1. What tools can nurses use to assure that the care they are involved in is necessary? 2. Imagine a scenario in which you, the RN, perceive the patient to be receiving care of little value. What do...

1. What tools can nurses use to assure that the care they are involved in is necessary?

2. Imagine a scenario in which you, the RN, perceive the patient to be receiving care of little value. What do you do? What ethical principles and decision making approaches can help guide your actions?

3. Have you experienced moral distress in a work setting? What elements of the environment contributed? What organizational, structural, or other changes could have alleviated your distress?