Ethical Dilemmas In Health Care

In the health field of today’s society, working staff should seek to promote good actions and the health of the patients and community around them. The ethical principle of beneficence promotes the health and general well being of others (Ivanov et. al, 2013). Ethical principles stem from morality, and these moral views can be applied to any field of work. Ethical principles are particularly salient to the health field, which upholds the care of patients. For instance, when a person experiencing excruciating pain or has been afflicted with some sort of threatening symptom, it is the hospital staff’s duty to immediately tend to that patient’s needs in an attempt to treat the patient into a healthier state. Regardless of whether the patient
Nurses are not only involved with emotionally supporting the patients, but also in supporting the family’s emotional state, while acting as relays of information between the doctor, the patient, and the patient’s family. It is in this way that nurses must maintain professional ethics and behave morally throughout their occupation. In this paper, the author will discuss an ethical dilemma, the potential choices of action, and the advantages and disadvantages of the choices of action pertaining to the
The benefit of this would be that the patient would not have had to suffer for several hours due to the doctor’s fear of being lawfully sued by the patient. The patient could have been placed in a healthier state much sooner, and considering his age and his need for dialysis, letting the patient bleed for nearly a full day may have severely impaired his health and well being. The doctors did not act in beneficence of the patient, and did not take the appropriate moral action of tending to a suffering