Ethical Issues In Chicago Med

While watching Chicago Med- Against Patient’s Wishes, one would noticed the numerous mistakes that were made by an arrogant physician and his team. In the clip, we have two opposing physicians, one respecting the patient’s wishes of a signed DNR and the other, ignoring the legal order and claiming that the patient, “will thank [her] me.” Throughout the resusitation, the physician who ignored the patient’s DNR (do-not-resusitate) aggresively demanded the nurses to retrieve the crash cart while his collegue demanded him to stop and questioned his decisions. By the look of the facial expressions presented on the nurses, you could that the nurses did not want to participate in the resusitation. His aggression pushed and forced the nurses to cooperate

Provisions 4 states, “The nurse is responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consisten with the nurse’s obligation to provide optimum patient care” (p. 9). In the clip, when the nurses retreives the crash cart and performs CPR, they become accountable for violating the DNR order. The nurse did not chose the right decision to assist the physician during the resusitation. It is strictly against the order, a DNR is a DNR. It is meant to be followed. After the patient becomes stable, the patient will undergo more pain and suffering, thus not providing optimum patient care. Provisions 5 states, “Nurses have the same moral obligation to self as they do to others. The nurse must maintain self respect, professional growth and competence, wholeness of character and personal integrity“ (p. 10). The nurse neglected to create a comforting and healing environment, because of the doctor’s moral values and perhaps their own. There was no self-respect or professionalism present. Again, the consequences of resusitation impacts the patient causing more harm than good. The nurses and the physician could have similar virtue ethics which led them to resusitating the patient. The ignorance of the patient autonomy shows that both nurses and physicians inhibited paternalism. As a result,

She may be in disbelief and in distress because her values were not satisfied due to the arrogance of the physician. The patient may even tell her husband to sue the physician or the hospital as a whole for having incompetent workers. Her family, on the other hand, may be happy that she is alive which is selfish. She could be suffering and in excruciating pain. If this was the case, perhaps the husband may become angry and upset because he did not agree to the resusitation as welll. He would be in more grief because the physician practically forced the husband to allow him to resusitate but the physician continued without the consent. The husband probably thought that the physician knew better than he did, because of course, he is his wife’s doctor. In order to create a healing environment, if the patient’s health start to decline, the nurses and the physicians must apologize to the family and in a way, admit their fault and prevent this situation from happening again in the hospital. They should be there for the family with an open heart as much as possible to get through this situation together. Perhaps, the physician and the nurses should justify their reasoning to resusitate the patient because of their virtual ethics and take fault for letting their ethics to influence their decisions.