In your initial post, make the case if it is ethical or not ethical to withhold the diagnosis from Mrs. Liu at the request of Mrs. Liu’s family, incorporating and citing ideas from the Week 3 Beauchamp and Childress (2019) required reading on the disclosure of information to patients. Does mandated reporting to the public health department impact your decision?
Read the case study and answer the following Case Study: Withholding Information at the Request of the Family Karen Gill is an acute care nurse practitioner. Karen is employed by the only group of pulmonologists in a medium-sized city in Texas. Karen sees patients in the office and rounds at a level 2 hospital where […]