Ethics of care

Ethics in nursing practice is a set of guideline that healthcare professionals practice. By using these guidelines it ensure that healthcare professionals include these morals within their clinical practice to make sure that they are safe and ethically correct (Butts & Rich 2012, p. 3). This assignment is based on an ethical dilemma between a healthcare professional and a patient. I believe that because Sam is the nurse who provided care to Lee that there is an ethical breach and that the…

situation. It assumed that anybody confronted with the same situation should also act in the same way (Brook, 2007). The differences between the two theoretical perspectives can be easily be made especially as it concerns the nursing professional ethics. Utilitarian always assume that human action is based on whether such an action is good or bad, and that is done on the decision maker’s well being as well as those persons that take part in that decision making. It is quite different from…

other things like fighting in school. From that class, I learned that as a parent you have to be balance and you have to teach your kids that ethics and respect are just as important as getting good grades. As a child my mother never specifically told me about the golden rule, which is to do unto others what you want done to you. Even though she never said it was almost common sense at a young age. This concept was one of the earliest lessons I had in my life because my mom teachers and…

Issues Arising from the Scenario As mentioned earlier, respect for autonomy, as one of the Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics, will be used in May’s case. From the term itself, this principle involves to respect the decision-making capacities of an autonomous person, enabling him to make choices based on reasoned informations. Varelius (2012) believed that autonomy is so important because there are certain cases where patients should be allowed to make their own choices that would serve…

suicide. This discussion will first include a summarization of journal articles that discuss an ethical issue in health care which in this case is physician assisted suicide. Second, include a description of the portions in SALPNs code of ethics and how and why they relate to the chosen issue. Next, after taking everything into consideration with the articles and SALPNs code of ethics I will discuss how assisted suicide relates to the nursing profession. Lastly, I will discuss my position as a…

The current event I will be using is an excellent representation of how business ethics and morals can conflict with the pursuit of profits. Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, recently raised the price of a drug relied upon by AIDS patients. This was not a small raise in price; Shkreli raised the price astronomically, from $13.50 to $700 a pill. The instant question I had when reading of this, was what makes Shkreli thinks that this is okay? For as quick as the mainstream media was…

1) According to Aristotelian virtue ethics, the use of this nootropic drug can be considered morally right. Firstly in the perspective of college students, in the pursuit of happiness, or in their case success, this cognitive drug is nothing to scoff at. It allows them to perform at their personal best which will eventually result in their happiness or having a good life, a value of eudaimonism. This is especially true since there are no side effects that would cause said good life to take a…

The definition of ethics according to google is the moral principles that govern a persons or groups behavior. Ethics basically is the rules we set for ourselves so we can sleep at night, the rules we live by or our moral code. A person’s ethical stand point is very flexible and can change from one situation to another. Unlike “Law” which is ethics more rigid sibling who sees life in black and white, right and wrong. Ethics sees the world in a whole bunch of different shades of gray. For example…

While this may be the belief of some, institutions will have to continue the conversations regarding how to promote ethics education and develop an evaluation tool to assess its effectiveness. The biggest challenge in research ethic lies not in an institution’s inability to articulate policy but an individual’s commitment and belief regarding their role in the ethics pipeline. Research in the area of a correlation between an individual’s ethical training and their ethical behavior remains…

Dr. Matthews who is the assigned clinical psychologists to Irina’s case. She is 13 years old and is Arabic. She is from a complete different culture. Irina was assaulted and perhaps raped. Irina and her parents had no desire to communicate about the sexual assault due to cultural views. Based on their views this unfortunate event would make her incompetent to be married. According to the APA principle E, and it states that Psychologists are obligated to honor clients’ rights to…