A staff member asks a nurse manager why the hospital has an ethics committee. The nurse manager explains that a benefit of ethics committees is that they:
a. provide guidance that assists with difficult decisions.
b. are interdisciplinary and provide a way to decide what is wrong and right.
c. provide guidance that assists with decisions concerning ethical dilemmas.
d. provide guidance that assists with decisions related to ethics and nursing practice.
C
Ethics committees can be found in many health care organizations today, and they consist of an
interdisciplinary group of people who assist in making decisions concerning ethical dilemmas. While
these dilemmas may require difficult decisions and judgments about what may be "right" and "wrong"
in certain circumstances, they pertain only to ethical dilemmas and not to other types of decisions or
concerns.
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