The movie Wit chronicles the care of patient Vivian Bearing‚ a poetry professor who is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer and is undergoing aggressive chemotherapy treatment. While in the hospital‚ Vivian is taken care of by a nurse named Susie‚ and her treatment is overseen by Dr. Kelekian and Dr. Jason Posner‚ who happens to be a former student of Vivian’s (Bosanquet & Nichols‚ 2010). Throughout her time in the hospital Ms. Bearing doesn’t always receive the best care; ethical principles are
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Abstract Schools may have an ethical obligation to help in the prevention of the increasing propensity toward childhood obesity. School programs can be implemented to improve the nutritional quality of students’ diets. Students spend approximately one third of their day in school and consume one to two meals there per day‚ therefore justifying the importance of the responsibility to advise dietary behaviors and influence healthy decisions. In consideration of these logical methods‚ the ethical
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individual may argue a right to privacy and autonomy and not only demand medical personnel to not inform the family‚ but they too refuse to inform them. In regards to the ill individual‚ they have a moral obligation to inform those at risk based upon beneficence‚ in order to avoid placing harm onto others‚ as well as utility‚ where they must do what creates more good than harm. Although the individual will have their privacy breached‚ the harm coming from that is significantly less than what would be experienced
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Stop AIDS in Prison Act Sue King Liberty University Abstract Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2006 briefly introduces the issues related to the bill. These issues will be identified in this paper. Representative Maxine Waters introduces the bill; the history initial development‚ and the reason for introducing the bill however‚ these issues will be further discussed. The bill is introduced in order to stop AIDS in the prison system. The bill presents three sections which are the short title‚
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ABORTION: AN ETHICAL DILEMMA Nicole Simpson Values Seminar Summer 2014 June 6‚ 2014 Abstract This research paper will focus on the ethical dilemma of abortion. The Supreme Court decision of 1973 (Roe v. Wade) made abortion legally available to women within the first two trimesters of a pregnancy. Abortions are legal in many states‚ but are they ethical? Does the healthcare industry consider the ethical dilemma of abortion as ending a life? Do individual practitioners have a choice when
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Developing a Plan: Ethical Decision Making Veronica S. Booker Liberty University Abstract Counselors are often placed in vulnerable situation when thinking about the best practices and decision making. Circumstances will arise that could comprise the integrity of the counselor. In those instances there needs to be guidance and this paper attempts to break down a scenario of an ethical dilemma and the course of action that should be taken when the problems shared occur. The author uses‚ The Practitioner’s
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Nursing Leadership and management Ethical Dilemma Synopsis As nurses‚ we vow to advocate for our patients by respecting their autonomy and maintaining their dignity. We practice beneficence and veracity when providing patient care. During my time as a student‚ I have unfortunately heard and seen many breaches in ethical principles regarding patients and their care. As the nurses exchanged report from the previous shift‚ they gossiped about a nurse on another medical-surgical unit making a medication
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medical provider‚ such as doctor or nurse‚ has an obligation of beneficence towards the patient. The patient has a right to both skilled beneficence as well as the right to autonomy. However‚ autonomy and beneficence are often controversial in some circumstances. Everyone with autonomy has the right to make choices for themselves‚ including denying practices or choices that would interrupt the medical provider’s duty of beneficence. Paternalism is the overriding of a person’s autonomy for their own
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harming others physically or psychologically‚ which would therefore prohibit enslavement and kidnapping. Also‚ under beneficence individuals have the duty to improve the conditions of others which would include health‚ security and education. Ross had already established these principles‚ all Garret did was combine both non-maleficence and beneficence into one prima facie
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who can make decisions as an independent. In clinical situations‚ a nurse is to respect an individual’s autonomy‚ whether it be furthering treatment or wanting to know what is happening‚ and to do good to and for that patient‚ leading us to beneficence. Beneficence is at the center of the nursing practice. We are to prevent harm to the patient and promote good. With the ethical relativism theory‚ it discusses the morality of a cultural norm of believing whether an act is moral or not (American Nurses
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