Ethics Week 2 Paper Group A – In group A I chose to answer choice two. I think that it would be just plain wrong to withhold the information from the airplane pilot. To me withholding the important health information airplane pilot is plain evil and wrong. In this week’s lesson we learned that no act is always and everywhere right or wrong. Whatever a person believes to be right is right for that person and vice versa when we feel that something is wrong. This is why it would be important to discuss
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Today's school counselors deal routinely with complicated situations in which students have acute counseling needs, including cases of severe depression and suicidal ideation, pregnancy, substance abuse, school violence, and child abuse (Page, Pietrzak, & Sutton, 2001). To respond adequately to these needs, counselors must have both strong clinical skills and a keen awareness of the legal and ethical ramifications of any actions they may take or fail to take. These mandates are particularly challenging
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Ethics Case Study Every health care professional has his or her own scope of practice. This means that there are certain activities that a healthcare professional can do based on his or her trainings, licensures and certifications. Bylaw, there are certain boundaries that one needs to abide. In the case study, Jerry McCall is a medical assistant and a License Practitioner Nurse. He has a LPN license that allows him to perform his job as a nurse. LPN is different from a Registered Nurse. Although
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Ethics, What is it? Merriam-Websters dictionary defines it as “The discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral duty and obligations.” Yet, if we look at many of the things we take for granted today, they remain available to us because of certain unethical and immoral activities that occur. Lets look at two very controversial issues that have come up today; water boarding and genetic engineering. Is water boarding a form of torture or not? Both sides bring a valid argument to the table
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legal positivism is justice the same as legality. legal positivism affirms positive law as the basis for decision making when a business manager is confronted with a moral problem. Rejects the view that law can be measured against any objective universal true moral standard. the question as to whether a low is moral or immoral can not ethically determined. Law itself supplies the standard for morality which is an admittedly relative standard derived from the positive law prevailing at a particular
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Introduction Ethical decision-making is a process where one decides on a course of action based on ethical and professional principles. The ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, justice and nonmaleficence are often brought into consideration in ethical dilemmas. Healthcare professionals often use these ethical principles as a premise to make morally sound judgements on care provision. Ethical dilemmas surface when these principles conflict with one another. The correct course of action
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Memorandum To: File Reviewer From: Angela Warren Date: 11/8/13 Re: Heart Transplant As the surgeon for this case I received a call today telling me that a heart has become available for one of three patients that are in need of a transplant. I must make a quick choice in which patient will receive the heart and then schedule him/her surgery for today. I must set up anesthesia, surgery room and have all the required personnel to help with the preparation for the transplant. According to
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Ken Lewis’ Ethical Dilemma by Kristen Carmichael Professor Kelly Global/Ethical Issues in Business August 20, 2010 Two years ago, Ken Lewis, the former CEO of Bank of America, was confronted with an enormous predicament when Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson requested that his company immediately acquire Merrill Lynch to save them from declaring bankruptcy. With the financial system of the United States on the verge of collapsing, how do you say no to the Federal Reserve Chairman and the Secretary
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contents critical thinking thinking critically about ethical issues 1 ETHICAL REASONING 3 2 VALUES-BASED ETHICAL REASONING 9 3 RIGHTS-BASED ETHICAL REASONING 15 4 CONSEQUENCE-BASED ETHICAL REASONING 20 5 ERRORS IN ETHICAL REASONING 25 5.1 THE IS/OUGHT FALLACY 25 5.2 THE ARBITRARY LINE FALLACY 27 REVIEW OF TERMS 29 THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE 29 THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT WHAT YOU HEAR 30 THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT WHAT
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Famine, Affluence, and Morality: To Give or Not to Give PHI208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instuctor: Noel Sauer October 14, 2013 With his focus on the state of the people in Bengal, India, Peter Singer gives us (in his opinions) the ways in which the inevitable, non-unavoidable death and suffering that is taking place there can be stopped. In his article, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Singer draws the conclusion that if we not only has individuals, but as a government [as a whole] would
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