Question 1: Process of Decision Making
- Outline the problem: outlining the challenge at hand gives knowledge of why a decision should be made. It also allows the parties to know where they should find the solutions (al 2016).
- Look for possible guidance: this step entails finding sources that can help in the decision-making process such as people, friends, and colleagues.
- Search for alternative solutions to the challenge: don’t look at the apparent outcomes but look for new ways at least three alternatives.
- Assess the identified options: for the defined options, assess the negative and positive impacts of each and look up the right information from written sources like books. Choose the one with the least adverse effects and maximize positive results.
- Create the choice: this step applies where one person is involved, but a proposal for the desired options is evaluated and the solutions defined in a team.
- Implement the choice: use the suggested decision and see if it works.
- Evaluate the decision: decisions are made to end challenges in a firm. If the ruling ends the problem, it can be used, but another choice should be sought if not.
Question 2
Since there are two decisions made on feeding the mother by her children, the children should look for support from other people on which choice they should follow. They should also look for an alternative solution to this challenge from the ones they have suggested. Later on, they must assess the alternatives they found and create choices on the option that fits in their mother’s challenge weighing the negative and the positive impacts of the replacement. They should then implement their mother’s selected decision to see if it is fixing their mother’s problem. If the alternative suites their mother they should use it but if she is not interested in it, they should find another choice.
Question 3
Autonomy: I should be independent in treating MrsCharlotte Boyer because I am trained to save my patients’ lives, and by following the family members’ ideas, my patient may end up losing her life (Dignum, 2017).
Beneficence: I doctor should try to do an act of charity to the older woman by inserting the feeding tube to prevent her from dying out of inadequate nutrition.
Question 4
In provision 3, the subsection of patients’ safety is essential in my nursing practice because it builds my professional reputation in that many potential patients will want my service.
Reference
Shadlen, M. N., Kiani, R., Newsome, W. T., Gold, J. I., Wolpert, D. M., Zylberberg, A., … & Roitman, J. (2016). Comment on “Single-trial spike trains in the parietal cortex reveal discrete steps during decision-making.” Science, 351(6280), 1406-1406.
Dignum, V. (2017). Responsible autonomy. arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02513.