Today, health care organizations and professionals are faced with many challenges in regards to finding a balance between ethics and law. Ethics in health care, may sometimes be quit challenging, as the solution is to align with the requests of the patients, even if it means violating their own beliefs as a health care professional. Health care ethical principles were put in place as a set of guidelines to be referred to when issues and complications arise. Some of these ethical principles are patient self-determination and autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. The key roles of these principles are to ensure patient safety, and the delivery of quality care. It is at the patient’s discretion to make their own decisions regarding
