I.) Introduction:
Ethics is a type of philosophy that studies ideal human behavior and ideal ways of being. This philosophy will aid in the understanding and distinguishing between right and wrong. Ethics implication isn’t always apparent and people have different opinions of what is right and wrong. Due to these different opinions of what is right and wrong one may find themselves in an ethical dilemma. In order to improve and solve ethical dilemmas one must have ethical relativism. Ethical relativism is the belief that it is justifiable that ethics and morals differ from person to person and society as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore an ethical dilemma and the components, such as the stakeholders, policies, and …show more content…
Almost every decision that those in healthcare make have ethical implications. These implications have the ability to affect patients and healthcare professionals. Patients and the patient’s family can experience a lot of stress when decisions need to be made in regards to invasive procedures or end-of-life-care. When patients are dealing with illness and families are reacting to their loved ones illness decisions become more difficult to make for everyone involved. Members of the healthcare team will aid in the decision making process by providing information on various procedures or treatments. The healthcare team may question and disagree with the decisions made by the patient and their family, which is why one may find themselves facing an ethical dilemma (Butts & Rich, 2016).
According to Rohland (2016), “an ethical dilemma is a complicated situation in which one must make a difficult choice or decision in the face of conflicting morals, or the values one uses to determine the difference between right and wrong” (p.1). An ethical dilemma is composed of components that make it hard to determine what the right thing to do is (Rohland, 2016). When a person is dealing with an ethical dilemma none of the available options may feel right. In fact the two or more available options may all feel wrong. (Butts & Rich, …show more content…
Then, we would start treating him again as he requested. I often times wanted to say during their conservations about his health to the sister-in-law that the decisions and choices are his to make not hers. I wanted to tell him that he had to make up his mind on what he wanted for himself and to disregard how his sister-in-law feels about it. It felt as if the patient was too ashamed to just give up on his health in front of sister-in-law and he didn’t want to let her down. In this situation I was faced with two options and neither of the options felt right. One thing was apparent in this situation a final decision needed to be made. This decision included if we continue the treatment or if we would stop all treatment along with making the patient comfortable during the dying
Ethics is a type of philosophy that studies ideal human behavior and ideal ways of being. This philosophy will aid in the understanding and distinguishing between right and wrong. Ethics implication isn’t always apparent and people have different opinions of what is right and wrong. Due to these different opinions of what is right and wrong one may find themselves in an ethical dilemma. In order to improve and solve ethical dilemmas one must have ethical relativism. Ethical relativism is the belief that it is justifiable that ethics and morals differ from person to person and society as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to identify and explore an ethical dilemma and the components, such as the stakeholders, policies, and …show more content…
Almost every decision that those in healthcare make have ethical implications. These implications have the ability to affect patients and healthcare professionals. Patients and the patient’s family can experience a lot of stress when decisions need to be made in regards to invasive procedures or end-of-life-care. When patients are dealing with illness and families are reacting to their loved ones illness decisions become more difficult to make for everyone involved. Members of the healthcare team will aid in the decision making process by providing information on various procedures or treatments. The healthcare team may question and disagree with the decisions made by the patient and their family, which is why one may find themselves facing an ethical dilemma (Butts & Rich, 2016).
According to Rohland (2016), “an ethical dilemma is a complicated situation in which one must make a difficult choice or decision in the face of conflicting morals, or the values one uses to determine the difference between right and wrong” (p.1). An ethical dilemma is composed of components that make it hard to determine what the right thing to do is (Rohland, 2016). When a person is dealing with an ethical dilemma none of the available options may feel right. In fact the two or more available options may all feel wrong. (Butts & Rich, …show more content…
Then, we would start treating him again as he requested. I often times wanted to say during their conservations about his health to the sister-in-law that the decisions and choices are his to make not hers. I wanted to tell him that he had to make up his mind on what he wanted for himself and to disregard how his sister-in-law feels about it. It felt as if the patient was too ashamed to just give up on his health in front of sister-in-law and he didn’t want to let her down. In this situation I was faced with two options and neither of the options felt right. One thing was apparent in this situation a final decision needed to be made. This decision included if we continue the treatment or if we would stop all treatment along with making the patient comfortable during the dying