Legal & Ethical Issues in Nursing Michelle R. Stelly Term I: Writing Project 2010 Mrs. VanIwaarden 10/11/2010 Nurses are subject to a plethora of legal‚ ethical‚ and professional duties which can be very challenging. These duties are generally considered to be to respect a patient ’s confidentiality and autonomy and to recognize the duty of care that is owed to all patients. As nurses our duties are always professional‚ however there are legal implications if these duties are
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Multicultural Issues in Supervision Ethical supervision must consider the ways in which diversity factors can influence the process. In addition to course work‚ supervisors need a framework to approach differences in culture‚ race‚ gender‚ socioeconomic status‚ religion‚ and other variables pertaining to clients being seen by trainees (Falender & Shafranske‚ 2004). The ACA’s (2005) code of ethics dealing with supervision states that “Counseling supervisors are aware of and address the role of diversity
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Legal‚ Ethical and Professional Issues Ethical Dilemma Within healthcare‚ practitioners often have to make difficult decisions regarding the care of their patients. This could be to do with giving or withdrawing treatment‚ or as simple as sharing risk information (Glover‚ 1997). Ultimately‚ the practitioner must be able to rationalise any decision they have made (Morrison‚ 2009). With this in mind‚ the following assignment will draw upon an ethical dilemma and explore how theoretical perspectives
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Digital Imagery: Legal and ethical issues Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to analyses the legal and ethical issues associated with the changes in digital image technologies. The analytical process used was conducting research on the issues relating to image copyright and ethical use of images through online academic resources‚ these sources where used to define the issues associated with image copyright and ethics. This report provides an analysis and evaluation
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Abortion is a Serious Ethical Issue: Usually debates about abortion focus on politics and the law: should abortion be outlawed and treated like the murder of a human person‚ or remain a legal choice available to all women? Behind the debates are more fundamental ethical questions which aren’t always given the specific attention they deserve. Some believe that the law shouldn’t legislate morality‚ but all good law is based upon moral values. A failure to openly discuss those values can obscure important
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topics and issues‚ and commercial Blogs that are used to advertise products and services. For the purpose of this paper‚ only personal blogs and blog forums will be explored. Blogging in Singapore has become a phenomenon and its pervasiveness across all ages in our society is evident with popular local Blogs like Mr Brown and Xiaxue having the two highest votes for the Best Asian Blog Award 2005 (The Weblog Award‚ 2005). However‚ the increasing popularity of Blogging poses ethical and moral
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Ethical issues surrounding Wal-Mart Ronald L. Reeves Columbia Southern University Ethical issues surrounding Wal-Mart Sam Walton‚ founded Wal-Mart over forty years ago‚ where it started as a five-and-ten store in Bentonville‚ Arkansas (Stanwick & Stanwick‚ 2009). Since then it has become one of the largest retail stores in the world‚ with an estimated annual sales of close to $300 billion (Stanwick & Stanwick‚ 2009). His business philosophy was to provide low prices to its customers everyday
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Philosopy 108 December 15‚ 2011 Ethical Issues in Economic Globalization Abstract This paper applies a comparative approach to the ethical issues surrounding economic globalization. An analysis of the commonly debated issues and claims is represented by two arguments. Proponents of economic globalization believe that it advances the economic‚ technical‚ cultural‚ and intellectual interests of the global community. Anti-economic globalization proponents believe that it is harmful to global economic
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Ethical Concern The ethical healthcare concern that will be addressed in this paper is the challenge of long waiting lists that patient’s who need help with a medical issue are having to endure. Waiting times and lists are an ethical problems because facilities are essentially obstructing (not on purpose) the care of ill patients (Viberg‚ Forsberg‚ Borowitz‚ Molin‚ 2013). Long waiting times cause inefficiencies in the delivery of healthcare‚ they prolong suffering‚ discomfort a and dissatisfaction
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Every day people face many different issues in their work environments. These issues range from pay related issues to performance issues and among them are the ethical dilemmas that they may face. The moral beliefs that people have are causing plenty of strife in their work places. One particular situation is my husband’s friend and his abuse of working the supply room and using the gas card he was issued by the military for his personal vehicles. My husband has a friend who worked in the supply
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