Case Study In Nursing | Q&A

  1. If you were a utilitarian, would you advise the nurses to stay? Why or why not?

From the utilitarian perspective, the nurses have to stay at work as long as their work brought positive outcomes. As there were no other nurses in the staff to replace them, patients would remain without one-on-one care, which they needed badly. Therefore, nurses had to stay at work because this decision would lead to the good of the majority and bring positive effects (Devina, 14). On the one hand, they would let other nurses to have a rest, which they needed badly in the time of scarce staffing. On the other hand, they would deliver essential nursing care services to patients to provide them with the essential care and attention. Therefore, their decision would bring positive effects that matches the utilitarian concept of the common good and justifies actions, which bring positive effects.

  1. If you were a deontologist (Kantian), would you advise the nurses to stay? Why or why not?

The deontological perspective focuses on motives that influenced the decision taken by the nurses. In this regard, their decision could be also justified on the condition that they would not cause harm to their patients, which is the primary duty of nurses and other health care professionals. This is why their decision to stay at work, in spite of their illness, is justifiable from the deontological perspective as long as this decision is viewed in the context of the poor staffing and the desire of nurses to help their colleagues. On the other hand, their actions were wrong and incorrect from the deontological perspective, if their professional duty in relation to patients is taken into consideration (Devina, 17). To put it more precisely, their actions could harm their patients, while their duty is to prevent harm to patients. Hence, their actions were wrong from the deontological perspective.

 

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Devina, E. (n.d.). A Companion to Moral Problems in Medicine and Health Care. Kean University.

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