Moral authority in OGN nursing

Ethical dilemmas are becoming more common in the work of the OGN nurse. Ethical decisions that involve nurses sometimes appear as traps in which nurses can feel coerced or manipulated. Nurses may overplay, underplay, or ignore their professional authority due to miscommunication or misunderstanding. A careful reassessment of personal values and assumptions about the OGN nurse's role and responsibility in decision making must be made.