Euthanasia opponent always claims that doctors have the duty to help the patient to continue alive even depending on machines only. Otherwise, it is murder. This is ridicules. First, is life-sustaining treatment or artificial feeding methods really “helping” the patients? Can these kinds of treatment really get patient and their families out of suffering as well as give hope?
University of Phoenix Material Personal Philosophy of Nursing Worksheet This is a philosophy of nursing that reflects the beliefs and values of your name Today’s date is October 14, 2010 I chose nursing as my profession because nursing is about caring for others in their time of greatest need. It is one of few professions in which you can go home each day and be happy for what you did. Although you may not realize it, but you have affected the patient’s life in some way. Nursing is about healing and curing the patient’s symptoms of disease or illness. In my nursing class, I learned that doctors cure the sickness and nurses cure the patient.
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.
Mr. J was kept in restraint without considering that Mr. J was not trying to get out of bed by himself. When the pressure ulcer was identified, the nurse neglected evidence which should have been a basis of removing restraint. Even if the risk of falling was high, a sound alarm could have been placed at the bedside, which Mr. J could have used when he wanted to use the bathroom. The body of Mr. J was in unnecessary discomfort due to restraint and constant pressure was causing ulcer in the back. Mr. J was diagnosed with mild dementia and was drowsy, so the nursing staff had put him in restraint.
Community physicians have been around almost as long in some capacity, dealing with these sufferings with the technology available. Helping people deal with their suffering is a high calling, and how far this calling is taken is the topic of this work. How far should a physician go to ease suffering? Physician assisted suicide is a method for doctors to manage a voluntary patient death without administering the lethal medication. Doctors prescribe the medication and the patient administers their own death.
. A nurse’s perceptions about quality of life and health promotion could affect the care of a dying patient with a lingering illness, such as cancer. Nurses are patient advocates and it is their responsibility to respect patients’ wishes regardless of their personal opinion. A nurse may personally feel that a patient should use any and all medications available to them such as pain medication, etc. during a lingering illness.
Maghiro Jacinta Personal Philosophy of Nursing This is a philosophy of nursing that reflects the beliefs and values of Jacinta Maghiro. Today’s date is May 18, 2015 I chose nursing as my profession because I like to help people in need and nursing is about helping and caring for people who are in need. My passion for nursing began after the delivery of my last child. I was very sick and helpless but the way the nurses cared for me gave me hope and strength to go on. I felt that I could give help in return to those individuals who needed help and had no one to care for them at desperate times when they were sick.
“Improving integrated team working to support people to die in the place of their choice” (Nursing Times, 2010) End of life care is about supporting people with advanced, incurable, progressive illness, to enable them to live as well as possible until they die, and to die with dignity. It is a holistic approach that looks after the whole person by offering care to relieve pain and other symptoms, as well as providing emotional and psychological support, for the patient and their family in the final stages of life (NHS Choices, 2014). With as many as 63% of the UK population prefering to receive end of life care in their own home, (Dying Matters, 2012) community nurses are in an ideal position to deliver this care. This involves making sure a patient’s symptoms are managed well, that compassionate communication is offered and an individual’s wishes are understood (Pender & Pearce, 2012, p4). This essay will be looking at the above titled article from the Nursing Times (2010), about a team of community nurses and GPs in East Anglia that wanted to change the way they practiced to support choices for adults in end stage of life.
Organ donation is a choice. Some people want to be buried with all their organs intact like God gave them, while others feel at an obligation to save lives if they can. Organ donation has much controversy over the years. I argue that organ donning is ethical to helping those who are in need of a donation, however that is if they are truly declared dead after a conclusion of many tests. Even though they may be considered brain dead, the help of life support still keeps their heart beating through the ventilation.
When you go to the hospital for treatment, doctors focus on saving your life -- not somebody else's. You'll be seen by a doctor whose specialty most closely matches your particular emergency. The doctor in charge of your care has nothing to do with transplantation. Myth. Maybe I won't really be dead when they sign my death certificate.