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Gina Desson
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Which baby should be given the best shot at life?

Which baby should be given the best shot at life?

You have accepted a job opportunity overseas in a remote location.  You have been working for a week now as a nurse in a rundown neonatal unit were resources are desperately needed.  Two hours into your shift you find yourself faced with an ethical dilemma. One of the babies that you have been assigned to care for was born at 26 weeks gestation. The baby requires an incubator to survive. However, the charge nurse has just informed you that another baby has just been born at 30 weeks gestation and must have an incubator. The issue is that the last available incubator is being used by the infant born at 26 weeks who is believed to have less chance of survival. The charge nurse has asked you to remove the baby born at 26 weeks gestation from the incubator so that the new arrival can take its place. You know that if this baby is removed from the incubator its prognosis is very poor. In addition, you feel extremely uneasy about acting out these instructions however you know that the new arrival has a better chance of survival. 

 

 

It is proposed that you follow the nurses instructions