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Joseph is a nurse at a hospital which is underfunded and has limited medical supplies and only one doctor. At about 2pm three different serious-case patients arrive together, all requiring immediate attention from a doctor. Joseph must make the decision to send one knowing the others will certainly die even if he is to do what is within his nursing capabilities.
Patient 1 – Sister Catherine is a missionary nun from Ireland who looked after Joseph in the orphanage where he grew up. She has looked after and taught many generations of local children in her 40 years in Developing World Land and is like a mother to Joseph.
Patient 2 – Jacob is a local man who has been educated abroad and came back to DWL to use his knowledge and skills to help regenerate the national economy and raise his country out of poverty and debt. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics as well as several international humanitarian awards for the grassroots work he is doing in DWL.
Patient 3 – Marion is the single mother of thirteen dependent children. Her husband has recently died of AIDS and if she dies, her children will struggle to feed and clothe themselves. The local orphanage will not be able to take them all due to government restrictions and some will become homeless – their vulnerable position will make them likely targets for local slave-traders.
Discuss the following:
a. If Joseph chooses to save the first patient, for what reasons it would be wrong?
b. Do you find the utilitarian decision to be the most ethical given the circumstances?
c. Will any other ethical theory be more appropriate to apply under the circumstances? Justify
d. What decision do you think a nurse would make in this situation? Explain.
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