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Essay / Reflecting on Ethical Lens - 1155
My initial response to the issues was based solely on hospital policies regarding patient care within the hospital. However, when I was guided down the different paths and made to look through different ethical lenses, I struggled to do so and seemed to fall back on my core values of autonomy and rationality. By putting patients first, hospital policies, and then their loved ones in the first scenario, I determined that a compromise was necessary. Whereas in the second scenario, I believe no agreement was necessary, just staff training (EthicsGame Simulation, 2016). In this particular case, Carlotta, the RN shift leader, needed additional training to understand the hospital's policy regarding who is and is not considered family (EthicsGame Simulation,