Ethical Questions

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1. Respond to the sense or feeling that something is wrong. Identify the issue at hand. What is the ethical question? The ethical question is to decide who is an appropriate for antibiotic therapy and how consult with other professionals can aid us in making these decisions. 2. Gather information / make an assessment of the situation. What data can you identify to support and not support the ethical question raised? -Diagnosis, staging criteria/ severity of illness, risk factors for success of fail or treatment, likelihood of etiologic agent being a resistant strain, microbiological labs - Data from clinical trials and the literature, consult from doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals 3. In identifying the ethical

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