Explore Nursing Leadership And Nursing Ethics In The Context Of Rationing Nursing

With the increasing health care costs, there is a need to balance and improve the patients’ clinical needs and health care facilities’ fiscal sustainability (Allen & Spitzer, 2015). To accomplish this, the nursing leader’s first priority is to determine the patients’ health care needs and values (Dunham_Taylor & Pinczuk, 2015), taking into consideration the value for the dollar in terms of ethics, relevance of services, quality and patient safety (Curtin, 2000). This must be balanced with an in depth analysis of clinical judgement issues in prioritizing care and implementing health care interventions . The purpose of this paper is to explore nursing leadership and nursing ethics in the context of rationing nursing care.