Ethical dilemma

Ethical Dilemmas Advocacy campaign for substance abuse will bring out ethical dilemmas which may hamper or halt the process. Strategies to implement SBIRT among school-going adolescents will show moral judgment and violation of autonomy. This campaign may also be viewed as a violation of privacy by adolescents as it screens for personal habits. Parents will look at SBIRT as persuasion or coercion as schools recommend it. Both parents and the adolescents will fail to understand the bigger picture…

1) Policy officers have dealt with several ethical dilemmas throughout the years. Occasionally they think they are making the right decision either because they think it is right or because they are told to do certain actions in a certain way. The system itself has its own code of ethics, and sometimes it might contradict a police officer’s belief. All police departments have their own value statements, mission statements, or even a code of ethics. The Frontline documentary is one of the…

Ethical and moral dilemmas seem to affect decision maker at several levels during Katrina. At the federal level President Bush was faced with the dilemma of whether to order a federal takeover of the crisis management from state and local government. The issue of letting local officials to continue to handle the situation even when he knew they were overwhelmed and federal assistance was late in coming was balanced against thoughts of how much can be done to help the crisis if he were to…

“Doing Good” May Cause Harm “An ethical dilemma is a situation in which an individual is compelled to choose between two actions that will affect the welfare of a sentient being, and both actions are reasonably justified as being good, neither action is readily justified as being good.” (Butss & Rick, 2012) Nurses can face ethical dilemmas everyday within their practice. Canadian Nurses Association [CAN](2008) states when nurses are in the situation of an ethical dilemma it is important that…

An ethical dilemma is a complex situation that challenges our moral values and beliefs. We are presented with choices/options each day, and our decision to pick one option over the other is usually based on our ethical stance, beliefs, and values. Once these decisions are made, there are consequences, which could be positively or negatively impactful. Abortion has been a very sensitive topic over the years and once again one of the topics that takes center stage during this election year. There…

services outside of their boundaries of competence. The contradiction of these two standards lead to an ethical dilemma that many mental health professionals face. Shiles (2009) created a set of eight questions examining the appropriateness of referring a client. These questions have provided mental health professionals with an additional resource to facilitate a solution for this ethical dilemma. Shiles argued, to prevent discriminatory referrals mental health professionals should…

Ethical Dilemma: a paper Since starting nursing school and our clinicals I have meet amazing patients, their families. I have also meet some of the most passionate care providers that I would sincerely like to emulate when I pass the NCLEX and start my journey as a nurse. When I was thinking about an ethical dilemma there have been several that we have witnessed but none of them where done with malicious intent. There was always a “good” reason. As a person that is on the sidelines you see…

The ethical dilemma I encountered was when I used to work in a Neurosurgery ICU floor. We received a patient from the OR department who suffered a gunshot wound to the temple and was clinging to life with unstable vital signs and a poor GCS status. Step 1) Identify the problem: With the patient having a poor prognosis based on no significant improvement after initial treatment in ER and eventual surgical intervention, the family continues to request that all life-saving interventions be done…

Analyzing an Ethical Dilemma An ethical dilemma is when an individual is in a situation where it is hard to decide the right choice, whether it is because the right decision is not clear, or the choice has some negative consequences (Pollock, 2015, p.15). I have faced a couple of ethical dilemmas in my life. For this essay I will talk about my most recent ethical dilemma and my emotional and intellectual responses along with influential factors that affected my decision. Background I lived…

Ethics plays a major role in our everyday lives. In order to be an ethical individual, you must become aware of the knowledge of goodness. According to Socrates, “If we are ignorant of what is truly good, our actions may well be aimed at what we believe to be good, but is truly evil.” Socrates believed that no individuals pursue evil ends and when they do this action it is because they saw good in it. An ethical dilemma I once endured when I was in high school was being dishonest about the…