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Ethical Dilemmas. Safety and Ethics
 Linking the exemplar of ethical dilemmas with the concept of legal issues.
You are ( nurse Y) working as a registered nurse on a medical-surgical floor after graduation. You love your job and your co-workers. You have grown close with your colleagues, and regularly attend get togethers outside of work. As you have particularly became close with nurse X, who has been your mentor on the unit.
One day while at work, you walk into the break room and see nurse X attempting to take syringes out of a sharps container. When you ask what they are doing, nurse X replies “I have had some terrible back pain, I don’t want to see my doctor because I just don’t have the time. Please keep this between you and me. I know that I can trust you”.
a. What do the nurse Y do with the nurse Y have just witnessed? what ethical situation are presented before nurse Y?
b. If the nurse Y choose to report the nurse X colleague, what will be the cost to the nurse Y in doing so?
c. Nurse X is the sole money maker for their family of 4. Knowing that if nurse Y report what she have seen, Nurse X may very well lose their job at the facility and possibly their license all ether.
Does this change anything as far as the nurse Y reporting of the event go?
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