The nurse witnessed and reported to the hospital a direct violation of unsafe clinical practices of patient safety by a colleague and the hospital allowed the nurse to continue providing patient care, without consequence. The nurse is responsible, as defined the Code of Ethics, to report to the court the other instances she had recorded of the nurse on trial practicing unsafely. The nurse acting as a witness is also expected to be truthful and honest. If the nurse is questioned whether or not she observed the defendant being unsafe in any other situations, the nurse is required to answer honestly and provide what she observed her colleague doing, as it is her legal duty to the patients for her to provide factual
By examining the views on abortion of Marry Anne Warren, this paper will argue that abortion is morally permissible on the grounds that early fetuses, though they are genetically human, are not persons (members of the moral community). In this paper I will introduce Warren’s argument on why abortion is morally permissible followed by a counter argument by Don Marquis. Furthermore, this paper will analyze why Warren’s argument is more persuasive than the counter argument offered by Marquis followed by criticisms of the analysis. Lastly, I will discuss why the objections to the analysis are unconvincing. Warren beings her argument by acknowledging that abortion “…usually entails the death of a fetus.
In the second case study regarding the malpractice and negligence of a nurse, the primary obligation according to the ANA code of ethics is to the patient. Provisions II and IV of the ANA code of ethics states that the nurse is responsible to provide optimum patient care and the primary commitments are to the patient. “Business priorities may be pressing in the organization, and powerful enough to cause conflict of interests.” (Lachman, 2009). Therefore, it is important for the RN to maintain integrity as a professional and act in
This decision can be expressed either on a driver’s license or in a health care directive, which in some states are legally binding contracts. The second source is from a living donor. If a person does not have a living donor he or she is placed into a waiting pool for an organ from a cadaver by their transplant center. Deciding who gets a transplant most often is a decision about who lives and who dies. The primary ethical dilemmas surrounding organ transplantation arise from the shortage of available organs and the criteria on who should receive an organ first and why.
NESTLÉ: THE INFANT FORMULA CONTROVERSY 1. What are the responsibilities of companies in this or similar situations? * Send donations or work in an hospital organization to help the babies and their mothers * Sponsor events that have as theme the nutrition of infants * Nestlé needs to learn from its mistakes and should look like they care and are responsible for its issues * Must reposition their products 2. What could Nestlé have done to have avoided the accusations of ‘’killing Third World babies’’ and still market its product? * Support breast feeding and present its benefits * Search and learn about the culture of every possible market * Free tests for HIV 3.
The fundamental principles determine if the ethics are in breach of the laws. The effects with the future practice are ethically important. Ethical Importance With Influences On Future Practice The nursing professional assesses the ethics with implications of all patients’ wishes regarding his or her values, predilections, and objections to the measures of sustaining life. The assessment of the implications to nursing with the Terri Schiavo case, demonstrates the need for health care education. Educating the patient and providing information about completing an advance directive is top
In the critical thinking exercise, our responsibility is to protect the patient, “When called into court as a witness, the nurse has a duty to assist justice as far as possible. The nurse should always respond directly and truthfully to the questions asked. The nurse is not expected to volunteer additional information, nor is the nurse expected to remember completely all the details of a situation that may have
I will address the elements of autonomy, fidelity and confidentiality while explaining the rights of individuals as they interact with health care services. Concluding with summarization of Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) information I have researched will support my overview. The moral and Ethical values of the complex healthcare system will become more intense with its
Registered nurses are in a position to advocate for the rights of their patients and are often involved in ethical decision-making processes. Ethical decisions arise when the nurse is faced with a choice, in which he or she believes there is the potential for a bad or good outcome. In the case of Marianne the ethics committee will have to weigh the physician’s recommendation of surgery to remove the clot, her husband’s desire to “try everything” and her children’s belief that she would not want to have surgery only to live with a poor quality of life. In a malpractice case it is essential to remember the ANA Code of Ethics. According to “Code of Ethics” (2007), the second provision states, “The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, or community” (ANA, 2001, p. 18).
Although, what about the patients’ right to know their health conditions? There are many conflicts to bioethics principles, but discarding the embryos and hiding health information from the patient are two important moral issues. Even though embryo research can treat medical diseases, discarding infected or unused embryos raises ethical dilemmas. Discarding embryos, freezing them and allowing them to die are against the bioethics beneficence principle, which means act in a way so that the results are the best and the least harm(p. 202). In the case study 1 ”Controversial Transplant a Success,” Steve Karnowski writes about the case of a 6 year old girl, Molly, who suffered from a genetic disorder that is seldom seen, called Fanconi anemia, which interrupts the body from manufacturing bone marrow and that would lead to her death.