“The underlying ethical debates in the push and pull to permit access to cannabis for therapeutic use in the United States rely on ancient ethical virtues and can create a classic ethical dilemma in which both sides have ethical arguments to support opposing conclusions. Nonmalfeasance is the ethical virtue that means do no harm, a phrase often attributed to the ancient Hippocratic Oath” (Philipsen, Butler, Simon-Waterman, & Artis, 2014).
“Beneficence is the virtue that can be described as to do all the good you can.
Those who focus on possible side effects of marijuana may argue nonmalfeasance. Those who see the unrelieved suffering of a patient and who intervene to change laws denying that patient access to therapeutic marijuana are often driven to do so by a strong value of beneficence” (Philipsen, Butler, Simon-Waterman, & Artis, 2014). …show more content…
From this perspective, the role of the APRN and other health care professionals is to educate people about their options. Both those promoting paternalism and those promoting autonomy value beneficence and nonmalfeasance, but they disagree on which should prevail” (Philipsen, Butler, Simon-Waterman, & Artis, 2014). Advocacy, or working to support a cause or the best interest of others, is another ethical virtue. As informed and trusted members of the patient care team, APRNs have an ethical duty to advocate for patients that arises from personal virtues, from the call to serve the greater good, and from the deontologic code of ethics of our professional organizations (Philipsen, Butler, Simon-Waterman, & Artis,
“Beneficence is the virtue that can be described as to do all the good you can.
Those who focus on possible side effects of marijuana may argue nonmalfeasance. Those who see the unrelieved suffering of a patient and who intervene to change laws denying that patient access to therapeutic marijuana are often driven to do so by a strong value of beneficence” (Philipsen, Butler, Simon-Waterman, & Artis, 2014). …show more content…
From this perspective, the role of the APRN and other health care professionals is to educate people about their options. Both those promoting paternalism and those promoting autonomy value beneficence and nonmalfeasance, but they disagree on which should prevail” (Philipsen, Butler, Simon-Waterman, & Artis, 2014). Advocacy, or working to support a cause or the best interest of others, is another ethical virtue. As informed and trusted members of the patient care team, APRNs have an ethical duty to advocate for patients that arises from personal virtues, from the call to serve the greater good, and from the deontologic code of ethics of our professional organizations (Philipsen, Butler, Simon-Waterman, & Artis,