to answer questions. She along with her family chose that she did not want all the measures to keep her alive and
