Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Issues The ethical dilemma is that the children of the woman with cancer are not being cared for adequately. The nurse must decide if it is ethically and morally sound to tell the school nurse about the daughters’ situation at home. Since the nurse is the caretaker of the mother and knows that she needs to keep her information about her health confidential. However‚ it is affecting the mental stability of her daughters because they are afraid of their mother’s declining
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Ethical Practice in Nursing S.Z‚ a 65 year old Hispanic male‚ is being discharged from hospital after being admitted with a blood sugar of 589. He has been seeing a curandero to manage his diabetes mellitus type II‚ hyperlipidemia‚ and osteoarthritis. He has not taken his prescription medications for these chronic conditions‚ but instead takes traditional medicines the curandero tells him to take. His daughter approaches the nurse with her concerns over her father’s heath and asks the nurse if
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Abstract Organ transplant saves many lives‚ but there are many ethical and moral issues involved in organ transplant. Some of the issues ethical issues involved in transplantation include who gets the organs‚ how many organs each patient gets‚ and how patients move up on the transplant list. There is a shortage of organs available for transplant in regard to the number of patients that need organ transplantation. Would compensation for the organs donated increase the number of people willing to
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(Page 416) in your UGP Text‚ List and Discuss how you would approach an Ethical Dilemma. (1-page‚ single space max). The Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is designed to communicate the fundamental values‚ ethical principles‚ and ethical standards of the social work profession‚ regardless the roles the workers are functioning these codes should always be consulted as guidelines when ethical issues arise while pursuing the best outcome for the Clients. Good human
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boundaries of eye‚ skin and toxicity experimentations‚ I would like to remind you that the true depth of animal testing extends also to more severe medicinal research such as cancer and other terminal diseases. As such‚ there is the constant ethical dilemma to determine if the negative impacts of cruelty to animals arising from such tests outweigh the potential benefits that we reap from scientific breakthroughs and cures. My stand on animal testing has remained clear from the start – Animal testing
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An ethical dilemma most people think of is ones code status. In my recent experience working in the emergency department‚ I have participated in resuscitating many elderly individuals. Even when their code status says full code‚ their power of attorney is telling us to perform all efforts to save the individual. It puts the physician and staff in a sticky situation in which we have seconds to decide. In all circumstances I have been involved in‚ the physician orders to resuscitate the patient
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Mental Health Professionals encounter many ethical questions and dilemmas of informed consent in their everyday practice‚ research‚ and teaching. It is imperative that those of us‚ who are trained to provide the most intimate of care to some of the most vulnerable individuals‚ understand our responsibility to ensure that the service which we provide is grounded in a sound and ethical framework. 1.1 Unethical characteristics Although rarely mutually exclusive‚ attitudes of most mental health professionals
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Emergency Medicine and the Ethical Dilemmas Luisa Martin HCA 322 Instructor Thomas December 5‚ 2010 Picture this scenario: You are working in the emergency room of a public hospital where the inflow of patients is higher than the available beds. You are treating an elderly man who is breathless and cyanosed. While you assess whether he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or heart failure‚ he becomes drowsy and starts gasping. You quickly intubate him with some difficulty‚ prolonging
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Running Head: HOW DNR CAUSES AN ETHICAL DILEMMA How DNR Causes an Ethical Dilemma Deann Morgan HCA 322‚ Health Care Ethics and Medical Law Dr. David Cole January 22‚ 2010 Abstract This paper will present an argument of how the process of do not resuscitate (DNR) results in an ethical dilemma for workers in the healthcare field. In presenting the argument‚ this
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Project Reflection Paper Autonomy is the right to have freedom in terms of pursuing your life with independence as an individual. Autonomy can be divided into three different type of categories known as moral‚personal‚ and political. Moral autonomy focuses on Kant’s idea of following the guidelines of what is morally justified rather than ensuing how or what other people are doing. Personal autonomy occurs when one is allowed to make choices for themselves and do what they please without any say
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