When an ethical issue arises for the community health nurse, which is the most important nursing responsibility in managing the client care situation?
A) Analyzing the ethical principles at stake at any given decision-making point
B) Following the request of the client and family members exactly as they have verbalized
C) Ensuring the community health care team takes ultimate responsibility for deciding the solution to the situation
D) Remaining neutral and detaching all present beliefs when making ethical decisions
Ans: A
Conscious awareness of this risk and application of the principles of justice, both retributive and distributive; veracity; and fidelity will assist community health nurses to analyze the ethical principles at stake at any given decision-making point in their work with communities. Their actions, then, will reflect the best possible application of the principle of community as partner and will promote the optimal overall health of a community within its own culture.
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