The Use of the Newly Deceased Patient in Clinical Skills Education: Its Ethical Challenges

Abstract

Introduction: Today according to the importance of patient rights and autonomy and available educational tools, newly deceased patients are less used for educational purposes. The purpose of this study case report is to present used of new deceased patient's teaching of clinical skills to students and to express their ethical challenges. Case Report: The patient was a 70-year-old woman with cardiopulmonary arrest. She is referred to the emergency department. The patient dies due to the unsuccessful of her resuscitation operation. Instructor uses patient corpse for training in cardiac massage and intubation of nursing students. In this case, the ethical and educational challenges raised are to include: ignore of patient rights, the patient's individual autonomy and obtain informed consent and used of cadaveric as educational tools. Conclusion: The results showed that due to student guidance by the instructor and her interest in learning in the real environment, the ethical, religious, legal, educational and caring challenges in this case report were ignored.