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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In this section‚ I will explain five moral issues that are prevalent to the dental hygiene profession. The best way to define a moral issue is that it is a dilemma one is faced with where they must choose between right and wrong. A dental hygienist may be faced with a variety of moral issues. Common dilemmas include substandard care‚ patient overtreatment‚ confidentiality breaches‚ fraud‚ and even sexual harassment
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Ethical Health Care Issues HCS/545 September 10‚ 2012 University of Phoenix Ethical Health Care Issues When working with patients and their families‚ the health care professionals occasionally will face unpopular and difficult decisions that relates to medical treatments which questions moral issues such as religious beliefs and even professional guidelines of ethical or not. Health care ethics is used as a parameter for staff to exemplify the
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Ethical issues In Counseling Practice Ethics are a vital component of Counseling. It helps keep Professional Counselors accountable to their clients‚ and to the state board. Let’s first start with the definition of ethics” Are guidelines or rules set by a governing body or society.. Ethics are important because it helps the Counselor think in reference of how well can he or she perform their duties. Ethics have many reasons to exists in
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In today’s time and age in society we have ethical health care issues. One which is Blood Transfusions. What is a Blood Transfusion? What are the risks? What can you expect during and what happens before? Who may need one what is the outcome. How many types of Blood Transfusions are there? Blood transfusions are a procedure by which bold is given through a IV hose line. It is then the IV put into your blood vessel. A needle being inserted does all this. In some people the transfusion may take
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Ethical Issues – Bribery In this paper on ethical issues‚ I will be presenting my perspective on the issue of Bribery in doing business. I will be summarizing three distinct articles from different sources‚ namely‚ Harvard Business Review‚ Bloomberg Businessweek and The Wall Street Journal‚ respectively. Later in this paper‚ I will provide some insight on how this aspect of corruption could potentially affect my business project for this course. The three articles that I have used in this paper
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simply for recreational‚ there are not only laws to consider when the topic of legalization comes up but also ethical concerns as well. For this paper I will outline some of the uses for this drug and some of the benefits of its use. I will apply the classical theory of utilitarianism to resolve the issue of legalization while also using the perspective of ethical egoism that this issue brings up and include my own view of these theories concerning the legalization of marijuana. Many people
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with ethical problems they must maintain moral integrity‚ living up to their ethical beliefs by being honest‚ trustworthy and consistently standing up for what is right (2012). Pozgar (2016) the contents of ethics vary depending on the risks associated with a particular profession (p. 300). The National Commission on Correctional Health care (2011) talks about nurses in a traditional medical setting. How ethical decisions happens periodically and sometimes nurses are pulled into ethical situations
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of a series of fascinating ethical and ecclesiological reflections that reveal the intriguing insight of her thoughts on love‚ family‚ the Church‚ and of ultimate good. The ethical framework Mother Teresa presents in her address centers around the life and ministry of Christ. She devotes a significant portion of the early part of her address to reiterate the life of Christ‚ primarily his sacrifice. Since Christ’s commandment is to "Love as I have loved you‚" she explains that the life of Christ must
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Issue in the Nursing Literature Keeping people alive and functioning physiologically via artificial means of technology leads to much discussion of the terms life and living. Beliefs are that biological functioning is being alive‚ no matter if the person is aware of one’s self or others. This leads to the question of what is quality of life (Burkhardt & Nathaniel‚ 2014). “Quality of life‚ a subjective appraisal of factors that make life worth living and contribute to a positive experience of living
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