a plan of action‚ and (6) E = evaluate and monitor the solution and feedback when necessary. First of all it is important for a health care professional to define what the problem is. The following are Uustal’s nine steps to ethical decision making identified in the Ethical Decision Making Lecture at Grand Canyon University (2011). SITUATION: 85 year old Full Code living in a vegetative state‚ who has just been readmitted to the ICU for treatment of pneumonia; has a history of 1 CVA‚ 2 TIA’s; tracheostomy
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THE CONCEPT OF ETHICAL OBLIGATION Name Institution Instructor Course Date The concept of ethical obligation Ethical obligations are rules and laws by which people are expected to live and adhere to in order to undertake a profession. Most professionals as George tenet belonged to professional organisations which‚ among other things‚ are able to discipline people for interfering in the ethical obligations and suspend or expel them from practice if the interference is serious
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DIFFERENT ETHICAL ISSUES REGARDING ADVERTISEMENT Much of the controversy over advertising stems from the ways many companies use it as a selling tool and from its impact on society’s tastes‚ values‚ and lifestyles. In the ads where sexual stereotyping is used‚ there is a relationship between the recall of the ad and the consumer’s subsequent purchasing decision. Similar relationships are also evident in ads that use cultural stereotyping and emotional exploitation.
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Ethical Issues in the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research Richard R. Sharp‚ PhD Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Baylor College of Medicine Historical Perspectives The use of animals in biomedical research has a lengthy history. Early Greek writings (circa 500 B.C.)‚ for example‚ describe the dissection of living animals by physician-scientists interested in physiological processes. These early vivisections appear to have been done mostly for exploratory purposes‚ however
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Research Draft of Final Paper on Ethics: Theory and Practice In this course‚ we look at classical ethical theories of utilitarianism‚ deontology‚ and virtue ethics. We also look at the different kinds of perspectives on ethical issues introduced by relativism‚ ethical egoism‚ and emotivism. For this paper‚ you will pick an ethical issue to discuss‚ but one that is not a specific topic addressed in our text (thus‚ gun control or product liability would not be possible choices). Some examples
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Ethical Behavior Analysis of Bernie Madoff & Enron Ethics‚ ethical values‚ and social responsibility should all work in unison in a corporate business structure. These key traits are better defined as maintaining overall good business morals‚ obtaining employees who possess personal ethical values‚ and finally to behave ethically and with sensitivity toward social‚ cultural‚ economic and environmental issues. For a business to better ensure these quality business traits a code of ethics should
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Resolving Ethical Dilemmas and Making Ethical Decisions An Ethical Dilemma is a complex situation that often involves an apparent mental conflict between moral imperatives. To obey one would result in transgressing another (Wikipedia). One can create an assumption based on this definition that while one task is important to one self of morals the other self is just as important and there is a necessity to make a decision between those morals of that individual. The most common example is when
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Ethical Issues in the Medical Field There are many ethical issues that could arise throughout working in the medical field. Daily‚ medical practitioners are put into extremely complicated and stressful situations‚ where they need to make a major decision regarding someone’s life or treatment. There are many ethical issues that could arise throughout working in the medical field. Daily‚ medical practitioners are put into extremely complicated and stressful situations‚ where they need to make
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with pornography‚ read their e-mail‚ steal their credit card number from an on-line shopping site‚ or implant software that will secretly transmit their organization’s secrets to the open Internet. With these concerns and others‚ the ethical hacker can help. ETHICAL HACKING: Information security is the fastest growing area in the Information Technology (IT) sector. Security would be an easy process if all that had to be done is to install a fire wall and anti - virus software‚ but the reality is
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Euthanasia and its Ethical Issues Euthanasia can be defined as the deliberate killing of a person for the benefit of that individual. In most cases‚ euthanasia is carried out because the person‚ who dies‚ asks for it; but there are situations in which the patients are unconscious or in a coma or not mentally stable enough to make the decision for themselves. (Wikipedia‚ 2010) Euthanasia is one of the major ethical topics all around the world; there are people who believe that if a patient chooses
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