@article{article_1616023, title={HOW POSSIBLE IS ETHICAL NURSING CARE IN THE PRESENCE OF VIP PATIENTS?}, journal={Turkish Journal of Science and Health}, volume={6}, pages={62–69}, year={2025}, DOI={10.51972/tfsd.1616023}, author={Kaya, Ümmügülsüm and Süha, Burcu Kübra}, keywords={: Etik İlkeler, Hemşirelik Bakımı, Hemşirelik Etiği, Önerilen Hasta, VIP Hastalar}, abstract={ABSTRACT VIP patient means a very important person or a very influential patient from the perspective of health professionals. Among all health professionals, nurses are more exposed to ethical problems in nursing care of VIP patients. The number of studies examining the nursing care of VIP patients from an ethical perspective is very limited. The aim of this review is to critically analyze the ethical issues of VIP patients in nursing care according to ethical principles. When ethical principles are analyzed, VIP patients are disadvantaged compared to other patients in terms of the principle of privacy, but they are very advantageous in terms of the principles of autonomy, equality, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice, and this situation may harm other patients. Nurses are under great moral distress due to the endless demands and compulsions from VIP patients and their relatives, managers, superiors and other health professionals. In this situation, nurses may allocate their resources and time to VIP patients unethically and to the detriment of other patients. In conclusion, VIP nursing care is inconsistent with nursing ethics, values and philosophy. Ethical nursing care of VIP patients is not possible except to treat a serious illness of an important public figure without guaranteeing the public interest or the benefit of other patients. Keywords: Nursing Care, Nursing Ethics, Principle Based Ethics, Recommended Patient, VIP Patients}, number={2}, publisher={Ümit Muhammet KOÇYİĞİT}