Katie, a 24 year old pregnant female, 33 weeks gestation is admitted to the hospital in sickle cell crisis. Also, she has preeclampsia and is in a tremendous amount of pain. Katie has a medical history of taking opioids and morphine during her pregnancy for pain due to her sickle cell disease. The doctors take Katie right back to the delivery room and prep her for a cesarean section. The baby is born and taken to the Intensive Care Nursery for monitoring due to prematurity and low birth weight.…
Huntington Disease Introduction Case 2 presents a story of two brothers Brain and Jeff, whose father was diagnosed some time ago with Huntington’s disease (HD). Upon realization that the father may not live too long, Brain decided to reconcile with his father. Jeff however cannot forgive him the fact that he left the family and refuses to visit his father. The communication between two brothers ceases to the point that Jeff does not want to know anything about his father and his illness. After Brain learns that he tested positive for the HD, he initially wants to tell his brother about this fact, but ultimately, influenced by negative emotion of anger to Jeff, he changes his mind and decides not share this news with him.…
In the case, “It’s Over, Debbie.” The case raises a lot of ethical concerns. Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, and Role fidelity, are the four ethical principles involving in this case. Each of these principles was neglected or used by the physician handling the patient’s treatment. Autonomy is defined as the capacity to be one’s own person and make one’s own decision without being manipulated by external forces.…
The codes of ethics are a principle of right and wrong. They play a vital role in medicine and are referred to as medical ethics. Medical ethics govern the medical profession by guiding physicians’ meet ethical challenges. The five most common types of ethical problems include ethical dilemma, ethical distress, the dilemma of justice, the locus of authority, and whistleblowing. The current ethical problem that is going to be discussed in this paper is an ethical dilemma.…
Ethics is the formal process of intentionally and critically analyzing with clarity and consistency, the basic of one’s moral judgment (Harman & Cornelis, 2017). According to the AHIMA Code of Ethics, HIM are responsible for the safeguarding of privacy and security of health information, disclosure of health information, development, use, and maintenance of health information systems and health information, and ensuring the accessibility and integrity of health information (AHIMA House of Delegates, 2011). HIM professionals face many ethical problems, sometimes they cannot wait for the law, policies and procedures and other guidelines because decisions must be made prior to the ability of these system to offer guidelines and in these case a code of ethics can guide someone on how to tackle those problems (Flite & Harman, 2013). The ethical values identified by…
Slide10 Ethical dilemmas which nurses face are vast in scope. For example, an elderly patient may want to walk without supervision. The nurse desires to promote independence, but the risk of patient injury due to falls may be great. The dilemma is how to balance the contrasting issues. Which is more important- independence or safety?…
However, the ability to make personal choices requires all necessary information during the decision-making process from health care providers (Ivanov & Oden, 2013). Nurse’s knowledge and skills are powerful and important to aid in the decision making in an ethical manner. Public health nurses have to provide necessary information about disease prevention, health promotion, and treatment to patients during the decision making process ( Ivanov & Oden, 2013). Nonetheless, Ivanov and Oden (2013) indicated that On occasion, the principle of autonomy may be restricted when it causes harm to individuals, populations, or a community.…
The American Nurses Association code of Ethics was created as a guide to help nurses provide quality care while ensuring that all patients are protected and treated equally. Provision four of the ANA has four key points that emphasize the nurse’s responsibility and obligation to his or her patient. The first statement touches on the nurse’s authority, accountability and responsibility for the decisions being made. The second statement emphasizes the nurse’s responsibility to make decisions and take necessary actions to promote health (ANA, 2015, p4). The decisions made by the nurse have to be justifiable and must be patient care centered.…
The nursing code of ethics have been established by nurses to provide guidance for ethical relationships, responsibilities, behaviours and decision-making (Canadian Nurses Association, 2008). Within the code, there are seven primary values that outline the responsibilities central to nursing practice (Canadian Nurses Association, 2008). In regards to the described case, four values have been compromised: promoting health and well-being, promoting and respecting informed decision-making, preserving dignity, and promoting justice. Promoting health and well-being. This Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) value refers to advocating for your patient to ensure that their health is the priority concern (Canadian Nurses Association, 2008).…
Ethical principles are superposes with the legal principles, the two early are a common reason, an objective reason and a legal solution for the benefit of the patient. The clear example is the informed consent that you should practice each patient during their stay of patient. Human dignity is one of the main foundations of the informed consent, that we as future nurse and loyal defenders of the needy obliges us to treat others as we would like us to address. Dignity is something elementary within every person and is common to every individual. Thus, the dignity should be considered as the heritage of everyone, which opposes any invasion of an individual as a fundamental ethical principle.…
In addition, the principle of autonomy is to obey our behavior to principles that express of the rational will and ought to be followed along with universal…
Abstract One of the important principals in medical profession is ethics which lead to no harm. It means the medical professional should not try or experience a method that could end up with more harm the beneficiation. Decision making always has been difficult regarding human life. Nurses, doctors, and all other medical staff always has been dealing with such condition.…
Also, the nurses should assess their ability and mental readiness to take the action without compromising care and compassion. Above mentioned action plan follows the code of ethics because it exhibits the commitment to the patients and the patient’s family, and because they adhere to laws. Although I personally do not wish to be kept alive if I were the patient in this case scenario, I would not have any emotional conflict to respect the patient 's wish or the substitute decision maker 's…
In situations where ethical decisions needs to be made, nurses will require combining every elements of the moral model to resolve the clinical problems. The moral model includes five steps: (1) massage the dilemma, (2) outline the options, (3) resolve the dilemma, (4) act by applying the chosen option, and (5) look back and evaluate the entire process (Guido, 2014). Applying the MORAL model of ethical decision making to the clinical dilemma of the under insured/uninsured not frequently receiving the care they need, a nurse like myself can advocate for standard care for the patients. The first step in the MORAL decision making model helps to explain all areas of the ethical dilemma.…
Values are principles which can vary person to person, they are areas of life which are held with high regard, importance and worth. Areas such as dignity, privacy, respect, honesty and trust are just a few values which are vital in the healthcare setting. Within all healthcare settings there are codes of practice which assist health care professionals to provided and maintain adequate and effective levels of care. These codes provide guidance in relation to the values of professional conduct, ethics and performance, amongst many other areas. By adhering to the codes of practise it means that values are never compromised and therefore levels of care never waiver.…