Medical Ethicism

In today’s health care industry, mechanical restraints are often used to maintain patients’ behavior and ensure their safety when treating the elderly and the severely ill (Gatsmans & Milisen, 2006). There are many variations of mechanical restraints, but all are defined as “any device, material or equipment attached to or near a person 's body and which cannot be controlled or easily removed by the person and which deliberately prevents or is deliberately intended to prevent a person 's free body movement to a position of choice and/or a person 's normal access to their body” (Gatsmans & Milisen, 2006, p.

The discussion on Patrick Dismuke's condition concentrated on his incapability to improve. After reviewing his symptoms and considering possible scenarios resulting from certain kinds of treatment, such as the tube that delivered nutrients into his veins that "broke the barrier between blood and air" and became "a bacteria-laden Trojan horse, opening the door to infection", we attempted to come to a consensus on what would constitute a quality life, as deliberated among the committee. We took into consideration that after every kind of surgery, his status would be temporarily improved but ultimately decline in keeping with his body's proclivity. We acknowledged that the idea of a successful stomach transplant was remote since, as

The four principles of medical ethics include nonmaleficence, beneficence, autonomy, and justice. These principles were created by Beauchamp and James Childress because they felt these four were the building blocks of people’s morality. Nonmaleficence is to do no harm to others. Beneficence is to care or help others. Autonomy is to respect another’s wishes. These four principles relate to issues surrounding physician-assisted death in many ways. To begin, there are seven individual forms of PAD. They are the following; voluntary passive euthanasia, nonvoluntary passive euthanasia, involuntary passive euthanasia, voluntary active euthanasia, nonvoluntary active euthanasia, involuntary active euthanasia, and physician-assisted suicide. Passive euthanasia is an act in which the health care physician withholds treatment or surgery and the result is the patient’s death. An example of passive euthanasia is a cancer patient refusing treatment and the physician agrees with their decision, therefore the patient dies from the lack of intervention to treat their illness. Active euthanasia is an act in which the health care physician has a direct contact with the patient’s death due to the physician’s act of doing something to the patient in order for them to die. An example of active euthanasia is an injection of potassium chloride. Voluntary is when the patient is requesting assistance to die. Nonvoluntary is when the patient is not requesting assistance and their wishes are unknown

After reading chapter 2, I learned that healthcare professionals need to be prepared and aware of the dilemmas that their career involve. One broad ethical and moral dilemma is abortion. This dilemma is very controversial because it’s discussed legally and religiously. There are pro-life supporters who claim that it is against religion to kill someone and believe that a fetus has a right to life, while pro-choice supporters claim that woman should have the legal right to make decisions regrinding her body. I think that healthcare professionals should always respect patients’ decisions and that people should also need to respect healthcare professionals’ set of values and morals. For example, some healthcare providers do not perform abortions

While there are some physicians who are against the legalization of (PAS), because they say it goes against the Medical Code of Ethics, there are some physicians who believe it is better that they assist the terminally ill who wish to commit suicide, because if they do not, the patient may attempt suicide on his or her own, which can lead to more complications. Using medications to terminate a life can be very difficult. The dosage and timing of when the drug is administrated is critical, especially when taken orally. Because failed attempts may cause greater trauma than death itself for the patient, the patient may beg their caregiver to help them, in completing their failed attempt at ending their life. It is for these reasons that some physicians

Ethical standards for all healthcare professions include principles of informed consent, veracity, and beneficence to provide best care (Kornblau & Burkhart, 2012). However, the definition of best practice can still differ among patients depending on their diagnosis, age, personality, and personal culture. Best practice gets further complicated when the patient is a child. The law concerning medical decisions for children states that children are unable to make their own decisions soundly (Goldstein, 1977). A parent must stand in as the decision-maker giving consent to treatments. Parents have the right to establish and dictate the course of healthcare without interference by the state. Parents can choose to accept or decline treatments,

1. As employers, physicians have general liability in what three areas? The Practice’s Building and Grounds, Automobiles and Employee Safety.

