the dilemma of removing the patient from harm but still obtaining their consent. With mandatory elder abuse reporting‚ nurses may be more keenly focused on the issue and are obligated to report it. The challenge involves the ethical principle of beneficence‚ defined as to “do good” (Butts & Rich‚ 2013‚ p. 446) for the patient. Health care professionals want to provide adequate care and reporting suspected abuse can help remove the patient from harm and stop the abuse from occurring. However‚ nurses
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Professional‚ Legal and Ethical issues in person-centred care For the purpose of this assignment the student will be discussing and analysing the professional‚ legal and ethical issues that influenced how person-centred care was delivered to a patient in an acute psychiatric hospital where the student was working. In accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2010) the patient will be referred to as Sarah to uphold confidentiality. During a shift at the hospital the student attended
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acceptable. These ideas combined say that people have a duty to treat others justly‚ which means not treating them as mere means. Going further‚ this means that duties of justice‚ not using people as a mere means‚ always take priority over duties of beneficence‚ helping people reach their goals. With all these aspects of Kantianism‚ I will now evaluate the clinical
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Research Ethics The term ethics dates back hundreds of years‚ and today the meaning still holds true. Ethics is simply doing the right thing‚ which involves acting in the right spirit‚ out of an unwavering respect and concern for one another. In learning about the health profession one of the very first things a student is introduced to is ethics. What is considered morally right? What ethical decision-making process leads a person to a particular decision? In clinical research‚ ethics plays a very
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Case Presentation-“Please Don’t Let Me Die!” The ethical principal showcased in this case presentation was beneficence. The nurses were not thinking beneficially of the resident in any aspect of their practice. A professional nurse would not consider leaving a floor with only three nursing assistants to care for 100 patients. The nursing assistants do not have the authority to manage a floor‚ the license to ensure patient care‚ nor do they possess the required knowledge to assess patients or delegate
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recreated again mainly due to current APA standards. It can be argued as well that this experiment violated ethics standards of its time as well. The APA’s Ethical Principles includes five basic principles (“Ethical Principles”). Principle A‚ Beneficence and Nonmaleficence‚ states that psychologists seek to “be aware of the possible effect of their own physical and mental health”. Obviously‚ Zimbardo could not have been completely aware of the possible effect and it is clear in the experiment that
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1 Counselors must communicate the nature‚ risks‚ and benefits of the procedures‚ treatment‚ research or any other thing that the client is consenting to. This also includes authorizing the counselor to release information‚ communicate by email‚ text‚ or to record a session. 2. Privilege only applies to legal settings. the privilege between psychotherapists and clients offers legal protection to the confidential therapeutic relationship by granting mental health professionals a release from releasing
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EBT 1 Task 2 Andrea Thomas Western Governors University EBT 1 Task 2 A. Review of the Sources of Evidence B. Sources of Evidence Being Reviewed C. A1- Classification of Types of Sources of Evidence D. A2- Appropriateness of Sources of Evidence E. A3- Classification of Sources of Evidence In text citations Classify each source of evidence as either a general information resource‚ a filtered resource‚ or an unfiltered resource. Discuss whether each source of evidence
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Accountability This essay is about accountability in health and social care setting. Accountability requires the individual practitioner to take responsibility for their actions and the outcomes. The essay looks at the different areas of accountability such as‚ principles of care‚ delegation; four ethical principles. In this essay record keeping will be discussed. (RCN ‚2008) defines accountability as taking responsibility for the actions done by a health care worker or omissions in their daily
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1. What is a moral dilemma? A genuine dilemma is one type of moral problem‚ captured by the expression “You’re damned if you do‚ damned if you don’t.” That is‚ in a dilemma‚ there appears to be no right answer or solution (Dreisbach‚ 2008). Moral dilemmas‚ at the very least‚ involve conflicts between moral requirements (McConnell‚ 2010). 3. The four questions that must be asked to establish if a Dirty Harry Problem exists are: Did the agent know the situation and the choices that it offers
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