ISSUES IN THE NURSING PROFFESSION
In today’s scope of nursing, there are many issues that nurse’s face each and every day at their job. The two most prevalent issues that exist in the hospital today are the conflicts surrounding euthanasia and problems involving relationships in the workplace. My end goal is to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist so therefore euthanasia is an important topic to me, and nurses are known to be people persons so conflict between them can result in devastating outcomes. Euthanasia is defined as an act that is performed by some healthcare professional that will ultimately result in the patient’s death. Contrary to popular belief, euthanasia is not the same thing as assisted suicide. Assisted suicide …show more content…
Euthanasia goes against the Code for Nurses and ultimately, all that nurses stand for. Nurses are supposed to provide expedient and compassionate care to their patients at all time. If a nurse chooses to take part in active euthanasia, then he or she is choosing to either administer a lethal dose of medication or withhold further treatments that will lead to a person’s death. Both of these acts are completely unethical for a nurse to take part in because it is a nurse’s job to perform duties to maintain a patient’s life, not end it. But then there is the issue of compassion; is it compassionate for a nurse to just sit back and watch a patient suffer daily from the disease or disorder that he or she has? Most people would say no. This is because it is a common belief that nurses are supposed to make patients feel comfortable during their hospital stay. But sometimes there are patients that are suffering so much that active euthanasia is the only want to cease their suffering. Regardless, euthanasia is illegal in the United States because it is looked at as murder, even though it is considered “merciful …show more content…
But the idea of “assisted-suicide” has been making its slow conversion to becoming legal since the early 1990s. Also euthanasia is beginning to become legal in other countries such as, Colombia, Netherlands, and Belgium. Therefore I believe that eventually that the euthanasia movement will take a step towards legalization in the near future. Regardless of how hard representatives of the issue on euthanasia debate the benefits of it, there will always be people who oppose the issue because of not only religious reasons, but also for ethical reasons. The issue of euthanasia is one that will forever be debated by people of all sorts of backgrounds for various reasons. The issue will never resolve, but that is not to say that it will not become legal for healthcare professionals to perform acts that would be considered acts of
In today’s scope of nursing, there are many issues that nurse’s face each and every day at their job. The two most prevalent issues that exist in the hospital today are the conflicts surrounding euthanasia and problems involving relationships in the workplace. My end goal is to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist so therefore euthanasia is an important topic to me, and nurses are known to be people persons so conflict between them can result in devastating outcomes. Euthanasia is defined as an act that is performed by some healthcare professional that will ultimately result in the patient’s death. Contrary to popular belief, euthanasia is not the same thing as assisted suicide. Assisted suicide …show more content…
Euthanasia goes against the Code for Nurses and ultimately, all that nurses stand for. Nurses are supposed to provide expedient and compassionate care to their patients at all time. If a nurse chooses to take part in active euthanasia, then he or she is choosing to either administer a lethal dose of medication or withhold further treatments that will lead to a person’s death. Both of these acts are completely unethical for a nurse to take part in because it is a nurse’s job to perform duties to maintain a patient’s life, not end it. But then there is the issue of compassion; is it compassionate for a nurse to just sit back and watch a patient suffer daily from the disease or disorder that he or she has? Most people would say no. This is because it is a common belief that nurses are supposed to make patients feel comfortable during their hospital stay. But sometimes there are patients that are suffering so much that active euthanasia is the only want to cease their suffering. Regardless, euthanasia is illegal in the United States because it is looked at as murder, even though it is considered “merciful …show more content…
But the idea of “assisted-suicide” has been making its slow conversion to becoming legal since the early 1990s. Also euthanasia is beginning to become legal in other countries such as, Colombia, Netherlands, and Belgium. Therefore I believe that eventually that the euthanasia movement will take a step towards legalization in the near future. Regardless of how hard representatives of the issue on euthanasia debate the benefits of it, there will always be people who oppose the issue because of not only religious reasons, but also for ethical reasons. The issue of euthanasia is one that will forever be debated by people of all sorts of backgrounds for various reasons. The issue will never resolve, but that is not to say that it will not become legal for healthcare professionals to perform acts that would be considered acts of