Introduction Since the time of Enlightenment‚ Western ideas of health have been dominated by the biomedical approach. The basis on which these opinions are founded is that an individual is not responsible for their illness and that the mind and body work separately from each other. Health‚ in the eyes of this approach can be deemed as simply the absence of disease. Part of the reason this vision of health has dominated so much‚ is that it’s practiced by the majority of the health professionals and
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Situation ethics was developed in the 1960’s by an Anglican Priest‚ Joseph Fletcher. Situation Ethics is an ethical system which embraces the fact that love is the only moral criterion and all of our decisions/actions are to be judged by the question‚ “What is the most loving thing to do?” This question shows that whatever is the most loving thing to do in a situation is considered the right thing. Situation ethics means that there is no ethical standard that can be uniformly or consistently applied
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Communication Situation Analysis The rapid advancement of modern technology has empowered us with multitudes of avenues for effective delivery of our communications. The route we chose should be carefully analyzed before use as each delivery may require specific results. Communicating important messages across global or local organizations are complicated‚ and may require special skills or particular medium depending on the audience one is trying to reach. There may also be ramifications in certain
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Assignments 1. Describe a clinical situation in which you were tasked to work with a patient that was experiencing pain. Briefly describe the situation (1-2 sentences) and tell us if there were any barriers present that prevented the patient from achieving pain relief (1 sentence). If you have not had experience with patients in pain‚ hypothesize what the situation might be like‚ from what you already know. Currently‚ I work as a nurse on a medical/surgical floor for mainly neurosurgery patients
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What is Ethics? A few years ago‚ sociologist Raymond Baumhart asked business people‚ “What does ethics mean to you?” Among the replies were the following: “Ethics has to do with what my feelings tell me is right or wrong.” “Ethics has to do with my religious beliefs.” “Being ethical is doing what the law requires.” “Ethics consists of the standards of behavior our society accepts.” These replies might be typical of your own. The meaning of “ethics” is hard to pin down and views of many
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COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH The communicative approach was developed by Robert Langs‚ a revolutionary psychoanalyst who is the author of 47 hands-on books on emotional life‚ the human condition‚ dreams‚ and the evolved design and operations of the emotion-processing mind. His books are written for both the general public and mental health professionals. They are distinguished by his highly original approach to the human mind and by the recognition of its extremely influential unconscious activities
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brief description of his upbringing and career background and will go on to discuss the main areas of his theory. The humanistic philosophy will be explained briefly and will lead on to Carl Rogers’ own humanistic beliefs and the birth of client-centred therapy. Carl Rogers’ theory of the human personality will be explored‚ mainly Rogers’ idea of self and the self-concept and a person’s natural actualising tendency. This will lead on to his beliefs around the acquisition of human dysfunction‚ primarily
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DAGMAR is Defining Advertising Goals for Measured Advertising Results. It is basically an approach to advertising planning and a precise method for selecting and quantifying goals and for using those goals to measure performance. Russel H. Colley (1961) pioneered this approach where to establish an explicit link between ad goals and ad results‚ Colley distinguished 52 advertising goals that might be used with respect to a single advertisement‚ a year’s campaign for a product or a company’s entire
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accept · Consistency: standards applied similarly to similar cases · Reversibility: standards that apply no matter who "makes" the rules These are‚ in a sense‚ the rules of the "ethics game"‚ no matter which school or approach to ethics one feels the closest identity. The Utilitarian approach is perhaps the most familiar and easiest to understand of all the four approaches to ethics. Whether we think about it or not‚ most of us are doing utilitarian ethics a much of the time‚ especially those of us in
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Objectivist way of approach addresses further logical reasoning‚ compared to subjectivist sense of defining and identifying social problems claims that “issues become problems once society sees or decides they are harmful” (Lecture: “Defining Social Problems”). Objective method seeks a link between certain social problems‚ like in the lecture‚ it gives an example of health and obesity. Critics argue that people with obesity is harming condition as they cost society millions of dollars in health
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