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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societies to function within an organized set of rules. However‚ the law cannot be applied to all situations. Some circumstances are special--for example‚ the case of Cassandra Callender. In such a case‚ the ethical dilemmas that arise‚ blur what is just‚ so the people decide what is ethical. In 2016‚ Cassandra was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL). If treated with chemotherapy‚ HL has a 85% cure rate (Nalpathanchil 1). However‚ in modern society‚ some people prefer to use more natural methods
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W7 Journal Entry 7: Ethical Dilemmas Patricia Smith Grantham University Theories & Research in Nursing NUR401 Kelli Reid RN/MSN/MBA May 14‚ 2013 W7 Journal Entry 7: Ethical Dilemmas The need for nursing research is evident. With the evolution of evidenced based practice for nursing‚ only the most up to date or current best researched evidence is being used or promoted at the bedside (Burns & Grove‚ 2009‚ p. 16). Although this need for nursing research is evident‚ such research
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Week 3 Individual Assignment I - Ethical Dilemma p. 59-61 Read the "Ethical Dilemma" in Chapter 3 found on pages 59-61 in your Ferrell text. Provide a response to each of the four questions at the end of the ethical dilemma on page 61. 1.) Keeping in mind the facts and timeline of this situation‚ discuss Jackie’s situation in term of its legal and ethical issues. Jackie’s ethical issue was that she slept and carried on a relationship with her manager Curtis. As far as legal issues‚ if Jackie
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reserves in the 19th century‚ choosing instead to live by their wits and traditional teachings in the woods. Subject to what modern medicine would call epileptic seizures‚ Niska is deemed by her tribe to have inherited her father’s skills as a shaman and a windigo-killer. Since windigos manifest themselves in humans who have practiced cannibalism‚ getting rid of them involves what white society would call murder‚ and indeed Niska’s father was executed as a murderer by the white courts. The constant
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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)‚ was established by Congress in 1990 "to protect cemeteries on federal and tribal lands‚ and to provide a way to return the human skeletal material and associated funerary objects in the nation’s scientific and museum collections to culturally affiliated tribes" (Jew 4). The enforcement of this law‚ however‚ has been met with several challenges‚ as a conflict rages between the archeologists who value "these remains and objects as
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In the film main character Howard Campbell Jr. was faced with some ethical dilemmas and tough choices that would determine the path of his life. I determined four actions in the story that were significant in steering Howard Campbell Jr. life. Listed as follows: the choice to stay in Germany while his parents left to America‚ becoming an American Spy‚ Returning to Israel for trial‚ and finally committing suicide. In this essay I will determine which action were justified or unjustified‚ using the beliefs
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Decision-making skills in a business environment are critical for continued company growth and progress. Personal or business ethics can have a substantial impact on how decisions are made. In order for decisions to be ethically defensible it must contain specific elements. The basic elements in ethical decisions are ground rules. Ground rules can be composed of informal ethical believes of business ethics. The determining factor of an ethical decision will be based on which ground rule is used.
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an obligation to ethical practice‚ but there will be times social workers hit a wall and will not have an easy answer to some ethical dilemmas (Seabury & Garvin‚ 2011). When a social worker is hesitant about what to do during an ethical dilemma‚ he or she needs to request assistance from a supervisor and if the social worker needs to make an exception to an ethical
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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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