High seas, high drama

Article Abstract:

District nurse Lesley Bowden is aboard the yacht Time and Tide as the medic for the crew taking part in the ten month British Telecom Global Challenge round-the-world race. All crew members have overcome serious medical problems, including cancer, and three have had amputations. Bowden attended a short course in emergency skills before embarking on the race. She has had to deal, in the first part of the race, with a fracture in the good leg of one of the amputees, and repeated infections in a cancer sufferer.

Health aspects, Usage, Sailboat racing, Yacht racing, Emergency nursing

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Could you justify this decision?

Article Abstract:

A professional dilemma is presented where a nurse must determine the best interests of her 16-year-old patient over his wish that she not disclose a child abuse allegation. The case involves a nurse faced with the decision of whether or not to report information disclosed to her in confidence by a teenager. The 16 year old claims to have been abused, but does not wish the nurse to act upon the information. The nurse did not disclose but made the patient aware of resources if he needed them.

Social aspects, Decision making, Ethical aspects, Nurse and patient, Nurse-patient relations, Decision-making (Ethics)

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