Beneficence In America

Asian Americans and Pacific Islander’s lives has also been influenced by the history of tobacco use in Asia and the Asian Pacific (Benowitz, Blum, Braithwaite & Castro, 2014). Tobacco is a crop of great significance in Asia that produces approximately 60% of the World’s tobacco crop (Goodman, 1992). Asians uses tobacco for medicinal purposes such as a remedy against colds, malaria, and cholera (Benowitz, Blum, Braithwaite & Castro, 2014). Sharing and distributing cigarettes among guests was also a gesture of hospitality and in weddings, a customary way of honoring the bride and groom (Benowitz, Blum, Braithwaite & Castro, 2014). Cigarettes are considered an essential part of contemporary Asian and Asian Pacific life and are associated with
It includes medical interventions and a responsibility to take practical steps to ensure good health outcomes for their patients (Anikeeva, Braunack-Mayer & Rogers, 2009). By implementing a pre-operative smoking cessation program, healthcare providers are taking important steps in helping patients achieve the best possible outcome from their elected surgical procedures and at the same time protecting others around them from the dangers of second hand smoke. By encouraging patients to quit smoking and helping provide resources to help them do so, they are demonstrating beneficent
Personal autonomy includes “self-rule that is free from controlling interference from others and limitations that prevent meaningful choice (Beuchamp & Childress, 2009, p.101). Respecting someone’s autonomy, is acknowledging their right to hold views, to make choices and to allow them to take actions based on their individual values or beliefs (Beuchamp & Childress, 2009). Sometimes difficult ethical issues arise when the patient’s autonomous decision conflicts with the provider’s beneficent duty. For example, if a patient wishes to continue to smoke pre-operatively, their autonomous choice would conflict with the provider’s duty of beneficence. For those patients addicted to tobacco use, sometimes smoking cessation may not be an easy process. These patients often lose their autonomy, not so much in their ability to make decisions, but rather the “ability to decide to forgo smoking” (Sendorovich & Gordon, 2015). That is why it is important for healthcare providers to restore autonomy as much as possible and return control to their patients (Sendorovich & Gordon, 2015). As long as patients fully understand their decision, consequences of their actions and at the same time making autonomous choices, healthcare providers should be supportive and