An ethical dilemma is based upon personal values that relay an action being good or bad with an end motive to perform an action rightfully or wrongly. In the medical profession each individual holds a responsibility to apply ethical standards to conduct an ethical practice. Frequently, nurses and physicians see withholding or not telling the whole truth of information is within their professional responsibility. It can be apprised that a patient can become perturbed if they are told more information than they may desire. Deception is mainly stated when a healthcare professional gives inaccurate information or withholds accurate information to mislead an individual (Teasdale & Kent 1995).

On August 21, 1996, the U.S. Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The primary goal of the act are to improve the portability and continuity of health-care coverage in group and individual markets; to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in health-care insurance and health-care delivery; to promote the use of medical savings account; to improve access to long-term care services and coverage; and to simplify the administration of health insurance.

The clinician’s behavior does not meet the aspirational goals described by the ethics code. The clinician is violating the clients privacy and breaks the APA’s ethical code of 4.04, Minimizing Intrusions on Privacy. The clinician may also be putting themselves in a position where they may start a duel relationship. It would be appropriate to report the situation if the client is under legal drinking age. A more appropriate behavior of the clinician would be to wait and see if the client approaches the clinician at the bar. If the client does not, then the clinician should wait and see if the client mentions the drinking situation during the next session with the clinician. If the client does not bring up the situation, the clinician could

You did a great job with this week's discussion post. I agree with you that the scenario is risky and interesting and I think being in a medical field requires us to be extra careful on how to react to each and every situation. I have a similar experience when I was interning at a mental health center as a requirement for my associates degree. The place where I interned had patient who spoke my native language and they would approach me and ask me if I knew anything about their health. As it was unethical for me to disclose their personal health information, I tried explaining to them but then they would get mad at me. Even though I had empathy for them, I never did release any of their information and I tried to be away from them as much as

Everyday, healthcare professionals are faced with ethical dilemmas in their workplace. These ethical dilemmas need to be addressed in order to provide the best care for the patient. Healthcare professionals have to weigh their own personal beliefs, professional beliefs, ethical understandings, and several other factors to decide what the best care for their patient might be. This is illustrated in Mrs. Smith’s case. Mrs. Smith is an 85 year old who has suffered from a large stroke that extends to both of her brains hemispheres which has left her unconscious. She only has some brain stem reflexes and requires a ventilator for support. She is unable to communicate how she wishes to proceed with her healthcare. Mrs. Smith’s children, Sara and Frank have different views regarding their mother’s plan of care. The decision that needs to be made is whether to prolong Mrs. Smith’s life, as Sara would like to do, or stop all treatments and care, as Frank feels his mother would want. In the healthcare field, there are situations similar to this case that happen daily where moral and ethical judgment is necessary to guide the decision that would be best for the patient. The purpose of this paper is to explore and discuss, compare and contrast the personal and professional values, ethical principles, and legal issues regarding Mrs. Smith’s quality of life and further plan of care.

Professionals in every field are always confronted with some kind of ethical issues. It has however been noted that these ethical issues become high in magnitude and extent when public officials are involved. Due to the involvement of human life, an industry like healthcare holds ethics in highest regard. Even though these healthcare practitioners are highly trained to deal with issues of these kinds, their decisions can sometimes have a lasting impact on their professional and personal lives (Edwards 2009).

In this study, of the whole 380 subjects under study, 47.7% (180 subjects) were men, and 52.6% (200 subjects) were women. Moreover, all subjects belonged to the 19-27 age range, and the mean and standard deviation of samples’ age were 22.48±2.7. In terms of marital status, the majority of subjects were single (77.1% or 293 subjects). Additionally, in terms of education, 180 subjects (47.4%) were medical students, 113 subjects (29.7%) were majoring in nursing, and 87 subjects (22.9%) were midwifery students.

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