Mathew Is a Nurse Working in a Remote First Nations

question 10

Multiple Choice

Mathew is a nurse working in a remote First Nations community. The client is using traditional medicine to treat a wound. Mathew is experiencing moral distress because he believes that a Western therapy is required to treat the wound. How should Mathew resolve his moral distress?

• A) Ask another nurse to take on this client so that Mathew does not have to compromise his standards of practice
• B) Ask the client how he may support them in using traditional medicine
• C) Transfer care to a Shaman or herbalist in keeping with the client's belief system
• D) Tell the client that Western medicine is needed because the wound is not healing with the traditional approach

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