Introduction:
The Case of the Careless Caregiver is about the care of Grace H who retired 10 years ago as a high school English teacher in Pine Junction, due to early signs of dementia. After her retirement from teaching, Grace went to live at Happy Valley Nursing Home where her Dementia progressed into Alzheimer’s disease. After living at Happy Valley Nursing Home for nine years and appears to be content with her living situation, Grace started showing marked changes , like eating less, staying in bed, complaining of being tired, and being paler than usual. After consulting with her staff the Director of Nursing at the nursing home decided to send Grace to the hospital to see what was causing her listlessness, where her treating physician …show more content…
The most important information that needed to be identified before care started was Grace advanced care directive. More information was needed and The Director of Nursing, the Administrator, and the nursing staff should have gathered more information before making decision for more care. They should have checked Grace advanced care directive in her chart. The advanced directive may have stipulated that nothing extraordinary should be done in the event she was dying. The nursing staff did not think of Grace’s advanced directive when they started making plans about her care, to find out what was causing her illness and when they called her brother to get permission to take her to the community hospital. In this case it is fair to think that the administrator and the Director of Nursing didn’t think Grace was dying, but simply that her body was not making enough …show more content…
It begins with a sensibility that when we become excellent human beings, we develop and fulfil our most important capacities as human beings. Virtue ethics place emphasis on motives and development of morality rather than rules or actions people or society are supposed to follow. Virtue Ethics places emphasis on the moral character and goodness of the people than just primarily action and also concentrates on what we as a society ought to do and not just what kind of society we ought to be. The argument against Virtue Ethics are how to apply them to moral dilemmas and sometimes it is hard to identify the virtues, as they are no specific directions to aid in decision making or dilemmas, and sometimes people find themselves in situations where virtue ethics provide no answers in situations where decisions needs to be
The Case of the Careless Caregiver is about the care of Grace H who retired 10 years ago as a high school English teacher in Pine Junction, due to early signs of dementia. After her retirement from teaching, Grace went to live at Happy Valley Nursing Home where her Dementia progressed into Alzheimer’s disease. After living at Happy Valley Nursing Home for nine years and appears to be content with her living situation, Grace started showing marked changes , like eating less, staying in bed, complaining of being tired, and being paler than usual. After consulting with her staff the Director of Nursing at the nursing home decided to send Grace to the hospital to see what was causing her listlessness, where her treating physician …show more content…
The most important information that needed to be identified before care started was Grace advanced care directive. More information was needed and The Director of Nursing, the Administrator, and the nursing staff should have gathered more information before making decision for more care. They should have checked Grace advanced care directive in her chart. The advanced directive may have stipulated that nothing extraordinary should be done in the event she was dying. The nursing staff did not think of Grace’s advanced directive when they started making plans about her care, to find out what was causing her illness and when they called her brother to get permission to take her to the community hospital. In this case it is fair to think that the administrator and the Director of Nursing didn’t think Grace was dying, but simply that her body was not making enough …show more content…
It begins with a sensibility that when we become excellent human beings, we develop and fulfil our most important capacities as human beings. Virtue ethics place emphasis on motives and development of morality rather than rules or actions people or society are supposed to follow. Virtue Ethics places emphasis on the moral character and goodness of the people than just primarily action and also concentrates on what we as a society ought to do and not just what kind of society we ought to be. The argument against Virtue Ethics are how to apply them to moral dilemmas and sometimes it is hard to identify the virtues, as they are no specific directions to aid in decision making or dilemmas, and sometimes people find themselves in situations where virtue ethics provide no answers in situations where decisions needs to be