Ethics is an understanding of the nature of conflicts arising from moral imperatives and how best we may deal with them. Specifically‚ it deals with conflicts in potential outcome (consequences of actions) or with duties and obligations. Ethics doesn’t decide what is morally right or wrong; rather it considers how we should act best in the light of our duties and obligations as moral agents. Health ethics is the interdisciplinary field of study and practice that seeks specifically to understand the
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may be neither legal or ethical. For example‚ when a nurse makes a medication error and does not report it. ETHICAL DUTIES Nurses have many ethical duties to their clients. The main ethical duties are: nonmaleficence‚ beneficence‚ fidelity‚ veracity‚ and justice. The duty of nonmaleficence is the duty to do no harm. The nurse first needs to ask him or herself what harm is. When a nurse gives an injection she is causing the patient pain but she is also preventing additional harm such as disease
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Ethics Case Study Jerry McCall is Dr. Williams’ office assistant. He has received professional training as both a medical assistant and a LPN. He is handling all the phone calls while the receptionist is at lunch. A patient calls and says he must have a prescription refill for Valium‚ an antidepressant medication‚ called in right away to his pharmacy‚ since he is leaving for the airport in thirty minutes. He says that Dr. Williams is a personal friend and always gives him a small supply of Valium
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provider’s make an appropriate decision. "In the U.S. four main principles define the ethical duties that health care professionals owe to patients. They are: -Autonomy: to honor patients rights make their own decision -Beneficence to help the patient advance his/her own good -Nonmaleficence to do no harm -Justice to be far and treat like cases alike". (Vermont Ethics Network) Medical Ethics not only deals with the way you should treat the patient physically‚ but also the type of personality you as
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Adelajda Zhgaba Medical Ethics PHL 211 Ethical considerations in chemotherapy treatment for cancer patients 1. Would it be ethically concerning to accept refusal of chemotherapy treatment from cancer patients‚ more importantly from teenagers diagnosed with this disease? According to the National Cancer Institute‚ approximately 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year and 7.6 million of them die from this disease. People usually undergo chemotherapy‚ radiation therapy‚
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Abstract In synopsis‚ the case involves Ruby‚ a therapist that is counseling Henry‚ who expresses extremely hostile feelings toward homosexuals and toward people who have contracted AIDS. Henry is not coming to counseling to work on his feelings about gay people; his primary goal is to work out his feelings of resentment over his wife‚ who left him. He thinks homosexual people are deviant and that it serves them right if they do get AIDS. Ruby’s son is gay and Henry’s prejudice affects her emotionally
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Introduction The purpose of this paper is to summarize an ethical dilemma and consider the principles of moral reasoning and the fundamentals of the ethical decision making involved. Also‚ to consider the affect of society‚ the institution‚ the profession‚ and stakeholders on the ethical dilemma. According to Butts and Rich (2016)‚ moral reasoning is defined as a process in which the objective is to determine if an idea is wright or wrong. Ethical decision making is the process of choosing and evaluating
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The first ethical principle is nonmaleficence‚ meaning first do no harm (Judson and Harrison‚ 2010). A question asked by Milton and Cody (2001 p.290) was‚ "How can one keep from doing harm if one acts without knowing what the reality of the lived experience is for the person?" In the case
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Amputation Mishap; Negligence Carmen Holder HCS/478 February 4‚ 2013 Barbara Gilbert‚ EdD‚ MSN‚ RN‚ CNE Amputation Mishap; Negligence Confused by a repeating dream‚ Joseph Benson wakes up and realizes the wrong leg was amputated. Even under the best of circumstances‚ mishaps such as this one do occur as a result of negligence and cause unnecessary duress to patients. This paper will discuss the difference between negligence‚ gross negligence‚ and malpractice. I will present my opinion of
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Ethical dilemma – Racism in Nursing Your name…. Oakton Community College Abstract In today’s society‚ there are many ethical dilemmas that nurses are faced with that are virtually impossible to solve. One of the most difficult and controversial issues that society is still facing is racism. Nursing as a profession seems to avoid considering the problem of racism (Vaughan‚ 1997). There is‚ however‚ a need to address this topic and to evaluate its implications for nursing practice. The ethics committee
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