first? The answer is their ethical duty‚ meaning every nurse is guided by ethical theories and principles which help guide them as a patient advocate. It is these ethics that make a nurse so valuable to clients and ultimately makes a nurse the client’s best advocate. In this paper the core ethical theories and principles will be discussed and how exactly this helps RN’s be the best possible advocate and what benefits the clients themselves derive from these ethical theories. In order to properly understand
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Ethical Theories Sheri Wernert BUS 670: Legal Environment Professor Gentry December 19‚ 2010 Ethical Theories In every day life a person is bound to have ethical issues that must be decided. This is also true for the business world. With cases evolving each day of unethical companies such as Enron ethics is now being viewed as an important part of training for many companies. Which ethical theory to follow depends on the individual and there are many theories to be considered. How
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Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise that limits access or places restrictions on certain types of information. A major ethical dilemma that is prevalent within school districts is confidentiality within school social work. There is the concern of how much information is acceptable to share with other school personnel‚ in order to provide the most effective services for that client. There are numerous principles that need to be taken into account‚ when analyzing what information
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NORMATIVE ETHICAL THEORIES Objective • Discuss the normative ethical theories L2: Normative Ethical Theories Beliefs about how people should behave can be classified into at least 2 major categories: Teleological theories (Consequentialism) Right actions are those that produce the most or optimize the consequences of one’s choices. Behaviour is ‘ethical’ if it results in desirable behaviour 1. 2. 3. 4. Ethical egoism Ethical elitism Ethical parochialism Ethical universalism Deontological theories
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compare contrasting ethical principles and theories and the legal issues surrounding this topic. The ethical principles outlined will be; autonomy‚ non-maleficence‚ benevolence and utility. Furthermore the ethical theories supporting these principles that will also be outlined are; utilitarianism‚ deontology (both Ross and Kant’s version)‚ Rawls’s theory of justice‚ natural law ethics‚ virtue ethics and care ethics (Schwartz‚ Preece and Hendry‚ 2002). Utilitarianism An ethical theory which falls into
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been formed. Of all those ideas on the nature of ethics and what is ultimately most good and bad‚ emerged three major philosophical theories on ethics. The three major theories on ethics are ethical egoism‚ utilitarianism‚ and deontology. In this paper I will compare and contrast all three and show why ethical egoism is strongest argument for basing your ethical code on. The
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Traditional Ethical Theories Consequentialist (teleological) Non- Consequentialist (deontological) - Act in the way that brings about the best consequences - Concentrate on the act being perform Egoism (outcome: desirability) Kant (ethics of duties) Nature: Nature: act accordingly to self-interest based on desires free (Adam Smith) Example: Correct if morals actors think it is correct (rational/logical/reasonable) not depends on situations Categorical imperative- right
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individual values. You may disagree with someone and believe your view is superior‚ relative to you as an individual; more often‚ relativism is described in terms of the values of the community in which one lives. The view of ethical relativism regards values as determined by one’s own ethical standards‚ often those provided by one’s own culture and background. Rather than insisting that there are moral absolutes‚ moral claims must be interpreted in terms of how they reflect a person’s viewpoint; moral claims
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Everyone in the United States is entitled to the fundamental human rights written in the U. S. Constitution Bill of Rights. Therefore‚ the most important guiding ethical principle that I have chosen is that of the rights theory approach. The Rights Theory managing approach in the corporate world can also help advance a career by providing others with the opportunity to be free in their religious and personal beliefs and rights as a human being. In doing so‚ a manager can earn trust‚ provide motivational
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this issue very carefully. This chapter talks about Workable Ethical Theories such as Kantianism‚ Act Utilitarianism‚ Rule Utilitarianism‚ Social Contrast Theory‚ and others. If I had to choose one of the workable ethical theories in chapter 2 and use it for all my personal ethical decision making‚ I would choose Kantianism. According to the book “Ethics for the information age” by Michael J. Quinn (2014)‚ Kantianism‚ an ethical theory of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant‚ is able to go beyond
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