Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Nur391 January 14‚ 2010 Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing The American Nurse’s Association’s code of ethics provides guidelines to help nurses make ethical decisions with the patient’s needs as the main focus of concern. In the case where Marianne‚ a 79-year-old woman who is admitted for a hemorrhagic stroke and her family is in conflict over the decision to have surgery or not to have surgery‚ the code of ethics expresses the need for the nurse to be
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References: Al-Lamki‚ L. 2011‚ "Medical Tourism: Beneficence or maleficence?"‚ Sultan Qaboos University medical journal‚ vol. 11‚ no. 4‚ pp. 444. De Roubaix‚ J.A.M. 2011‚ "Beneficence‚ non-maleficence‚ distributive justice and respect for patient autonomy – reconcilable ends in aesthetic surgery?"‚ Journal of Plastic‚ Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery‚ vol. 64‚ no. 1‚ pp. 11-16. Dorsey‚ D. 2009‚ "Aggregation‚ Partiality‚ and the Strong Beneficence Principle"‚ Philosophical Studies: An International
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Singapore Nursing Board Standards for Nursing Practice defines that Nurses/midwives have the professional responsibility and accountability to uphold Standard of care and to contribute to their dissemination‚ interpretation and development despite medical advances‚ social and demographic changes and an increasingly complex healthcare delivery system that challenge the ability of nurses to provide safe quality of care. Should nurses fail to uphold certain standards and by doing so cause harm or injury
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Ethical Principles Violated In 1990‚ Terri Schiavo suffered cardiac arrest leading to a persistent vegetative state. Over the next 15 years‚ her case received international attention as her husband and parents argued over how to fulfill Terri’s end-of-life wishes. Although tragic‚ the plight of Terri Schiavo provides a valuable case study. The conflicts and misunderstandings surrounding her situation offer important lessons in medicine‚ law‚ and ethics. Despite media saturation and intense
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Krautscheid (2014) suggests that professional nursing accountability is an aspect that underpins professional nursing practice and is frequently described by professional nursing organisations however it can be difficult to describe and define with no consistent language or definition available in the literature. Kozier (2012) suggests it is the ability and willingness to assume responsibility for your actions and accepting consequences of your behaviour. The development of the role of the clinical
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Running Head: ORGAN TRANSPLANTS Organ Transplants October 16‚ 2011 Organ Transplants Marketing of organs arose many other ethical issues. Authorities will not be bought and sold legally in the U.S.‚ though‚ there is evidence that the "black market" for organs actually live in countries such as China and other countries as well. Allegations were made that the persons actually traveling to China to buy organs for transplantation. There was evidence that many of these organs come from the
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necessary conditions being meet. Firstly‚ the patient must be competent. Secondly‚ a paternalistic model cannot be used for the patient’s treatment. This places almost all of the power of decision away from the patient‚ thus limiting the right of patient autonomy. If the necessary conditions are met‚ the sufficient conditions of patient’s refusal of life saving treatments must be an impairment of their quality of life along with expressing a desire to deny treatment. When these conditions are fulfilled‚ a
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Describe the relevance of the concept of compassion for ethics and social ethics. Introduction: Explorations of the gap individual and social ethics and attempts to bridge this gap‚ have resulted in either detailed philosophical abstraction (Mukerjee 1950) or proposals to measure the subjective potential between impartiality and utilitarianism (Mongin‚ 2001). One phenomenon that occurs in this cleft which may explain individual and social ethical thinking and decision making is that of compassion
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the recommendation of the physicians and the team‚ the desirable outcome would have been possible survival but would have had the undesired effect of violating her religious principles. The major ethical dilemma was that by honoring the patient ’s autonomy and religious beliefs‚ the physicians and
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tension between beneficence and respect for autonomy: The principle of nonmaleficence is translated from ‘first‚ do no harm’ (Hippocratic oath) and what intends to say that if you can not do any good without causing harm then do not do it at all. The principle of beneficence is understood as the first principle of morality and follows closely to nonmaleficence. Its meaning is to do good for the patient. It does however depend on what one defines good as. The difference between beneficence and nomaleficence
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