The Grocery Cart: To Whom is the Moral Duty Owed?

          

Review of some of the clinical/cultural/social/personal components to nursing care

Scenario 1:

1. You have had a very tough day in the office, caring for many folks with  hypertension, diabetes and obesity;

On your way home from the office you are the checkout at the super market and see an obviously obese woman/man pushing a cart filled with about everything in it that contributes to the diseases you have struggled with all day.

What do you feel, think, and would you consider saying something?

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Scenario 2:

2. You have had a great and rewarding day at the office with the same scenarios...

What do you feel, think, and would you consider saying something?

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Reflective questions for you  to deliberate include:

a  Effects of your day on your choices?

b  What are the ground rules for you when you are out of the office/out of your role as a nurse practitioner?  When have you crossed the line and where does your line even come from?

c. Self-assess: how you were feeling when you saw the grocery cart?

d. Do you have a personal story about a similar incident you would like to share?

e. Since your spirituality and religion are an integral part of your identity as a person and a nurse, to whom is the moral duty owed?

as always,

Prof Alan