Category: Ethics

  • Moral, Ethical & Legal Issues: Caring for the Mentally Ill Patient

    The nursing profession is an ever-changing profession that has a responsibility of responding to complex and many different issues concerning protecting a patient by ensuring they are safe, human rights, as well as maintaining their dignity. Professional nurses should work as advocates of the patients without regard of the setting the nurses are working in.…

  • The Issue of Ethics in Healthcare

    Healthcare ethics is a set of basic principles and values that are applied when making decisions about medical procedures. These ideas include such bioethics notions as autonomy, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. These important factors should be taken into consideration to make recommendations and decide on the best course of action. The most frequently found ethical…

  • Ethical Professional Codes of Healthcare

    In recent decades, developments in medical practice made it possible to prolong human life, sometimes even past its natural limits, which entails various end-of-life dilemmas. Brain death, for instance, is associated with several ethical and legal controversies. A person’s brain is no longer functioning, but their heartbeat may be maintained, creating misunderstandings. In Tonya Archer’s…

  • Legal and Ethical Problems in Treatment Service Delivery

    Health facilities must comply with medical laws to provide treatment services to patients. Medical professionals ought to offer quality healthcare services to patients to protect them from legal problems due to non-compliance. Some of the most prominent ethical and legal issues in the provision of treatment services include: The absence of a patient’s confidential and…

  • Code of Ethics in Medical Practice

    The code of ethics, which regulates the relations between clinical nurses and general practitioners, can be correlated with Peter Drucker’s theory of management. Specifically, according to the author of the insightful book about entrepreneurship, the structure, and effectiveness of working processes are damaged by the general practice of subordinate-directed relations between the workers. Thus, Peter…

  • Ethical Decisions and Moral Problems Survey

    Making dubious ethical decisions is difficult for people who are ethical (or at least are trying to be ethical) even by definition. The survey on the moral problems that I took was sometimes quite difficult, but may have equipped me better to my clinical practice in the future by making me more ready for such…

  • Applying an Ethical Theory to a Medical Care Case

    It is important to note that any dilemma or problematic situation can be viewed differently depending on the ethical perspective used. The three normative ethical theories are deontological, consequentialist, and virtue theory. The former focuses on the action, the second emphasizes the consequence, and the latter is about a person’s virtue. The given case is…

  • Reproductive Technology in Ethical Debates

    Surrogacy is a complicated matter, both legally and ethically, because of the variety of aspects that factor in, each of which is complex enough on its own. Both the advocates and opponents of surrogacy have appealed to cultural and social tradition, law, psychophysiology, and religious belief, without coming close to a definitive conclusion. The fact…

  • Legal and Ethical Implications of the Debate

    Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Ethical issue References Introduction To begin with, it is necessary to mention that all the necessary implications by the DWI and FCC may be regarded as the confrontation on the basis of competition in the telecommunication sphere. Originally, the solution to the problem of these debates should take into account…

  • Code of Ethics Provision: Professional and Ethical Duty of a Nurse

    Code of Ethics Provision 4 is concerned with the principle of responsibility for nurses’ activities and treatment. It is the professional and ethical duty of a nurse to provide, to the extent of their competence, emergency medical care to anyone in need of it. In addition, nurses are personally responsible for the quality of nursing…