Learning activity             As a nurse in one of the major hospitals in the United States, one ethical dilemma that I faced involved disclosing a medical diagnosis to a patient. At one encounter with a patient in the hospital, I became stuck between telling the truth to the patient versus being deceptive. A patient had gotten diagnosed with stage four colon cancer, and his family had been informed about this diagnosis. The patient’s family requested that the patient not be told about his diagnosis. During one of my mourning routines, the patient pleaded that I tell him about his medical condition. As a nurse, I knew that I had an obligation to the given patient and an ethical principle of nonmaleficence and fidelity (Newham, 2014). On top of this, I also had my values of telling the truth to the patient. Despite the obligation that I had of revealing the truth to the patient, I still had to respect the family member’s request. In relation to medical ethics, autonomy refers to the individual right of any patient to have full…