While helping patients with values clarification and care decisions, nurses should:
a. convince the patient to do what the nurse believes is best.
b. give advice about what the nurse would do.
c. tell the patient what the right thing to do is.
d. provide information so that the patient can make informed decisions.
ANS: D
While helping patients with values clarification and care decisions, nurses must be aware of the potential influence of their professional nursing role on patient decision making. Nurses should be careful to assist patients to clarify their own values in reaching informed decisions. Providing information to patients so that they can make informed decisions is a critical nursing role. Giving advice or telling patients what to do in difficult circumstances is both unethical and ill-advised.
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