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This 5 page paper explores a nurse's ethical responsibility as they pertain to a young child that has potentially been abused. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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organizations such as the American Nurses Association (ANA). Consider, for example, a case involving an eight month old child with fractured femurs. The mother brought the child to
the emergency room after picking her up from daycare and finding her inconsolably crying. The triage nurse in the ER, upon discovering that the child has an elevated pulse
and respirations as well as endematous and warm thighs, suspects an injury and reports her suspicions in the file and to the ER physician. X-Rays reveal bilateral femur fractures
but the physician does not suspect abuse and proceeds accordingly. He informs the mother of the problem and admits the child to the hospital with her mother at her
side. The physician does not report suspected abuse. When examining this case from an ethical standpoint, numerous problems become apparent. Ethical principles guide
our actions in the clinical environment. It can be difficult, however, to make all decisions regarding a patients treatment on the basis of ethical principles alone. Patient care
is a complex balance of patient desire, resources, and clinical knowledge. When one counteract the other the nurse is put into a decision of having to decide on the
basis of what is best for all concerned rather than what the patients family might think that they want. In her clarification paper on the American Nurses Association
web site, Draucker (2002) observes that child abuse may be "physical, sexual, or psychological in nature, or may involve psychological or physical neglect". In other words, abuse may be
either an act of commission or omission Abuse has occurred just as much as when the child has been neglected and thus was able to wander off and break
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