Decision-making is always termed as a cognitive process that results in a selection of a course of action or belief among many alternative possibilities (Anderson, Sweeney, Williams, Camm & Cochran, 2015). Decision-making is a study of choosing or identifying alternative based on the preferences or values of the decision maker....

Patients who require end-of-life care due to terminal illness require specialized and compassionate nursing care which is designed to improve pain management, provide support to families during this difficult period, and to make ethically responsible decisions (Hebert, Moore, & Rooney, 2011). From this perspective, it is necessary for nurses to...

The topic of boundary crossing and boundary violations is vividly discussed by scholars. In order to understand the difference between the terms, it is important to clearly conceptualize them. Boundaries are ‘the edge of appropriate (therapist) behavior adopted to the needs of the individual patient to create an atmosphere of...

For this discussion, a 32-year-old female patient will be discussed. She was admitted to the hospital at 39 weeks gestation based upon the determination made at her 18-week ultrasound. At the time of presentation, she was experiencing uterine contractions every four minutes with increasing intensity. The patient stated that her...

The described case study involves multiple legal, ethical, and financial implications for a hospital administrator. First and foremost, it involves critical ethical implications: the information about a nurse with HIV is received from a third-party source (besides, this source is in close informal relationships with the administrator). Second, just as...