A Nurse's Personal Ethics Cause Issues In The Clinical Setting

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In this article, it refers to the conflict that arises with critical care nursing units and how a nurse’s personal ethics can cause issues in the clinical setting. According to Falcó-Pegueroles (2015), the amount of types of ethical conflict and moral states were related to the levels of exposure to ethical conflict. In a critical care setting a nurse is challenged by many ethical conflicts that include his or her beliefs, withholding information from the patient, reproductive rights, and the right for the patient to refuse treatment that could be life-saving. A nurse must struggle to come to terms with his or her own Code of Ethics as well as the Code of Ethics that the State Board of Nursing requires and sometimes will have to push it aside