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Ethical Dilemmas In Nursing Research

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Nurses face ethical dilemma in everyday situation about the advance directives and end of life care decisions. Nurses needs to educate the patients that advance directive can be done whether younger or older age, whether one healthy or sick. Another necessary information is that advance directives can be changes at any time according to their wish. If the medical record states the patient has an advance directive, make sure a copy of the patient's advance directive is in the patient's medical record. Also make sure that if a patient has more than one type of advance directive, copies of all of the patient's advance directive are in the medical record. If patients say they want to revoke or change their living will and/or durable power of attorney,

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