• Ethical Dilemmas Patient 1: This patient is admitted to ER with Respiratory Failure and Septic Shock. The patient was transferred to LTAC for long term management of disease. Patient’s chart states that she has DNR/DNI order‚ but her son was disagreeing with that decision. One of the ethical principles that direct ethical decision making in health care is the autonomy-the ability of the individual to chose for him or herself. Patient 2: This patient was admitted with endocarditis and had a tracheostomy
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At some point in everyone’s life they have probably heard an argument or a commercial about the ethical dilemma of abortion. Since the historical 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade‚ the discussion of a woman’s right to have an abortion has been one of the most contentious moral and political debates in America. The Court decided that a woman’s right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy‚ protected by the fourteenth amendment. The decision gave a woman total freedom and control
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I’ve encountered an ethical dilemma situation in my recent capstone clinical. My clinical preceptor and I caught in the concepts of the principles of autonomy‚ veracity‚ and nonmalifecence. This occurred when we provided nursing service to a 30-years-old male patient who was taken to the ED as a post-code patient. The EMS team arrived in the scene and initiated CPR and defibrillated a client (on the floor of his room). The client ended up in the ICU with a diagnosis of hypoxic- anoxic injury (HAI)
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is reluctant in telling his partner or practicing protective sex. The client is angry and indicated that he even considers deliberately infecting other potential partners. Dilemma 1) Reluctance to advise partner 2) Reluctance to practice safe sex 3) Deliberate intention to infect others Working through ethical dilemma to find management strategies that are ethically and legally defendable and justifiable; I) Public Health Act a. GP is mandatory reporter‚ and this act would allow the health
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Introduction: This essay will look at an ethical dilemma encountered in clinical practice while working as a clinical research nurse as part of a lung cancer research team. This essay will give a background to the subject area‚ look at the potential impact of this dilemma on clinical research and identify evidence based potential solutions to the dilemma. Methods of implementing the potential solutions into practice will then be outlined. The NMC (2008‚ p. 6) Code of Conduct states that as a nurse
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Ethical issues are present in different aspects of our everyday life‚ through various ways such as conflicts in the workplace‚ social‚ or cultural issues we might face. Some ethical issues can be easy to find a solution because we have set religious‚ moral and cultural values instilled in us from a very early age. Therefore‚ makes solving ethical issues instinct or intuitive based on our values. Yet‚ some ethical issues can be perplexed issues‚ due to many factors that play like we will see in the
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The ethical issues involved in the case study for school psychology or ABA‚ are pertaining to patient confidentiality. In the case study‚ the patient trusted the psychologist to not tell anyone that she had started to cut herself in order to make friends with a group of girls. The patient is excited to finally be making friends as she has difficulty in socializing with others. According to the psychologist‚ she or he has not discussed patient confidentiality or its terms with the client. In reference
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characters are constantly faced with situations that challenge their judgement and morality. While they all encounter similar ethical questions‚ the characters in The Oedipus Cycle all resolve their dilemmas in different ways. From the logic-minded nature of Antigoné to the overconfident nature of Oedipus‚ the way each and every character of The Oedipus Cycle deals with major moral dilemmas is an insight into not only their unique personalities‚ but also their status in society. The Oedipus Cycle‚ in short
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Workplace Ethical Dilemma Elizabeth Tirado BSHS/332 February 4‚ 2013 Kathleen Roberts Workplace Ethical Dilemma I have often thought of myself as a good person. My parents raised me to respect my elders‚ be kind to animals and children‚ and to say always please. These are good qualities for a person to have‚ but it is important to know why people have these qualities. Showing common courtesy to someone may make an impact in that person’s day‚ but in the workplace common courtesy‚ especially
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----------------------- [pic] Personal Ethical Dilemma on Alcoholism Prior to Grade 11‚ whenever I heard the words ’substance abuse’ my mind immediately pictured useless‚ pathetic and stupid people who were ruining their lives for no reason. My notion began to change slightly as I moved through my last schooling years but even with an ever-increasing academic workload I would never even consider any substance as a stress reliever. The circumstances which made me think long and hard about
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