Lawsuits allege patients end of life wishes ignored

Select an article about a situation where a decision by a physician, insurance company, government agency, or health institution adversely affected a patient or countermanded a patient’s wishes.
Article: https://www.reliasmedia.com/articles/141800-lawsuits-allege-patients-end-of-life-wishes-ignored
Write a 2- to 3-page paper analyzing this article and considering the following.
1. The nurse’s role in affirming the patient’s wishes and risks involved.
2. The social and economic consequences of reversing this decision.
3. Guidance from the Code of Ethics for Nurses sheds light on this situation.
4. The lessons to be learned for similar future situations.
5. The moral residue that haunts the nurse
Provide a bibliography of at least three references. The first should be the citation for the article you selected, and another is the Code of Ethics for Nurses
with Interpretive Statements.

 

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