ETHICAL DILEMMA IN MEDICINE
BY:
Parminder Mann, RN, BSN, CCRN.
Rowan University
In the medical field, the interdisciplinary team members come across a dilemma once in a while in their career. Some Nurse's and Doctors' come across this dilemma more often than others. Working in critical care as an Registered Nurse, the author came across the ethical issue of end of life care in many scenarios. The extent of the problem was that the patient who was 95 years old and had possibly lived her life gracefully was near end of life where anything and everything that was being done for the patient had reached its potential. There were times when, the patient had coded multiple times yet patients' adult children pushed the Medical Doctors to resuscitate the patient besides the fact that the patient had an Advanced Directive stating Do not resuscitate or Do not intubate. The only problem with this case was that patients' adult children had Power of Attorney. Upon involvement of ethics department, the family decided to take the hospital in court of law and filled a law suit. At that moment …show more content…
According to the authors the basic building block starts from the common morality which is set of norms shared by all committed to morality. While applying the four principles of Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-maleficence and Justice, it was concluded that applying the principles is not an easy task. Hence the reason It's challenging in finding ways to solve moral conflicts in biomedical ethics. Gordon et al. (2017), recommended that in addition to methods of specification and balancing, the guiding principles of common morality that works to regulate ideas to solve deep conflicts should also be
BY:
Parminder Mann, RN, BSN, CCRN.
Rowan University
In the medical field, the interdisciplinary team members come across a dilemma once in a while in their career. Some Nurse's and Doctors' come across this dilemma more often than others. Working in critical care as an Registered Nurse, the author came across the ethical issue of end of life care in many scenarios. The extent of the problem was that the patient who was 95 years old and had possibly lived her life gracefully was near end of life where anything and everything that was being done for the patient had reached its potential. There were times when, the patient had coded multiple times yet patients' adult children pushed the Medical Doctors to resuscitate the patient besides the fact that the patient had an Advanced Directive stating Do not resuscitate or Do not intubate. The only problem with this case was that patients' adult children had Power of Attorney. Upon involvement of ethics department, the family decided to take the hospital in court of law and filled a law suit. At that moment …show more content…
According to the authors the basic building block starts from the common morality which is set of norms shared by all committed to morality. While applying the four principles of Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-maleficence and Justice, it was concluded that applying the principles is not an easy task. Hence the reason It's challenging in finding ways to solve moral conflicts in biomedical ethics. Gordon et al. (2017), recommended that in addition to methods of specification and balancing, the guiding principles of common morality that works to regulate ideas to solve deep conflicts should also be