Ethics And Ethical Dilemmas

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People from all walks of life face many ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas have consequences. Our worldview determines how we deal with these dilemmas, and guides us to the right decisions. In this essay, I will examine an ethical issues through my Christian worldview. I will also present other viewpoints, and compare them to mine.

Ethical dilemmas occur when there is a disagreement about a situation and all parties involved question how they should behave based on their individual ethical morals. (Newman & Pollnitz, 2005). The dilemma that I will be addressing in this essay involves Michael, recently employed male educator working in the nursery, and parents of a baby enrolled at the centre. The parents have raised concerns about male educators changing their child’s nappy as they have cultural practices that do not allow this practice to take place. This situation is classed as an ethical dilemma as there is a dispute between cultural beliefs and legal requirements within the workplace. There are four parties involved (parents, child, educator and director), all

For her to lose her legs at the age of 19, that would be enough for any teenager/young adult to give up. But, that didn’t stop her as she continued to be strong. Prior to her accident, she always enjoyed snowboarding. She always wanted to become a professional snowboarder. Well how can she do that without legs right? Well, her stories

Erin Reuben is a 26-year-old female that just finished her degree in teaching. She is a newlywed and on her honeymoon, she and her husband went horseback riding. She fell off the horse and the horse stepped on her right leg. The trauma was so severe that they could not save the leg and that she was amputated roughly 10cm above the knee.

Dear Leo, -I had a conversation with my case manager Ms., Mila from WSIB she told me that I needed to go to a specialty clinic to get a new diagnosis on my soft tissue injuries because you sent her such referral for me nonetheless I was never informed by you nor you discussed such referral with me in my first visit to the physiotherapy clinic where we met and you completed form 8 for WSIB conversely Dr. Daniels as a family physician with high ethical standards with his professional practice got very concerned that I might had internal bleeding when my co-worker took me after picking me from the stairs injured and upon my request he drove me to his walking clinic where my co-worker narrated to Dr. Daniels as a witness my accident Dr. Daniels

Think about how hard it would be to live life without one of your leg, that would bring many conflicts in your life and only a hero could survive such a big change. That was the case with Tristan Eugen Segers, a soldier whom lost his leg in Afghanistan. In “Soldier home after losing his leg AFGHANISTAN” it states ‘’ Segers wears shorts in the warm summer weather, not even pretending to hide his prosthetic leg. He has run a marathon ‘’ (Gale Fiege 59). He lost his leg, yet he still manages to do activities without being embarrassed of his prosthetic leg. However even without his leg he still wants to keep a normal life without anything getting in his way, also now he has a child on its way. Therefore, he needs to stay strong to support his wife and son. According to the author he states “Most of the time when people see my

According to Nickerson (n.d.), “organ donation is the act of donating an organ by a person and it can be transplanted by surgical procedure in the body of the recipient (para.1)”. This procedure is made with fully informed consent from the donor. Organ donation is one of the most popular topic and many are not aware for the good benefit of it. According to Midwest Transplant Network (2010), it can helps the “recipient largely by continuing and maintaining quality of life, improving health, adding another span of life and saving him from even death (MTN, 2010).”

thical work by program evaluators needs honesty and transparency among stakeholders. The ethical guidelines are crucial to carrying out any form data collection. The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE) help protects both the stakeholders and evaluators (JCSEE, 2016). The power of data, however, to decide program deficiencies and tell the field evaluators about effective programs. Ethical considerations and dilemmas found in Grand City’s “Ethical Dilemmas,” “Project Plan for Evaluation Statewide Afterschool Initiative,” and “Evaluation of a School Improvement Grant to Increase Parent Involvement” comes down to objectivity. What we think of objectivity is bias, prejudice, and the underlying assumptions that may

Douglas G. Smith’s Transtibial Amputations Successes and Challenges, discusses the importance of trying to save an amputee’s knee, and the challenge of giving a transfemoral amputee the power needed to walk affectively. It also discusses the different approaches to post-operative treatment. The most controversial of Smith’s topics (Immediate Post-Operative Prosthetics “IPOPs”) have been debated through out the prosthetics community. On the opposite end of the spectrum, from the IPOP approach; some surgeons believe a simple dressing and delayed rehabilitation process, is the best approach for recovery. While this approach takes into account the severity of the surgery and the necessity of healing; I believe,

