The Ethics Of The Field Of Healthcare

According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, the Affordable care Act from President Obama gives consumers more options and benefits when seeking coverage from insurance company. It offers lowering cost as well as gets more access to high quality of care. This law creates Patient’s Bill of Rights that is very effective to protect consumers from any abuses or fraud from insurance company. Some preventive services are available to many Americans especially Medicare recipients at no cost. Not just that, they also receive a special offer of 50 percent discount for any well-known drugs in the market place under Medicare named “donut hole.” The Affordable Care Act helps other organizations and programs to convince healthcare providers

In addition, doctors must readily cooperate with ethicists to become more sensitive toward decisions requiring appropriate ethical evaluation and, overall, more familiar with the complex moral boundaries. Only after achieving all this, can doctors retain the high levels of proficiency and trust that comes with their respected professions. However, due to the major roles that ethics and morals play, the medical field will also inevitably get entangled with the legal system. For example, in the text, Boudreau cited examples of cases where euthanasia has already become legalized, notably in Oregon, US, to show its clash with traditional values. Despite the enactment of laws legalizing euthanasia, the Oregon Health & Science University, ironically, kept their same slogan which states, “Where healing, teaching, and discovery come together” (82). This reveals an extended problem since even after the legal measures taken, euthanasia still has not been completely accepted and homogenized within the medical

My topic is the ethical issue of health care as a human right. I will be applying deontological theory, focusing on Immanuel Kant’s theory on human right to health and affordable health care by arguing, first, the health of human should be basic human right, and universalize affordable health care for everyone is the right intention to equal opportunity of good health, secondly, health care should not be treating as a privilege, to say health care as a privilege implies not all people is equal, thirdly, it is unjust and immoral for individual to be deny of health care insurance and health care services for the reason that they cannot afford of high premium fee, and high cost of hospital bills.

Nurses are constantly challenged by changes which occur in their practice environment and are under the influence of internal or external factors. Due to the increased complexity of the health system, nowadays nurses are faced with ethical and legal decisions and often come across dilemmas regarding patient care. From this perspective a good question to be raised would be whether or not nurses have the necessary background, knowledge and skills to make appropriate legal and ethical decisions. Even though most nursing programs cover the ethical and moral issues in health care, it is questionable if new nurses have the depth of knowledge and understanding of these issues and apply them in their practice

Healthcare professionals will be faced with ethical dilemmas throughout their career, particularly in the hospital environment. Having an education regarding professional healthcare ethics will provide some direction in how to best address these dilemmas at a time when either the patient or their family is in need of making decisions for themselves or their family member. It can be difficult for healthcare professionals to weigh professional protocol against their own personal beliefs and ethical understandings when determining critical care for their patient.

Being a student and learning every subject in the Health care field has been quite an eye opener on what healthcare professionals have to face in their every day careers. Our quality of providing services has been drastically changing with technology advancements, new policies being implemented and stricter regulations. When it comes to medical ethics the patient always comes first. Many people have their own personal views on what is considered to be ethical or not. Being a physician and helping others whether they are ill, have been diagnosed with a disease, or just an injury, they must also have compassion, and show consideration to their patients. What if a patient is suffering a terminal illness and is ready to take their own life, but

There are more ethical issues in health care then you could imagine, I will introduce three of such issues here in this paper. For starters “Making Basic Health Care Accessible,” today in our society there are many Americans that still lack basic health care. Most travel miles to get proper care, and pay extra out-of-pocket to receive this care. Not only basic health care but durable medical equipment (DME) and radiologic testing.

Ethical concerns in healthcare are common. Every decision making has ethical implication that impacts the hospital administrators, clinicians, and patients as well as their families. The top ethical challenges in healthcare leaders that are facing today are balancing care quality and efficiency, improving access to care, building and sustaining the healthcare workforce of the future, addressing end-of-life issues, and allocating limited medications and donor organs (Larson, 2013). Nonetheless, waiting time and treatment decisions have been the greatest challenge throughout the health care settings for decades and it has effected the quality and access to care, which have triggered an influx of cost. As this country move

With a growing epidemic of obesity in America, some states and lawmakers have resorted to taking unconventional measures in order to counter the growing issue. Many legislators are debating the effectiveness of a “fat tax” would be on limiting the consumption of soda, high fat foods, and high sugar foods, and ultimately reducing the rate of morbidity and mortality due to obesity. The idea is that long term consumption of high fat, high sugar foods and drinks lead to many health problems, so making them more expensive and less accessible should decrease the health issues related to their consumption.

Ethics according to the Webster dictionary, “rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad; ethics; an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior; a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right or wrong; a belief that something is very important.” (Merriam-Webster, 2015) My own definition of ethic is practicing kindness, respect, and fairness. Taking credit for the work you have done regardless good or bad. I believe children should come first because children are our future. The definition of values according to the Webster dictionary is, “usefulness or importance,” (Merriam-Webster, 2015) my own values are as followed treat everybody with respect and kindness. Learning from your mistakes. Don’t hold a grudge. My ethics and values are always growing and changing especially with my education more advanced and my occupation getting more diverse.

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).

The field of ethics includes the broad study of social morality along with reflections on its norms and practices. Ethical theory and moral philosophy refer to philosophical reflection on morality. Morality can be best defined as principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. Philosophical ethics and health care professions focuses on learning what philosophy is and how it contributes to human history, culture, and autonomy, learning how that contribution applies in developing research methods in all searches for knowledge and helps us to understand the differences among the different sciences, learning to better handle facts, values, and definitions by the way of their distinctions in thinking and writing, and learning how to make moral sound arguments in health care contexts and see relations to personal and professional leadership abilities. With the help of RQ 's 1-50, the understanding of why others think the way they do and the self-contradictory principles some people have. One major case that brought up the theory of moral relativism was the Nashu story. Nashu was one of the young teenagers yearly sacrificed to the Undergods by her tribal people for the believed reason that the action prevented volcanic eruptions such as the one that occurred some 80 years before. Her people honored her. Her family and she may have been proud of the sacrifice but she may or may not have gone willingly. Within the class vote, many

The Medical ethicist has been an issue in public policy and needs attention. The concept of relationship between individuals’ health and the government policy is a challenge; for a long time, the healthcare policy in this area was not helpful. The Public policy still short in helping eliminates the disparity among services to the elderly, disabled or less fortunate. Health care disparities have been prevalent among the general population; with access to necessitous preventative and mental health care services being narrowly available. The issue was addressed disproportionately in the public health care sectors; resulting in clear differences. Now going forward, what will be the underlying assurances reform for the vulnerable populations?

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.

classroom teachers lacks significantly, especially when the child is in some inclusion classes (Costley, 2013). Therefore, using the Ethics of Care framework, this solution would not allow Mrs. Miller to be responsible, competent or responsive. This article demonstrates specifically the responsiveness deficit in educational systems.