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    care of patients, a nurse 's duty includes advocating, and making non-judgmental decisions for patients are priority. Nurses must be aware of the ethical principles: nonmaleficence versus beneficence, autonomy, justice, fidelity, paternalism, and principles of integrity and totality. Along with the ethical principles nurses should keep in mind the ethical codes of conduct. These are the standards that were intended to coincide with a nurse 's roles and duties. These duties are a part of the professional

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    The Code of Ethical, Principle, and Guidelines. Social workers work with conflicting interests and competing rights to support, protect and empower people, statutory duties and other obligations that may be coercive and restrict people’s freedoms. Social work is an interrelated system of values, theory and practice. PRACTICE Social work practice addresses the barriers, inequities and injustices that exist in society. It responds to crises and emergencies as well as to everyday

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    seeing the same person for more than one or couple nights. Juanita is still a virgin and doesn't want any men in the apartment at all. Additionally, the ethical principle that applied to this case is the principle of relationship (Strike and Moss 3). Now according to the principle of relationship Tameka and

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    Throughout the semester, there have been many ethical principles presented. While the terms and definitions have been easily understood among the class, it is important to understand how these principles are incorporated in health care occupations. Because of this, I chose to interview a registered nurse, whom will further be referred to as Jane Doe. She is an employee of Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital (IUHP), a rural hospital in southern Indiana. When interviewing Jane Doe, the professional

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    Throughout the course of the semester, numerous ethical principles have been presented. While the terms and definitions have been easily understood among the class, it is important to understand how these principles are incorporated in health care occupations on a daily basis. Because of this, I chose to interview a registered nurse, whom will further be referred to as Jane Doe, from Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital (IUHP). Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital is a rural hospital in

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    Describe and discuss the theoretical principles and ethical guidelines that underlie two of the main areas of applied psychology. Applied psychology is the use of psychological knowledge, theories and principles that help to solve practical situations in everyday life as cited by Cherry (n.d.). There are many theories behind different human behaviours, so psychologists specialise in a particular area of psychology in order to investigate these types of behaviours. This essay is going to look at

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    What ethical principles apply to this case? Two of the ethical principles can be applied to this case, veracity and societal trust. We as Dental Hygienists are obligated to be always truthful, not only to our patients and associates, but also with ourselves. We must value our knowledge and express treatment options in an honest and fair way. Societal trust is an obligation and it is very important to remember that patients trust on us as health care professionals, and this trust has to be earned

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    The ethical principle non-maleficence focuses on the goal of avoiding doing harm towards the patients. When caregivers realize that they have run out of options that would provide any long-term benefits for their patients, specifically the terminally ill, then they make the objective of preventing any damage a higher priority than attempting to improve their health under severe circumstances. One example of this is the case of Bill Brooks who was suffering from brain cancer (10:17). At first, he

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    Ethical Principles for Research The National Research Act (public Law 93-348), known as the Belmont Report, set forth the guiding principles of respect of person, beneficence and justice to ensure individuals involved in research are exposed to the least amount of risk, appropriate protection against risk, the protection of vulnerable populations. Enacted by the National Commission for the Protection of Human subject of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, to ensure those conducting the research

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    Importance of documentation In today’s health care field nurses are accountable for documentation of patient information that accurately reflects nursing assessment, plan of care, intervention, and evaluation of the patient’s condition. To satisfy ethical and legal requirements, documentation in this case should show that the standard of care was met by following standard of care set by JACHO. Ethically, the nurse’s primary goal is to protect the patient and to act as his or her advocate. Documentation

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