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What was the situation? What did the dilemma involve?

As a current worker in the healthcare field, I have seen many situations

that received a lot of conflict on whether someone was being ethical or

unethical. The dilemma that happened involved an activity therapist and

a patient on the mental health unit. The patient only spoke Spanish and

was not able to communicate, he was trying to ask the activity therapist a

question and she stated, “I’m sorry I can’t understand you” and

continued to talk to other patients. This occurred during my rotations as a

nursing student, so I did not feel like I could speak up for that patient at

that time, so I immediately left to tell my clinical instructor the dilemma

that occurred. It is our job as healthcare workers to treat all patients

equally and not discriminate someone based off their religious beliefs,

background, or the language they speak.

Subjective Moral Relativist & Cultural Relativist

Subjectivism refers to an individual’s right to their own authority on their

moral life and practices (Suharnanik, S. 2020). In my opinion there was

no effort made by the activity therapist and the patient could not even

participate because he couldn’t speak English. I do not think the

subjective relativists approach is valid because there is a fine line

between one’s own moral practices and just being rude......... Continue