Moral distress occurs when you know the ethically correct action to take but are

Moral distress occurs when you know the ethically correct action to take but are constrained from taking it (AACNLinks to an external site., n.d.). After reading the article on addressing futility, examine The Case of FredaLinks to an external site.: Staff in Moral Distress When Patient’s Wishes Not Followed, from the Center for Practical Bioethics. Please respond to three of the following questions in your post.
1. What factors about Freda’s case led to moral distress on the part of the long-term care facility staff?
2. Is their attack on the mother an appropriate response? Can it be justified?
3. What explains the attending physician’s acquiescence to the existence of a feeding tube in his patient?
4. What arguments can you provide the staff when they confront the physician?
5. What should they do, if the physician remains unwilling to act on their concerns?
6. Has the neurologist acted responsibly?
7. What ethical principles, virtues, or consequences do you think play a role in the patient’s suffering, and the staff’s moral distress?
8. What information do you have that would lead you to believe that the patient has decisional capacity?
9. Do patients have the right to refuse artificial nutrition and hydration? How would you help Freda explain her wishes to her mother and aunt?