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 his
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Nurses effectuate hundreds of critical‚ health-related tasks every day. In some cases‚ these decisions test their professional and personal morality. Nursing ethics codes help caregivers maintain a safe recovery setting and remember to consider patient needs from several viewpoints. The guidelines remind the caregivers to treat all patrons equally and individually while protecting their privacy in ways that may not seem readily apparent. These recommendations also implore caregivers to seek justice
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The Four Examples of Ethical Dilemmas Conflict of interest exists when a businessperson is faced with a situation in which an action benefiting one person or group has potential to harm another. Another way to but is a business decision may be influence by the potential gain. When I owed a restaurant it was not right for a manager to work at another restaurant at the same time. Honesty and integrity is valued very high among employers. An employee who is honest can be counted on to tell
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The Ethical Dilemma of a Patient’s Right to Die Is it wrong to discontinue a ventilator even at the patient’s request‚ with the expectation that the patient will die? Health care providers encounter ethical dilemmas such as this one on a daily basis in hospital and long term care settings. Choosing to withdraw life support poses one of the most prominent dilemmas in bioethics. Health care clinicians‚ which includes physicians‚ advance practice nurses and registered nurses‚ must utilize moral
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component that can be used. As a reminder‚ the blood product that your daughter would receive is not whole blood. There are several different components of the blood that can be transfused; although‚ the red blood cells is the most common type of transfusion. Since your child needs blood because she might be showing signs such as weakness‚ shortness of breath‚ pale‚ fatigue‚ dizziness‚ not being able to concentrate and increase in heart rate the physician will explain the reason and other types
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According to the textbook‚ there three ethical dilemmas in law enforcement such as the officer did not take the appropriate actions‚ officer finds the appropriate action is difficult to do‚ and officer seen breaking the law was very tempting. Law enforcement professionals are held to a higher standard due to their ability to make arrest and to ensure the public safety. The perception of law enforcement professionals to the public is law enforcement professionals losses their credibility to keep the
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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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This literature review is going to discuss the ethical‚ religious and logical concerns raised regarding the designer babies. Considering the questions raised about the advancement of humanity through technology‚ two opposing positions are generally discussed. One group accepts the path of human evolution and transformation‚ and Ray Kurzweil was one of them. He believed that one day in the future we will reach the point of “Singularity” defined as “a future period during which the pace of technological
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needs and individuals receiving care. However‚ nurses are expected to be professional‚ transparent‚ therapeutic and ethical with their clients. Similarly‚ nurses are expected to work ethically and working through ethical challenges that arise in their practice with individuals‚ clients and within public health systems (Canada Nurses Association‚ 2008). The dilemma deals with both ethical and legal issues‚ it involves a professional nurse by the name of Mr. Ying and one of his elderly patients‚ who is
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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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