Ethics Framework And Ethical Decision-Making

Ethical decision making frameworks share similar guiding principles, however there are differences among how they guide the decision maker through the process. The Badaracco Model, Markkula Model, and the Nash 12 Questions Model use a set of questions that the decision maker must work through to solve the ethical dilemma. The three models share themes of asking the decision maker to identify the ethical dilemma, and to look at other perspectives and alternatives. The Servant Leadership Model is different from the other three models in several ways. While the other three approach guided a decision maker through a process the Servant Leadership model focuses more on being a servant. The other models utilize ethical standards to help think through the decision but allow the user to use different approaches. Under the Servant Leadership Model there is only one ethical standard to implement.

As a professional health care worker, the implication confidentiality breach regarding ethical dilemmas are significant to nurse and patient. The information disclosed can cause problems on a personal and professional level. Breach of confidentiality occurs when the heath care work discloses the patient 's medical or personal information without the patient 's informed written or verbal consent. Confidentiality is needed between the nurse and the patient to maintain a good open and honest relationship between both parties. There are several ethical implications regarding breach of confidentiality, for example,

In Ruggiero’s book, Thinking Critically about Ethical Issues, he explains that there are three basic criteria for making ethical decision and aiding in moral actions. A moral action is, “one that demonstrates respect for persons by honoring the relevant obligations and ideals and by producing favorable consequences.” (Ruggiero, 81) The three basic criteria are obligations, the moral ideals and consequences. Ruggiero believes that when making a decision, one should first understand the details. Second, one needs to understand the obligations, the moral ideal and the consequences of his or her action. We will furthermore go into each criterion

The key takeaways from this article range from decision making models to ensuring that employers make an ethical decision. An ethical decision model is a great tool to use when faced with a tough decision to make (Inggs & Christensen, 2015). In order to ensure that a manager has made an ethical decision, he or she should consider everyone else around him or her that their decision could obtain an effect on. As a manager, it is important to utilize every tool necessary to make a decision. It is more important to stray away from the garbage can model which displays that decision making is sloppy and desultory (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013). Also, it is important to know which biases are showing up in the decision-making process.

After amassing and reviewing all information collected through the assessment of moral integrity and the ethical decision framework, the nurse should have a better understanding of the ethical dilemma and how it affect each person and the organization. It will better allow her to show moral courage to overcome fears, and resist pressure and act differently to make “right” decision. Making the “right” decision however requires the nurse to demonstrate moral leadership and courage. The nurse may have to overcome adversities that might test her resolve in ways unimaginable. Commitment will be a key element to obtain changes, if they happen at all. At the end, if the changes lead to creating an ethically conductive environment and workplace, the nurse would have advocated for patients, herself and colleagues.

Professionals encounter many ethical challenges in regards to ethical decision making within their practices, which can have either have a positive or negative impact on them and the clients they serve. Ethical practices and decision making is not straightforward or a simple process for individuals and companies in the professional helping field. It is considered complex and multidimensional. This is proven through many research studies conducted on various aspects of ethical decision making with professionals.

The first step in the CPA (2000) ethical decision-making model is identification of the individuals and groups potentially affected by the decision. In the ethical scenario I presented earlier, the individuals directly involved and likely to be most affected by the decision include the 54-year old woman and myself as the counsellor. Those who will likely be indirectly affected by the decision would be the woman’s family, including her 20-year old daughter, and the agency at which I work.

I believe the initial considerations are related to Bill making a good faith effort to protect his client (the child) and provide confidentiality using a sound ethical decision-making model, his ethical identity, the code, and the agreed upon “informed consent”. He is now on the witness stand in a courtroom testifying. His role should be that he is a clinical mental health counselor in private practice and his client is the child. However, I believe Bill has made some mistakes along the way with his decision-making, the use of the code, and now his ethical identity is challenged in what could be a high pressure courtroom setting. It does seem that he is not actually sure what his role is at the moment.

The revelation of technology in the last two decades has influenced the society in a manner that many had not perceived. Not only has technology been applied in places of business, but it is also in our personal lives. A hallmark of this technological revolution is social media. To facilitate some of these services, such as online banking, the user is required to part with vital information. These data includes personal records, bank statements, documents of high value, say tenders to services of bitcoins. with the availability of such information online, information concerning personal details of computer users lives such

After reviewing several ethical decision-making models, reviewing the code of ethics and its foundations, and examining personal beliefs and values surrounding ethics, I have come up with an ethical decision-making model. This model incorporates aspects of pre-existing models, including the social-constructivist model, practitioner’s guide, feminist model, and Herlihy and Corey’s (2015) “elements of ethical decision making” (p. 20). This model is broken down into seven steps, which are meant to be followed chronologically but may be returned to throughout the decision making process when necessary. The steps can be easily remembered with the acronym, DR. CAREFUL. The following are the names of each step and subsequent sections in this model.

In the book it states that when making an ethical decision, counselors should utilities a decision making process that can include reviewing professional codes of ethics, consulting with others, a reviewing relevant literature. The situation that you were faced with involves all of these concepts, you knew that engage in unethical relationship with a client is wrong. Even if the client didn’t mean to call you these names, you informed your Case manager about the situation. The case manager took the proper course in trying to resolve the problem. Some people would look at this situation to be relevant, but you took the proper course in keeping the relationship professional.

I agree with the author’s argument that unethical behavior can arise unintentionally because we tend to don’t think about the side effects that may arise when we make our every decision—and that happens too often. In the article, author provides us an excellent illustration of two modes of decision making. Like author states in the article, our minds have two distinct modes of decision making, which we use each of these modes in separate occasion of decision making. When our minds are overloaded or we are in any kind of emergency, we tend to make ethically compromised decisions. This happens because of the two modes of decision making—System 1 and System 2 thinking—according to the author. If our brains need to make decision quick or experience fear or emergency, in these types of scenarios, we tend to use our System 1 thinking mode because this mode is our intuitive system of processing information because it is fast, automatic, effortless, implicit and emotional so we use System 1 thinking mode majority of the time. However, System 2 thinking is slower, conscious, effortful, explicit, more logical and we weigh the pro and con or aftermath of our decision. One recent incident that involved System 1 thinking method is I believe is Harambe, the Gorilla that was shot at the Cincinnati Zoo to save a baby. They had to make a decision in the matter of

The next sphere is Ethical. In this sphere, meaning comes through in ethical obligations and logical understandings. These individuals focus on the goals they set for themselves. Ethical people set their attention and efforts on their own nature, something they have control of. Each ethical person determines what really is important and what is not important. So, they are able to achieve the things they want to achieve. For example, they look into their financial status. They determine whether or not they are able to buy a car now. If they are not able to, they will set a goal to either achieve this goal someday or determine they do not need it and only see it as a “want.” Another example is that these people live to serve other. They may participate

First and foremost, you need to identify the problem consider the significant of the contact and setting. We know she at a wine tasting she’s may be already drunk. She needs to be able to identify and utilize ethical and logical resources. she would need to stay calm consider the possible solutions to the problem at hand. And also consider the potential consequences of his actions. We already know he is acting aggressive with her by implying that he will tell the court “she is out to get him “the next step would be to make sure you have assessed the outcome and Implement changes if needed.

According to Hartman (2014), people can make ethical decisions by an ethical decision making process. The ethical decision making process consists of seven steps that guide people make an ethical decision. First, people need to know and understand the facts of the situation to eliminate the assumption and opinion because the facts could help people to resolve ethical issues from the gecko and forges the path to make a sound decision. Also, the facts could explain many ethical conflicts between people, which would enable people to resolve their perceptual difference with the facts (pg. 47 ~ 48).