Chapter 4: Ethical Considerations in Forensic Nursing
| 1: If caring concern for patients is one of the benefits of good nursing care, are there potential barriers to achieving this when caring for forensic patients? And how might a nurse overcome the barriers? |
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| 2: What are some problems that might occur when applying Western bioethical principles to persons from non-Western cultures? |
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| 3: How does recognition that psychiatric diagnosis is, at least in part, socially constructed inform the practice of forensic nursing? |
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| 4: How would you balance the community’s need for security and the individual’s right to treatment in the case of the unhappy prisoner found at the end of this chapter? |
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| 5: Use the factors for considering the ethical justification of clinical decisions to discuss the decisions made about the unhappy prisoner. |
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| 6: How would you use ethical principles and justifications in deciding on a course of action in the case of a patient making a questionable request for medication? |
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