Choose a patient-care situation in which the RN should intervene and advocate for the patient.  An example of such a situation might be when a patient has not been given complete informed consent.

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Include the following in your paper:

Describe the clinical situation concisely and descriptively. It can be an actual situation or a hypothetical one.

Apply the Bioethical Decision Making Model to the specific clinical ethical situation that you choose. Address each section of the model in your paper.

• Conclude with a discussion of nursing advocacy in the clinical setting and the nurse’s role as a patient advocate.  MDC Nursing Paper
• Bioethical Decision Making Model:Bioethical Decision Making Model

1. Define the dilemma: Use your own words to describe the problem. State it in a way

• that others can quickly understand your dilemma. Review
  2. Identify the medical facts: Describe the facts that are relevant to the dilemma.
  3. Remember that the diagnosis and prognosis are medical facts.
  4. Identify the non-­?medical facts (patient and family, external influences):
  a.Patient and family facts such as culture, religion, social, economic, the
  existence of an Advance Healthcare Directive, verbal preferences made by
  the patient, how the patient lived his/her life.
  b.Those that you discuss should be relevant to the situation.
  5. External influences include: organizational policies, federal and state laws, practice
  acts, code of ethics. These should be relevant to the situation.
  6. For both step 2 or 3, separate the facts from the assumptions: Sometimes all
  healthcare professionals allow assumptions to guide their decision-­?making. These
  must be identified so that these assumptions do not interfere with the process.
  7. Identify items that need clarification. Your paper should identify facts that you need
  to clarify. When initially discussing an ethical situation, it is not unusual to not have
  all of the answers. MDC Nursing Paper
  8. Identify the decision makers: Is the patient an adult competent to make their own
  choices? Is the patient a child who is old enough to have a say in the decision. If the
  patient cannot make their own decision, who is the decision maker? How was this
  person selected?
  9. Review the underlying ethical principles: Review which ones and why they apply t
  this particular case: beneficence, nonmaleficience, veracity, fidelity, autonomy and
  justice.
  10. Define alternatives: One-­?Way to proceed may be apparent at this point. However,
  sometimes there are different choices. They should be addressed identifying the
  benefits and burdens for doing one thing versus the other.
  11. Follow-­?up: Define the process to be used with the chosen alternative. MDC Nursing Paper