NASW Ethical Responsibilities to the Clients Step 1: In the NASW (2008) Code of Ethics ethical standards, it states, “In general, clients’ interests are primary”. This of course, is joined by a supplemental responsibility to the greater society and/or legal obligations, which may outweigh any such loyalty owed clients. Nevertheless, as long as harm is absent from the equation, it seems that law would hold little bearing on decisions that are in the client’s best interest. In the case of Martha
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1: A doctor has a disease that interferes with his ability to treat patients. What is the main ethical issue/ dilemma? The main ethical issue is that the doctor in question is having partial seizures and has at least one during an operation. The doctor meets with a fellow doctor about the condition. The condition that causes partial seizures is treatable, but the second doctor is faced with the dilemma of whether to inform the first doctors work place or not. What decision would you make? I understand
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This case study demonstrates the moral distress Nurse Herma Gonzales, a newly registered nurse, faces at a local hospital where she is employed on the medical/surgical unit. When Nurse Gonzales reported for her shift on Saturday morning she got pulled off of the medical-surgical unit, where she worked, to help assist on the maternity unit for about an hour to two, because they were short-staffed and had a pending admission who was being transferred from the emergency department (Fry, Veatch, & Taylor
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The ethical dilemma that I faced happened around ten years ago when I was the manager of a sporting goods store the summer of my first year of college at the university of Toledo. I got the job because of being an athlete my entire life and I love being around sports so for a summertime job I figured being football player for Toledo it would be beneficial for the store and myself to be a part of the team and also to help increase profit and sales because of my athletic background. Well after about
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is excessive and will result in an increase in the cost of modifying packages and inversely, a reduction in net profit. The state (government) is also affected by the issues surrounding the tobacco industry. The government is faced with a slight dilemma because they are the regulator of the industry and the product is a legal product which is known to be harmful to both smokers and non-smokers. The industry also contributes significant tax revenue to the government coffers. On the flip side, the
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Company experienced many tragic issues with this vehicle having to pay millions of dollars in lawsuits. This was due to their negligence in not following the proper inspection procedures. It will be observed how this company was affected by the ethical and unethical issues regarding the Ford Pinto along with Ford and the Department of Transportation being the blame for every accident that transpired for not following the normal inspection procedures. A comparison of utilitarianism, deontological
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ETHICAL DILEMMA ON MEDICAL RESEARCH (HUMANS AS SUBJECTS) I am in favor of the medical research on humans/infants that could save or benefit future generations. For as long as the researcher would strictly adhere to three principles to ethically conduct a research on human subjects it would always be fine for me. The first principle is, the researcher must believe that the human subject in the experiment has at least the same chance of doing as well as a patient in standard therapy. Second, human
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As a healthcare professional, you make critical decisions. However, making those decisions and making sure no ethical principles are violated is very important. In this paper, I am going to go over six medical cases, what ethical principles are violated, and what I believe should be done in regard to the situation. Hannah Jones is a 13-year-old girl that needs a heart transplant. She needs the heart transplant because she used to have leukemia which required her to receive chemotherapy, which in
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Over decades, ethical dilemmas like The Trolley or The Transplant have been discussed in great details by philosophers. Different schools of thoughts offer various arguments to whether it is morally right or wrong to kill or let die. In the example of the Transplant whereby a doctor has to choose to kill one healthy person to save five sick patients or let the five die, it is morally impermissible to kill the one person. According to Utilitarianism, an action is ethical if it maximizes the happiness
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international. There are certain advantages in taking up such profession by looking forward in the future once they have finished their studies, however, if we have advantages we also have disadvantages in taking this course. One of the most ethical dilemmas in nursing profession is how to handle difficult patients and families. Most of the times, our Nurses worked with different families and patients with various ages and backgrounds. Often, the foundation of these issues has to do with poor communication
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