Ethical Case Study #2 A nursing school initiates a mentoring program whereby all undergraduate students meet in assigned groups with a facility…

Question Ethical Case Study #2A nursing school initiates a mentoring program whereby all undergraduate students meet in assigned groups with a facility mentor each semester in their program. This mechanism is a way to provide students and future nurses with a sense of empowerment and support, as well as permitting them to express themselves in a safe environment, without fear of reprisal. It is also a means by which the values of the profession can be transmitted. This mechanism provides students with a forum of trust and respect for expressing their feelings and of preserving their dignity. However, one group junior students are experiencing distress. Their mentor, a senior faculty member and department chairperson, has an outside business and asks for “volunteers” to work in his “community health center”, predominantly funded by federal grants, where they are expected to do unsupervised well-child health assessments. The students feel inadequate to the task, but the faculty person stated that this is “related clinical experience that is supervised”. In addition, one of the students found the grant proposal on the internet and discovered that it contains provisions in the budget for registered nurses to conduct these assessments. This is a powerful faculty member; other faculty members refuse to discuss this with the students. What should the students do?What are the principles of ethics that apply to this case study?What are the theoretical concepts of ethics that apply?What are the potential ethical dilemmas presented by this scenario? What would you recommend be done to resolve these dilemmas?What is the most ethical course of action in this scenario? Health Science Science Nursing NSG 100 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)