#1 Ethical Dilemma: Mary‚ a defense attoney‚ is contracted by her childhood friend for 10 years Elizabeth. Elizabeth is being charged with first degree murder of her ex-husband Mark. Mark’s family is assured that Elizabeth is guilty of mudering Mark after she caught him cheating with his co-worker Martha. Elizabeth is now the the number one suspect in the homocide because of circumstancial evidence‚ including the testimony of Martha who witnessed Elizabeth threaten Mark about killing him. In a private
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Case Study 3: To suspend or Not to Suspend Montoya Williams BSHS/335 August 11‚ 2012 Eileen Redmond Case Study Approaches to Ethical Dilemmas Case Study 3: To Suspend or Not to Suspend? Maya works at Community Medical Center as Assistant Director of the Health Information Department. She has worked in Health Information Management for the past 15 years‚ although she is new to Community Medical Center‚ within the past two weeks. Maya is aware of many statistics that are maintained for the joint commission
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Throughout the course of their careers‚ nurses can face a variety of ethical dilemmas. Due to the intense nature of their work; it is important for them to handle those situations in a way that respects the patients’ rights Yet‚ the situation is totally different when it depend on family or friend’s family member. In October last year‚ it was a sunlit day. I decided to take a walk with my best friend. She is a nurse and she was off that day. While we were walking around
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The ethical dilemma presented in this case example was that the doctor terminated his relationship with the client in order to pursue a romantic relationship. After the client-patient affiliation had been officially terminated‚ the doctor then invited the client to his home for dinner and a movie. It was at this time that the doctor sexually assaulted his former client. When the doctor was later confronted by the client’s priest with whom she had confided in about the nature of this incident‚ the
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worked with groups of young children by interviewing and researching their answers to questions. These questions arose from fictional scenarios of everyday problems to decipher a child’s moral reasoning (Kim‚ 2013). One of the most well-known moral dilemmas is “Heinz Steals the Drug”. In summary‚ children had to decide whether a man should break the law to save his wife or not. Kohlberg did not so much care about the answers to the questions‚ but rather the reasoning behind them. After completing a
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Sara (Social Care and Institute of Excellence‚ SCIE 2009). Ellis (2015) explains exploring and analysing how to resolve the problem with multiple different points of views should be undertaken. The support worker worked with Sara for year‚ in this case getting the support worker point of view would help the district nurse make the right decision. When questioning the district nurse had to think about how the patient personal morals and ethics might be affected and consider the best action to take
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history lesson plans and in contributing their perspectives and personal experiences regarding historical points in time. Unifying the generations at strategic points in the year has the potential to promote respect and shared knowledge across the ages immediately and with resources in hand. The project would potentially improve our elders’ social network with students in both the elementary and middle schools‚ while also reinforcing a students’ respect for their elders through classroom exchange
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Son‚ the case of the “Central Park Five”. According to the June 19 New York Times‚ the “Central Park Five are “The five [black and latino] men whose convictions in the brutal 1989 beating and rape of a female jogger in Central Park were later overturned have agreed to a settlement of about $40 million from New York City to resolve a bitterly fought civil rights lawsuit over their arrests and imprisonment in the sensational crime.” (qtd. Jackson). Five black and latino teenagers -- Kevin Richardson
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Case Study M‚ a 24-years-old pregnant woman who is been in a tragic car accident‚ with no previous history of chronic medical illnesses she presented to the emergency department unconscious. she suffered from intracranial hemorrhage which led to irreversible loss of all her brain and brainstem function. After performing a clinical examination to test her brainstem reflexes and apnoea‚ her neurologist declared her brain-dead after showing the three neurological criteria which are coma‚ apneoa and
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Moral Dilemma What people feel morally obligated to do depends on the situation. In general‚ I think everyone can agree that it is immoral to take someone’s life‚ but there are situations where people might think otherwise. There are also other less severe circumstances where people’s morals are put in question. In the end‚ it depends on one’s personal moral beliefs on how they would act when in certain instances. The first dilemma I chose was the fat man and the impending doom. Without a
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