Informed consent

Course of Action 1 - Follow Bashir’s Wishes MEDICAL INDICATIONS The principle of Nonmaleficence and Beneficence The patient has severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and adult onset diabetes mellitus. However, the patient’s acute diagnosis is heart attack. This is a critical situation and need to have immediate decision to save her life. However, this is not a terminal situation. The goal of treatment is to prolong the patient’s life. Only if the patient signed an advance directive with…

information from participants doctors, as long as participants are aware of the information that is being requested and sign consent this shouldn’t be a problem, I would need to fully inform potential participants to help them decide whether or not to give informed consent. Previous studies involving minors as participants addressed potential ethical issue by obtaining parental consent to have children a part of the study. For example, in the research I reviewed involving children, researchers…

Medical research has a dark history. For instance, research on syphilis was conducted in Tuskagee, Alabama on poor minority residents, dermatology experiments were performed repeatedly on prisoners, and a stuttering research project in Iowa is known as The Monster Study. Looking back, the details of these studies are horrendous. But hindsight is twenty-twenty and it is easy to cast a critical eye on those that came before us. Ethical standards are a relatively new concept born from the…

Ethical considerations: During my reading, some ethical considerations were noted, however, it was somewhat inadequate. With interviews being conducted, the participants were known to the researcher and anonymity was not possible. Nevertheless, pseudonyms were given to all in an attempt to protect confidentiality, which was used later to describe findings. Even though pseudonyms were given, there was no evidence assuring participants that their identities will not be revealed to the reader and…

There are variants of treatments that are utilized for treating aberrant comportment. One of treatments that is utilized is Cognitive-demeanor therapy. This type of “therapy combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy (Myers, 2008, p.508)”. Cogitative-demeanor therapy is availing people transmute the way they cerebrate, but withal transmute the way they act. By making people cognizant of their irrational negative mentally conceiving, and practicing ways to make positive approach to everyday…

All the subjects participated in this study after providing written informed consent. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Oriental Medicine Hospital of Dongshin University, Suncheon-si, Jeollanam-do, Korea (https://cris.nih.go.kr No. KCT0001211). This study was carried out according to the…

they must get permission from the participants. Obtaining this permission is important because it ensures that participants will be informed regarding the purpose of the project, the procedures, the duration, the risks and benefits, the commitment to confidentiality, the use of the findings and results, and how to resign from the study if desired. Informed consent is critical to the efficacy of the study because it gives the researcher an opportunity to ask other clarifying questions that…

After obtaining ethical approval from the institutional review board and the hospital research ethics committee, informed consents were taken from all patients. Sixty patients between 20-40 years old, American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) I-II, were included in the study at Saad Specialist Hospital, in the period between January 2014 and July 2015. Inclusion criteria for our study were as follows: emergency cesarean needing early delivery in the absence of maternal or fetal compromise…

he third successful volunteer for my research study was Mr. Noah (a pseudonym). Mr. Noah who identified his , name , age and affiliated institution in the optional fields of the informed consent form is a professor holding a PHD and has been teaching for more than 25 years. However, he was selected for the study because he spent significant years teaching in city college of Chicago (CCC). He also has a good experience in dealing with student from multicultural backgrounds in different…

on how data will be collected for this study. This paper will address the main purpose of this research, information about the research, interview structure, questions being asked, advantages of qualitative data-gathering, and the importance of consent and confidentiality during the research. The information being used from this research will help identify on the job hazards while conducting HIV boardings, and help determine new safety protocols to be put in place to protect officers…