A public health nurse is examining several issues within daily practice. Which of the following issues would be considered an ethical dilemma?
a. Whether or not to establish a community health center in a rural area
b. Allocating resources in a natural disaster
c. Deciding to withdraw care on a hospice patient
d. Applying the principles of Florence Nightingale in Bangladesh
ANS: B
When resources are scarce, a dilemma may exist as to how to allocate them. Considering estab-lishing a community health center may be a dilemma, but it probably does not involve ethics. Withdrawing care from a hospice patient would most likely not be an issue encountered by a public health nurse, as this represents community health nursing practice, not public health nurs-ing practice. Applying the principles of Florence Nightingale would not be ethical issue.
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