Allocating Resources

Ethical dilemmas exist everywhere around us in everyday situations. Something as simple as picking up a piece of trash off the floor to whether you should use a previously written paper from a separate class for a current assignment in this class. It exists in reality and even on television shows. How, then, do people resolve these ethical dilemmas and how do they defend their decisions? Nurse Jackie is a television series impregnated with ethical dilemmas, especially in medical care. In this paper, I will discuss the ethical issues found in the “Tiny Bubbles” episode of Nurse Jackie. I will further discuss the ethical reasoning with support of ethical principles. In addition, I will discuss how patient’s autonomy and non-maleficence principle of bioethics plays a role in decision making. Overall, there was a difficult struggle on the ethical theory of and utilitarianism, with ethical relativism playing a huge factor.

the hurricane and to the lack of transportation. Healthcare system is an institution that delivers health care to the populations in need of medical care. The healthcare’s personnel are well trained and have dedicated their lives in providing health care to everyone who enter the institution. They are engaged to provide care to each person regardless of their disease, age, sex, social class or the stage of their illness, even if they are constrained by the careful use of the resources available. But sometimes, in extreme emergencies (wars, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods) where there are not enough medications, medical supplies or even limited resources for evacuation, some patients have to die, while others will get the care they need to live. That’s exactly what happened in 2005, at New Orleans’ Memorial Hospital after the passage of Hurricane Katrina. “After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Doctors made ad hoc decisions about which group of patients to evacuate from hospitals when floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed” (Fink, 1). The next lines will focus on some bioethical principles implicated, the advantages and disadvantages of using a utilitarian theory, the most moral theory, and whether the clinicians profiled achieved an ethical outcome in the case of Memorial Hospital.

Moreover, an emphasis is imposed on the rights of a single patient to commit an act or decision even though it is in contrast with the views of the others. In regards to the ethical dilemma, a nurse could not justify the morality of the two possible choices based on their results and consequences. The Deontological approach would encourage the health care staff as well as the patient to ask themselves the most righteous choice for their situation. With this in mind, a combination of ethical theories can also be employed to give light to the dilemma. In view of this, another ethical approach could be applied to solve the issue, and this is the Right-based approach. This theory also aim to promote the rights of every person, and that, they are indispensable just to make ends meet. However, not all ethical theories can be incorporated in every dilemma in a health care setting because their foundations would contradict one another. In order to provide an effective and efficient solution, nurses should be knowledgeable of the principles enveloping each of the ethical theories and should be wise to apply them in appropriate issues and

There are many ethical dilemmas that occur daily in our hospitals across the world. Not everyone agrees with standards and policies that are required in hospitals or even with the law. If not everyone obeys the law, ethical cases form. In Springfield, Missouri, a holistic nurse got fired for fighting against Cox South hospital policies. Carla Brock has been a nurse at Cox South hospital and not only refused the flu shot, but also refused to wear a mask. She refused due to religious beliefs, she gets short of breath while wearing the mask, and she feels the mask is meant to intimidate and humiliate those who refuse the shot. The ethical question in this case study is to decide if Carla should have been fired for not wearing a mask after refusing the flu shot and what are other potential proposals. The four-way method will separate out what are the truths, consequences, fairness, and character, of this ethical case study.

In this case, physician-assisted death is the action in question. Once foreseeable, outcomes are determined, utilitarians review the benefits and the consequences of a physician-assisted death for all the parties involved. Then, a course of action is selected that provides the most benefits and reduces the negative consequences. This approach is direct and logical.

Does human life have intrinsic value? When considering the value of human life, I think it is very important to understand that the value of life is inherent and cannot be determined by how it is used. Due to this, we cannot use the value of life as a standard to judge upon because the value of human life is equally intrinsic. Therefore, the organ’s value must be highly considered as well as preserving the greatest amount of life. In this paper I will contend that the God Squad’s system is flawed because it fails to consider how the resource could be used most effectively through establishing instrumental value of human life. I will also argue that the essential value should be the prosperity of the organ and patient in order to ensure the organ is not wasted. Therefore, I propose that Rhonda Ryder should be put on the list.

