Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing University of Phoenix Nursing 391 Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Marianne, the 79-year old woman who presented with a hemorrhagic stroke in a recent case study, brings up thought for ethical debate. Her outlook is poor, with or without surgery, and she has no advanced directive. Her husband and children cannot come to an agreement on whether life support should end or if all resuscitative measures should be attempted. The following paper will discuss
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field of social work and other helping disciplines. Being able to protect potential victims from harm and protecting clients from self-harm have become ethical obligations in social work practice. This area needs to be explored and understood by social work practitioners, educators, and social work students. Duty to warn and duty to protect have ethical implications for all social workers. Walcott, Cerundolo, and Beck (2001) describe the facts of the Tarasoff case. Prosenjit Poddar and Tatiana Tarasoff
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Ethical Organizational Johnny Fuller, Chris Palmer, and Randal Cunning MGT/216 February 15, 2008 Paul Malard Introduction The organization ethics program examined is Taste Wine and Coffee Bar. Moral and ethical issues faced by establishments that serve alcoholic beverages can become extensive. Bars and restaurants have the ethical and moral obligation of serving adults of a certain age depending on the state’s legal drinking age. This is not only a moral responsibility, it is a legal obligation
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Negligence Mishap A health care provider has a responsibility to provide safe and competent care to his or her patient. When a patient’s care is compromised, is not satisfied with his or her care, or does not have a successful outcome the legal system becomes involved because of today’s litigious society. Health care providers see lawsuits wrongfully filled, not valid, and some unjustly settled as seen in history of some cases settled, which society was just going for the money settlement. Yet there
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additional cost to reproduce/repackage the whistle involves exercising ethical decision making. According to the quality assurance manager, the whistles have traces of lead above the U.S. legal acceptable limits for children ages 7 and younger and the cost to reproduce/repackage is $100,000. It is my goal to resolve this dilemma in a manner supported by the Toy Company as well as protect the company while fulfilling our obligations. There are three possible decision alternatives to address the problem
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Social Responsibility What is Social Responsibility? Social responsibility is the obligation of an organization’s management to an organization’s management to make decisions and take actions that will enhance the welfare and interests of the society in which it operates. Social responsibility and the issues it comprises are always changing. During the early 1970s, emphasis in socially responsible firms was on anti-poverty issues. In the late 1970s, focus was on human rights and social injustice
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provided for clinical nurses in their complex roles in care of patients, education, research and management of some parts of health care system in the country. A national code can provide nurses with culturally-adapted guidance and help them to make ethical decisions more closely to the Iranian-Islamic background. Given the general acknowledgement of the need, the National Code of Ethics for Nurses was compiled as a joint project (2009–2011). The Code was approved by the Health Policy Council of the
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interesting ethical problem. Just to give us a bit of background context ; Edward Snowden was an employee of the CIA and NSA, who revealed details of several monitoring programs and American mass britanniques. For some peolpe he was considered like a hero because he has brought to light confidential information that deserves to be in the public domain and for other a villainous traitor because those put in danger his country, it is important to ask whether his revelations comes under the ethical or the
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RN at any time and they must base their decisions on the ethical and legal guidelines that govern the nursing profession. Body In the world of nursing we are faced with ethical decisions on a regular basis but it is how we handle these situations that makes the difference. As a nurse we are bound by the guidelines of the code of ethics. The ANA (2014) states the “Code of Ethics for Nurses is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of every individual who enters the nursing profession
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Methods to Prevent Legal and Ethical Issues Regarding Consent: Paramedics are responsible for assessing a patients capacity to consent and for making decisions regarding a patients well-being; paramedics face scenarios of extreme pressure where they are responsible for making decisions that have life or death consequences, not all of the decisions paramedics make are based on medical reasoning, paramedic’s also make decisions influenced by culture, law and ethics (3). Paramedics must display a level
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