Test Bank for Nursing Ethics 5th Edition Butts (Discussion Questions)
Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice, Fifth Edition
Janie B. Butts and Karen L. Rich
Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions
Chapter 2
1. Identify two outstanding events in your life that you consider to have been occasions for
acting in an ethical way. Describe the events, your feelings, and the learning processes that took
place as a result of these two events. Compare the two events and the hard choices you had to
make in each event.
2. You are the nurse manager in charge of the budget and are told to allocate $10 million to
patients for free healthcare services at a family care clinic where you work. The generous donor
stipulated that a fair and equitable approach to distribution be used and asked for a budget report
before the actual distribution was complete. On what basis would you allocate the money, and
what distribution plan would you use for healthcare services?
3. Of the three theories of social justice presented—Rawls, Nozick, and Daniels—which one, if
any, fits your beliefs and value system? Please explain.
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