This assignment will discuss a case involving an individual known to me. It centres on the real and contentious issue of the “right to die”, specifically in the context of physician-assisted death. This issue is widely debated in the public eye for two reasons. The first considers under what conditions a person can choose when to die and the second considers if someone ever actually has a ‘right to die’. The following analysis will consider solutions to the ethical dilemma of physician-assisted death through the lens of three ethical theories. It will also take into account the potential influence of an individual’s religious beliefs

The need for organ donations creates another ethical dilemma for Emergency Room Physicians. “Obtaining organs from emergency room patients has long been considered off-limits in the United States because of ethical and logistical concerns” (Stein, 2010). The shortage of organs available for transplant has caused many patients die while waiting. A pilot project from the federal government “has begun promoting an alternative that involves surgeons taking organs, within minutes, from patients whose hearts have stopped beating but who have not been declared brain-dead” (Stein, 2010). “The Uniform Determination of Death Act

Recently, over 90,000 American men, women, and children are waiting for new kidneys. However, only about 16,500 kidneys were donated for transplant operations to be performed. These show that quite simple high demand and low supplies. According to the Professor Mcnaught’s lecture, the cost of a kidney transplant runs about $250,000 and its bill goes up to $70,000 annually. Dialysis is even becoming more expensive and price-inelastic. To solve this high demand and low supplies situation that causes people die while they are waiting for organ donators, we have to find a way to increase the supply of organs that could reduce waiting times and deaths. The most effective way will be to provide compensation for organ donators; in other words, we

With the use of medical advancements, sustaining life even after the death of the brain is possible. This has lead to controversy regarding organ donation. Ethical standards are questioned when doctors want to harvest organs from a brain dead patient who is still alive due to the help of mechanical ventilation and other medical technology. Because of this controversy the Harvard criteria of death was developed in order to help physicians decide weather or not it is appropriate to gather organs from a body (Kastenbaum

Resource allocation refers to the distribution of resources, and in particular finance, from the centre to peripheral levels. It generally concerns broad levels of aggregated financial resources. Budgeting implies the more detailed determination of precisely how these funds are to be used. Given the importance we have placed on planning as a process that leads to action, budgeting and resource allocation are major planning instruments.

The process of organ transplantation has grown leaps and bounds over the last 50 years(Douglas, 2003). The advancements within this concentration has been able to save so many lives. Although with every advancement that is made within the medical field there is some sort of question requiring if it is ethical or not. The primary ethical predicament we face is the shortage of human organs. Sadly not everyone who needs an organ transplant gets one. One way to keep all lists organized and in all one common place is the help of the system United Network for Organ Sharing, also known as UNOS(Douglas, 2003). UNOS is an up-to-date website that keeps a record of the states of those of people who are awaiting an organ(Pence, 2011). UNOS reported back in 2003 that there were a total of 19,000 transplants conducted(Pence, 2011). Another ethical dilemma we face is the distribution of available organs. There are thousands of people on the waiting lists and the question is how do you pick who gets what? Distributive justice is a process that helps the members of the transplant teams fairly divide resources(Pence, 2011). This theory states there is indeed not just one “right” way to distribute organs. On the other hand, there are many ways to justify giving an organ to one particular individual over someone else(Pence, 2011). Two of the most important factors that

When dealing with organ donation, there are two different policies that often come about. Opt-in, which is the current policy in the United States, means that peoples organs are not taken from them unless they explicitly say so. In the United States this is noted on an individual’s drivers license. Opt- out, or more commonly called presumed consent, is a leading policy in many European countries that consists of taking one’s organs unless they object, or opt out. When evaluating moral rules and principles, people mainly use two different approaches to go about doing so. The first is a deontological approach. In this type of approach people evaluate a decision or action based on the the rightness or wrongness of such actions. The second is a utilitarian approach in which people evaluate a decision or action based on making the greatest amount of benefit for the greatest number of people. Throughout this paper, while providing counterarguments to my thesis, I will use deontological and utilitarian approaches to show that presumed consent results in organs being taken unwillingly from the deceased, and thus is morally impermissible.

Resource management has been of crucial value when it comes to survival and development issues of an organization. In today's world where organizations are being highly competitive and are willing to exploit their competitive edge in every possible way, scarcity of resources makes this competition even tougher. This has given rise to the not so contemporary theory of RBV or resource-based view. The theory helps in examining how the organizations strive for the attainment of resources, how they manage them and how their strategies of resource management differ with changes in external and internal environment.

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