The prosthetic leg was built to help an individual in need who had lost its leg due to an accident, injury, or if in combat. The prosthetic leg has developed in such an amazing way that now is been able to function to do a lot more than just making an appearance . It is now capable of helping you walk again in a way that you’ve never though you could again. Now you can run and jump like if nothing had never happened. The prosthetic leg has helped people feel like they are not useless, that they have a purpose in life. Losing a leg can be very frustrating and can cause a lot of sadness to a person to the point where they can be depressed. The prosthetic leg brings more than hope it gives a meaning to a person, it has helped millions of people from all ages, it is capable to be used by every individual in the world. There isn’t just one kind of leg there are many more out there for all kinds of causes. This is how far technology has developed over the couple of

“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…” (Butts & Rich, 2016, p. 55). In everyday nursing practice, many nurses are faced with various ethical dilemmas that occur between patients, their family, and healthcare professionals. Many healthcare professionals work on common goals to provide patients with the safest and highest quality care. However, some doctors’ poor or bad orders lead nurses into ethical dilemmas that are not evidence-based practice or are not consistent with the nursing standards of practice. Following the doctor’s order can risk patients’ safety, which also violates ethical principles such as beneficence and nonmaleficence. However, in a clinical environment, nurses’ practices are deeply intertwined with doctors’ practices in the delivery of health care, which requires collaboration in each profession. As a registered nurse, when faced with this situation, I experienced an ethical conflict of what to put first: patient safety or friendly relationships with doctors. The purpose of this paper is to identify ethical dilemmas that can arise between a nurse and a doctor due to a doctor’s poor practices that threaten patients’ well-being and safety. This paper also deals with how to solve this conflict with respect for each other’s professions.

In every nurse’s career, there are times when you have to decide when to do the right thing regardless of what you want to do. These decisions are not easy to make and often create ethical dilemmas. Situations will arise, and nurses have a duty to protect the patients and themselves. This paper will outline a significant event in my practice that caused an ethical dilemma.

“Nearly all healthcare clinicians have or will encounter ethical dilemmas during their clinical operations. Consequently most of them get not training on how to solve the situation. The clinical professionals should be trained on how to resolve ethical dilemma cases, since they are vulnerable to this kind of cases. Ethical dilemmas affect the psychological decisions one makes since they dread transgressing on other imperative moral decisions. Cases of ethical dilemmas affect almost every person regardless of their class or status in the society. Ethical dilemmas in clinical organization affect both the executives and their subjects’ indifferent levels. The heads find themselves perplexed by some ethical issues in their operations, the same way their juniors would experience ethical dilemmas in their standards,”(Welch, 2001, p.1). In situations where life and death is involved, prompt decision should be considered whether one party is hurt but it must be in the best interest of the outcome. Always positive outcome is promoted or considered in an ethical dilemmas. There are many ethical dilemmas that happen in our day to day working lives as nurses but how we tackle the situations matters most. Being diligent and neutral as a health care worker is very important because you are not the judge but helping to resolve the situation.

It was alarming that in the year 2012, one out of two adults in the United States was suffered from musculoskeletal dysfunctions (Lezin and Watkins-Castillo, 2016). Gait deviation and postural asymmetry are constantly observed among people with unilateral lower limb amputation, especially transfemoral amputation. Studies showed, amputees have 52-71% in getting low back pain and transfemoral amputees (TFAs) has 50% more chance of getting knee osteoarthritis (OA) at the intact leg (Ehde et al., 2001, Kulkarni et al., 1998). It is a major issue needs immediate attention as OA and low back pain can severely affect a person’s quality of life (Woolf and Pfleger, 2003), especially this group of population who has already owned a primary disability. Due to such, an in-depth review of how does biomechanical disadvantages expose unilateral transfemoral amputation to these second disabilities and rehabilitation approaches to prevent or delay of the dysfunctions will be discussed here from my perspective as a physiotherapist.