Underplayed Gems

Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing (1984)

Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing poster
Directed by
Joan Sawyer
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
26 min
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary follows nurses in four real-life cases where they have to make tough ethical choices. It shows how they balance the wishes of patients, families, and doctors when deciding what care to give.

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What happens

Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing is a 1984 American short documentary film directed by Joan Sawyer. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. This documentary shows four actual situations where nurses confront difficult ethical decisions, as they balance the often contradictory views of patients, family members, and other staff about what is best for their patients. Case 1: A newborn with probably fatal birth defects that is a ward of the state is in the Neonatal ICU and nurses must decide what level of care represents beneficence, or "doing good." Case 2: The staff in a nursing home must decide between respecting a patient's autonomy and the need to restrain her to prevent injury. Case 3: The nurses in an ICU make daily decisions about allocation of nursing resources and bed according to the principles of justice. Case 4: A nurse caring for a terminally ill patient faces a conflict between fidelity to her commitment to relieve suffering and the promise made to the patient's family. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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