ETHICS CASE STUDY PAM SIMMONS UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX HCS/335 HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY STEVE LINERODE FEBRUARY 21, 2011 This is an ethic case study that is very important for everyone to know and to understand. People face different situations, every day in their lives. Whether it being a doctor, lawyer, or whatever, everyone goes through tough times. Ever since, we can remember, health care has been the main focus for an individual having anything that is wrong
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responsibilities and loyalties. The medical team feels strongly that the patient (Sarah) has a mental illness that requires hospitalization to ensure her safety. Although she is not agreeable to psychiatric admission, Sarah has demonstrated significant acts of self-harm and has lost the ability in her situational stress, mood disorder, and intoxicated state to make decisions that are in her best interest. She is clearly a danger to herself, and in good faith the medical team feels that it is their duty
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.....06 IV. Choice Decision………………………………………………….………………………………….…07 V. References References used……………………………………….………………………………….…08 I. Identification The ethical dilemma here is that Mrs. Margie Whitson, a 95 year old patient at Golden Oaks Rehabilitation Center, is going through tough times. She just lost her 73 year old son William to heart problems this week. She has also had to deal with losing her 88 year old husband, Earl, five years ago. She was happily married
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All four principles of Ethics are of significant importance and neither of the can be simply ignored. I personally feel that autonomy is the most important. This is so, because Autonomy speaks for equal rights and respect for all individuals. In a medical context, autonomy provides the right to individuals to freely determine their own choices and decisions. The best part about Autonomy in medical ethics is the fact that, it provides protection to those individuals or groups, that are
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Confidentiality Being a nurse patient confidentiality is common knowledge and we all know it is to be treated with the up most respect. In nursing school this is taught; it is part of the Nursing Code of Ethics. It is a nurse’s duty to keep patient information confidential. (American Nurses Association, 2012). However instances exist that allow for a break in this rule. In fact there are some instances where it would be a violation of a rule to not share a patient’s information. If a patient was to come into
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the issue of confidentiality, in regards to patients information and how these information are been utilized. Confidentiality is both an ethical and a legal issue. Keeping information about a patient confidential is a way of showing respect for the person’s autonomy; releasing information can damage the patient. As stated in Laureate (2012) explains that ethics is embedded into healthcare and involves the principles of autonomy; to respect the patient and help them make a decisions appropriate for
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of every client and an ethical duty of the medical community (Bourke, 2008). Maintaining confidentiality between the client and healthcare professional translates to a trustworthy relationship, especially with adolescents. This paper will discuss implications to breach confidentiality, ethical principles, alternatives and ethical committee applications to an ethical dilemma. Implications of Breach of Confidentiality To promote trust between the patient and healthcare provider is a good reason to
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The Decision of the Supreme Court on the PPACA Constitutionality From the moment the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was just in its proposal stage, it proved to be the most argued upon piece of US legislation of the last decades. It stirred controversy among the general public, medical professionals, raising concerns of various nature, including public health, legal, and ethical, to the delight of hundreds of political analysts
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Administrative Ethics Paper Tammy Guay HCS/335 November 21, 2011 University of Phoenix Administrative Ethics Paper There are many issues that may arise in concern to a patient’s privacy. There were no specific laws years ago that protected a patients privacy and rights. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) which was signed in August of 1996 which became a law under President Bill Clinton (Physicians Billing Associates International, 2006). The Health Insurance
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#1 Edmund Pellegrino states, in the Virtuous Physician and the Ethics of Medicine “that in most professional ethical codes, virtue and duty-based ethics are intermingled.” He is explaining how in both codes the medical professional is looking to the best interest of others, virtuously the patient. Virtue-based ethics is considered doing what is right not just because you are told to but because it is right. Duty-based ethics is the obligation and laws a person is expected to abide by with others
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