Ethical Dilemmas In Long-Term Care Field

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An ethical dilemma is a situation that involves a moral and ethical conflict between doing something that is wrong or right. Ethical dilemmas are situations that are encountered daily in long-term care facilities and involves scenarios that relate to the end of life issues, decision-making abilities, use of sedation and hospitalization (Bardetti & Moriarty, 2009). There is no right or wrong answer to an ethical dilemma but what is important is what is the person who is facing the moral dilemma believes. In the health care field, ethical dilemmas often require caregivers to make decisions that may break some ethical norm or contradict some ethical value (Pozgar, 2011).