NURSING CARE FOR PATIENTS
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This research addressed the question: "Should nurses be required to provide care to all patients without exception?" The research examined the changing face of the health care delivery environment in the United States. Issues were addressed in relation to the increasing number of patients afflicted with diseases and conditions such as AIDS which are both communicable in specific circumstances and uncurable at the current level of medical knowledge, and of the reluctance of some health care providers to care for such patients. Issues also were addressed in relation to the circumstances of providing care for a resurgence of patients afflicted with diseases such as tuberculosis, and attitudes and values that might cause nurses to prefer not to care for such patients. Lastly, moral qualms that might affect the willingness of a nurse to provide care for patients in relation to abortion, do not resuscitate orders, and other emotionally charged issues were addressed.To assess the question concerning a nurse's discretion in defining the characteristics of and conditions applicable to patients to whom care will be provided, the concepts of care and nursing responsibility as these concepts have been framed by Madeleine Leininger, Jean Watson, Patricia Benner, and others were considered. A conclusion was drawn to the effect that the practice of nursing is characterized by a responsibility to provide care to all patients notwithstanding v
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ealth care services is that a failure to treat health care problems among undocumented aliens residing in the United States holds the potential to create a major public health epidemic that would threaten the entire national population (Chavez, Flores, and Lopez Garza, 1992, pp. 6 26). In such an event, the costs of health care services in the United States would become even more expensive.
In light of these conditions, some nurses question the requirement to provide care for undocumented aliens living in the United States. Other nurses appraise these conditions differently and support the delivery of care to such individuals.
Social issues also affect the attitudes of some nurses toward the delivery of care. Abortion, do not resuscitate orders, and a patient's right to die are three such issues confronting nurses in the contemporary period.
Research has found that a decision to abort or not to abort is difficult for a woman, regardless of the circumstances and the nature of the decision (Hall, 1990, pp. 32 35). Research has also found that many women experience difficulty in verbally expressing their feeling with respect to a decision concerning an abortion (Fraser, 1990, pp. 45 47). Within nursing, disparate opinion al
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