HOW POSSIBLE IS ETHICAL NURSING CARE IN THE PRESENCE OF VIP PATIENTS?

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 6 Sayı: 2, 62 - 69, 31.05.2025

Ümmügülsüm Kaya , Burcu Kübra Süha

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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

Anahtar Kelimeler

Nursing Care , Nursing Ethics , Principle Based Ethics , Recommended Patient , VIP Patients

VIP HASTALARIN VARLIĞINDA ETİK HEMŞİRELİK BAKIMI NE KADAR MÜMKÜN?

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VIP hasta, sağlık profesyonellerinin bakış açısından çok önemli bir kişi veya çok etkili bir hasta anlamına gelir. Tüm sağlık profesyonelleri arasında hemşireler, VIP hastaların hemşirelik bakımında etik sorunlara daha fazla maruz kalmaktadır. VIP hastaların hemşirelik bakımını etik açıdan inceleyen çalışma sayısı oldukça sınırlıdır. Bu derlemenin amacı, VIP hastaların hemşirelik bakımında etik sorunları etik ilkelere göre eleştirel olarak analiz etmektir. Etik ilkeler incelendiğinde VIP hastalar mahremiyet ilkesi açısından diğer hastalara göre dezavantajlı ancak özerklik, eşitlik, zarar vermeme, yararlılık ve adalet ilkeleri açısından oldukça avantajlı durumdadırlar ve bu durum diğer hastaların zarar görmesine neden olmaktadır. Hemşireler, VIP hasta ve yakınlarından, yöneticilerden, üstlerinden ve diğer sağlık çalışanlarından gelen bitmek bilmeyen talep ve zorlamalar nedeniyle büyük bir ahlaki sıkıntı da yaşamaktadırlar. Bu durumda hemşireler kaynaklarını ve zamanlarını VIP hastalara etik olmayan bir şekilde ve diğer hastaların zararına olacak şekilde ayırabilirler. Sonuç olarak, VIP hemşirelik bakımı hemşirelik etiği, değerleri ve felsefesi ile uyuşmamaktadır. VIP hastaların etik hemşirelik bakımı, ancak önemli bir kamusal figürün ciddi bir hastalığını kamu yararına veya diğer hastaların yararını garanti altına almadan tedavi etmek dışında mümkün değildir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Etik İlkeler, Hemşirelik Bakımı, Hemşirelik Etiği, Önerilen Hasta, VIP Hastalar

Anahtar Kelimeler

: Etik İlkeler , Hemşirelik Bakımı , Hemşirelik Etiği , Önerilen Hasta , VIP Hastalar

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