Medical Professionals Should Always Value A Patient 's Ethical Right

Introduction: Communication is a substantial contributing factor in providing high-quality healthcare. The relationship between patients and their medical professional is solely dependent on communication. Unfortunately, miscommunication has become increasingly prevalent in healthcare services. Compared to urban cities, the medical services available in rural areas are limited. Indigenous Australians form a greater fraction of the total population in remote regions, therefore are direct recipients…

distinction Melia (2014). They are expected to gain an understanding of ethical decision-making necessary for resolution of problems and dilemmas both professionally and personally. The nursing and midwifery council (2015) is a document of rules that state how nurses are expected to carry themselves and practice in order to provide the best care. The nursing and midwifery council (2015) document as well as a number of relevant ethical principles and theories such as beneficence, non-maleficence and deontology…

Professional values should serve as the basis of a nurse’s ethical practice. The professional values are the foundation to the practice of nursing. According to Kubsch, Hansen, & Huyser-Eatwell (2008),”Professional values are standards for actions accepted by the practitioner and professional group that provide a framework influencing the behavior of the group” (p.375). They are, to me, a set of beliefs or principles which guide behaviors. The professional values include: altruism, autonomy,…

and discuss the ethical, legal and professional implications that may arise when dealing with patients and patient’s family. The essay will especially focus on ethical principles, statue law, duty of care and professional values under the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2008) as well as the Code of Conduct and the importance of multi-disciplinary team (MDT) working in health and social care settings. In the United Kingdom all nurses and Midwives are governed by a professional body called Nursing…

terminally ill patients but also the goals of medicine recommend euthanasia. To be able to understand the viewpoint of this paper, it is important to clarify some fundamental ideas such as the terms euthanasia and morality. Euthanasia is the killing of the terminally ill to relieve them of suffering. It may occur through carrying out an action (e.g. overdosing to a patient) or the absence of action (e.g. not ensuring the patient is fed). Euthanasia may be requested by the patient, his relatives…

believes that important decisions about children’s health should be made by medical professionals and not by their parents. We stand in firm affirmation of the following bill: This House believes that important decisions about children’s health should be made by medical professionals and not by their parents. To begin, I would like to define terms within the resolution. These terms include important decisions, children, medical professionals, and parents. We have come to our own conclusion that important…

Part #1: Unqualified Medical Confidentiality Kipnis contemplates the significance of legal vs ethical duties medical professionals have to their clients. He sides with the need for confidentiality without condition. If conditions exist that make it possible for private information about a patient to be shared with a third party, that patient needs to be informed of this prior to treatment before information is gathered. Kipnis believes the outcome of this would result in two possible groups…

where a patient with chronic pain was hoisted. This will be written from the perspective of the author, a student nurse. The purpose of this assignment is to underline the ethical, legal and professional issues surrounding the episode of care during nursing practice and how these issues influence the role of the nurse and their professional judgement in delivering holistic, person-centred care for the patient. The author will cover the complications on delivering care when healthcare professionals should…

therapeutic privilege for deviate from fully informed consent have on medical professionals and their patients? Aims and objectives In medicine, because of the principles of self determination, the patient should be given all the relevant information in order to allow them to give fully informed consent. However, when doctors exercise therapeutic privilege, they apply their professional opinion to assess when information should be withheld. When a concept as fundamental as consent is undermined…

An Ethical Dilemma: The Patient’s Right to Refuse Care Theresa Ho Samuel Merritt University Introduction There are many ethical principles healthcare professionals must keep in mind for their patients: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity (Chitty & Black, 2014). These principles may collide with one another and cause the fine line of ethics to be blurred. The principle of autonomy asserts that patients have the right and freedom to determine their own…