Ethical and Legal Issues NUR/391 March 23. 2011 Ethical and Legal Issues Laws are to protect the innocent. Our patients are the innocents when the nurse is to be caring for them. The nurse is expected to care for the patient not only with respect but also with skill and knowledge to perform the job properly and effectively. Two cases affected by the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics are very clear. In the case of the nurse witness‚ her code of ethics clearly states she is to be
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Legal‚ Ethical and Professional Issues Ethical Dilemma Within healthcare‚ practitioners often have to make difficult decisions regarding the care of their patients. This could be to do with giving or withdrawing treatment‚ or as simple as sharing risk information (Glover‚ 1997). Ultimately‚ the practitioner must be able to rationalise any decision they have made (Morrison‚ 2009). With this in mind‚ the following assignment will draw upon an ethical dilemma and explore how theoretical perspectives
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about the virulence of the virus. It has been estimated that this pandemic caused around fifty million deaths in only twelve months. Half of the deaths that occurred were among those twenty to forty years of age. To this date there is still much controversy over where the virus originated‚ with suggestions being either from China or US military camps in the mid-west. Several years later‚ another pandemic spread across the world. This next pandemic was known as the Asian Influenza A N2H2 of 1958
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Ethical Issues Surrounding Gay Marriage When I think of Ethical issues in the world today‚ Gay Marriage seems to hits me the hardest. Now Maybe it is the fact that I am bisexual myself or that I have a homosexual uncle who has been married for 2 years. Either way‚ I am a strong supporter of the entire marriage institution‚ especially gay marriage. In this paper I will first indentify the ethical issue of gay marriage and specifically explore the ethical problems gay marriage presents including
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Biometrics Ethical and Privacy Issues 9/9/12 Abstract Biometrics technology aims at utilizing major and distinctive characteristics such as behavioral or biological‚ for the sake of positively indentifying people. With the help of a combination of hardware and specific identifying sets of rules‚ a basic human attribute‚ automated biometric recognition mimics to distinguish and categorize other people as individual and unique. But the challenges surrounding biometrics are great as well
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Legal & Ethical Issues in Nursing Michelle R. Stelly Term I: Writing Project 2010 Mrs. VanIwaarden 10/11/2010 Nurses are subject to a plethora of legal‚ ethical‚ and professional duties which can be very challenging. These duties are generally considered to be to respect a patient ’s confidentiality and autonomy and to recognize the duty of care that is owed to all patients. As nurses our duties are always professional‚ however there are legal implications if these duties are
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provide hypertext links to other Internet sites‚ and many allow for audience comments.’ (Nardi‚ Schiano and Gumbrecht‚ 2004:1) There are generally two types of Blogs: personal blogs are those which resembles online journal or diary; non-personal blogs include forums which concentrates on diverse topics and issues‚ and commercial Blogs that are used to advertise products and services. For the purpose of this paper‚ only personal blogs and blog forums will be explored. Blogging in Singapore has
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have an abortion any time during the first trimester. In considering the ethics of the case‚ the ethics board consider her personal issues such as not being insured or her unwillingness to be a mom less in comparison to the significant ethically relevant factors. The other factor that will be infringed upon is Kate’s struggle of not having insurance. This becomes an issue because for her entire life she has used the same hospital that understood her situation‚ but if she is forced to go to another hospital
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Legal and Ethical Issues for IT Practitioners Brandy L. Spinks Business 670 Dr. Stephens December 20‚ 2010 Legal and Ethical Issues for IT Practitioners For ages thinkers have written hundreds of books in an effort to understand‚ explain‚ categorize‚ and label moral‚ immoral‚ an amoral human behavior and the rationales behind our actions. Yet‚ there still is not a universally accepted way of analyzing ethical situations (Hatcher & Aragon‚ 2000) and ethical issues are not a favored topic
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My view of group counseling has changed tremendously. Prior to this course I thought group counseling just consisted of a counselor gather a group of people with similar issues and assisting them through their troubles so they are able to lead a happy and healthy life. Now I know group counseling consists of way more than that. For example‚ I have knowledge of the stages of an addictions group and the roles of both counselors and group members. I also look at the group process in a different way
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