Preservation of life with limits can be defined as the responsibility of healthcare providers to attempt to save a patient’s life through all means but making sure not to deny their right to treatment refusal. The healthcare provider can preserve the patient’s life if the patient is willing and not […]

PART A: Ethical Challenges in School Nursing Introduction School nurses practice in a multi-disciplinary environment that integrates many stakeholder perspectives. Differing values and views of parents, administrators, teachers, students and the school nurse can culminate in ethical conflicts in decision-making on health issues. In this sense, school nurses work setting […]

A. Ethical Issues As a practicing nurse, one will come across various challenges that require guidance from the American Nursing Association (ANA) code of ethics. However, the stipulations in ANA’s code of ethics can at times result to ethical dilemmas in actual practice. As a nurse leader serving on a […]

The Client Just like any other medical procedure, knowing the client is the first step in the counselling session (Jones, 2010). Knowing the client provides essential information about the difficulties the patient is facing and is the initial opening for a counsellor to form a rapport with the patient. The […]