Group Five

Sometimes it is is very difficult to find a place to start with people with different disabilities. Do you acknowledge the diability or just work around it or is it just our issue in not dealing with the 3 ton elephant in the room. So we have to deal with our issue before we can deal with someone elses issue. You often just forget to ask and approach the problem or condition head on. Hopefully if you afre approaching someone the wrong way they will tell you.

AHH the ethics of it all....

In spending time in SL, we witnessed many perspectives of the health care forgotten. For all their differences the main theme is a need for compassion and understanding. Taking people for their words and not their appearance.

The ethical choice to give care without bias, not become jaded and continue to care about people like the nurses that we've tried to become.

In understanding the many different "invisible" diseases we must continue to believe the patient and have respect for them. We must put aside our general ideas of "pain" or "pain seeker" and advocate for all patients equally.

Margret Eldridge
Travis Cox
Stephen Ball
Lei Correa

Ethics in RL SL and Beyond

Meeting the support group was enlightening and interesting to see a patient with disabilities point of view in regards to nursing care, their illness, and functioning in daily life with their disabilities.

Of note was how importnant a social life and contact with other people is when home bound.

We also noted the gap that exsist between hospital care and the daily living expenses like food, computer access ect.

Marcus, Samantha, Jessica, Jaime

Ethical SIMS by Holly, Rochelle, Megan, and Yuni

It is very moving and sad to hear the pain and anguish that many people go through day to day. It hurts my heart that some of them were thinking that they don't see what RN's do and that they feel like we don't do our job. I know that I became a nurse because I feel compassion in my heart for anyone that is suffering and I want to do anything I can to help them get through their suffering. I wish they would understand that nurses work hard to get through school and work hard at work to do their job and take care of their patients. Just like any other occupation their are the few people that don't enjoy their job and portray that through their work. Patients need to remember that we are human and we do the best we can everyday.

Ethical Second Life

Advantages to this group include: 1. Opportunity to meet people in similar situations and learn from their experiences; 2. Anonymous; 3. Create people to look how they may desire to look, for example people in wheelchairs can walk; 4. Non-threatening.

This virtual world has helped us gain better insight into their negative and positive experiences in the healthcare system. From their experiences we can learn how to improve our nursing care.

Jennifer Jones, Allison McEachron, Rachael Warren

eithical blog for Meg, Sonnie, Kalia, and Molly

We found that the ethical group was really interesting! It was very cool that the group leader had set that all up for everyone to support one another and she facilitated the conversation very well (and was therapeutic about it too!) It almost seemed that the experiences the members had had with medical personnel was not good, because they all seemed to be hating on medical people. However, they were hopeful that we would come away with a new outlook (a patient's outlook) on what to do FOR the patients and that was beneficial.
We did find it encouraging that everyone seemed to really respect the nurses, and were surprised to hear the doctor/pharm rep relationship and how it affected these people's perception of the doctors. It was neat to get to go to a meeting and to get the welcome we did, and it was really great to hear things from a patient's point of view!
Meg Goodfellow, Sonnie Jones, Kalia Norcott, Molly London

Today

Today we met on Second Life with a group of people who have chronic health problems and got a chance to see what their views of healthcare are. We also asked them what we, as healthcare providers can do to help them better.

One of the things that most of them suggested was to listen to the pt. A lot of time patients feel that they are not listened to well enough and miscommunication is the result. People with chronic conditions know more about their conditions then doctors or nurses. Also they know their body better. Asking them more questions and listening to them can bring about a positive outcome in a more timely manner.

One ethical problem that the patients had was the influence of drug reps and the doctors prescribed treatment.


Ivan
Joseph
Jennifer
Tim