Directions:
Ethical Issue Clinical Judgment Case Scenario
Nurse leaders and managers are responsible for the unit’s ethical and legal decisions.
Initial Post
Consider the examples provided below and describe how you would handle the experiences.
• A manager is not granting pay to someone who worked overtime.
• A nurse manager tolerating verbal abuse of another nurse.
• Constantly short staffing the unit when there is high census.
• A nurse not providing all of the patients information during shift report. A manager will not pay someone who worked extra hours.
• A nurse manager letting another nurse be yelled at.
• The unit is always short on staff when there are a lot of people.

During shift report, a nurse doesn’t tell about all of the patients.
• Favoring one staff over others.
• Making a hiring or firing decision based on friendship.

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