personal thoughts and values concerning abortion and extramarital affairs and how I would personally provide ethical counseling to a client’s struggling with abortion and or extramarital affair issues. Next I will discuss client’s right to autonomy‚ nonmaleficence‚ beneficence‚ justice and fidelity in ethical counseling. Then I will cover the factors that must be considered in “duty to warn” and also “duty to protect” obligations as a counselor. Finally‚ I will discuss client record keeping; a client’s
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patient. It is a nurses’ obligation to decide what is in the best interest of the patient. Using the Josephson Institute of Ethics ’ "Five Steps of Principled Reasoning" (Model‚ 2007) helps a nurse to encounter such dilemmas. The first principle‚ nonmaleficence‚ or do no harm‚ it is directly tied to a nurse ’s duty to protect the patient ’s safety. The second principle is beneficence and is at the heart of everyday nursing practice. Each of the following forms of beneficence requires taking action by
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future. In this case‚ there is no mention of possible endodontic treatment or replacing the extracted tooth (if extraction is required) with an implant. Paternalism violates this patient’s autonomy and self-determination‚ and ethically involves nonmaleficence due to not giving the patient the right to informed consent; thus‚ paternalism is the opposite of informed consent. This patient did not have all the information needed to make an informed decision for care. Informed consent is highly recommended
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decision‚ ethical consideration are sometimes put aside. This is why Beauchamp and Childress (2001) have created a list of four principles to approach ethics to help paramedics be better clinicians. These principles are for a sense of justice‚ nonmaleficence‚ beneficience and respect of autonomy. The control of medicines by Paramedics in the United Kingdom (UK) are governed by British and European legislations as well as the Medical Medicines Act of 1968. This act was created to define three types
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Principle A‚ Beneficence and nonmaleficence fits because this principle is stated to protect the safety and well-being of the participants in the study. We can assume this protection includes for short-term and long-term well-being of participants. However‚ in Milgram’s original study and
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Laura is a nurse working in the Intensive care. The physician tells Laura that she needs to give an injection of Vistaril to a patient. Laura makes sure that the order is documented in the medical record. The medication comes up from the pharmacy‚ she checks it against the physician order‚ and finds it to be correct. She walks into the patient’s room and checks the patient’s identification to make sure it is the right patient. Laura gives the injection to the patient’s right upper outer quadrant
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issues‚ then work to create services within the community that could benefit this patient and others. Collaboration Creating collaborative relationships between healthcare providers is essential for the APN (Hamric‚ 2014). These relationships create better patient care and decrease the overall costs of healthcare by decreasing duplication of services. Hamric (2014) writes‚ “Patients assume that their health care providers communicate and collaborate effectively: thus‚ patient dissatisfaction with
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Organ procurement is another ethical issue involved in organ transplantation. It is about procuring‚ transferring and handling of an organ for transplantation. Procurement involves moral judgment in obtaining organs and death determination. Removal is warranted morally when the decision is out from donor’s autonomy after he or she is fully informed and given voluntary consent. (Um‚ 1998‚ p.67) It is self-determination and people can refuse or voluntarily accept to donate their organs. However‚ it
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may be neither legal or ethical. For example‚ when a nurse makes a medication error and does not report it. ETHICAL DUTIES Nurses have many ethical duties to their clients. The main ethical duties are: nonmaleficence‚ beneficence‚ fidelity‚ veracity‚ and justice. The duty of nonmaleficence is the duty to do no harm. The nurse first needs to ask him or herself what harm is. When a nurse gives an injection she is causing the patient pain but she is also preventing additional harm such as disease
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We can define ethical dilemmas as induced chaos between two values in a decision-making circumstance causing difficulty in determining which one is more reliable (Akfert‚ 2012). I will adopt Kitchener and Anderson model of Critical-Evaluative Ethical Judgment to help minimize my liability risks as a therapist being sensitive to the moral dimensions of practice (Welfel‚ 2013): • Identify the problem: determining the nature and dimensions of the dilemma‚ the effects on all stakeholders‚ and sociocultural
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