1000 Search Results for Ethical Decisions in a Patient's
Euthanasia is a Moral, Ethical, and Proper Social Policy
When it is carried out with a competent physician in attendance and appropriate family members understand the decision and the desire of the ill person -- or there has been a written request b Continue Reading...
Schneck Medical Center
Provide a description of the company, its mission, and values
SMC (Schneck Medical Center) is a nonprofit healthcare organization that provides specialized and primary care services. The center was established in 1911 with a Continue Reading...
A biopsy of the bone marrow is the only way to be sure that it is leukemia.
TREATMENT
Treatments for leukemia can vary depending on the stage, the age of the patient, the type of leukemia, and the advanced or infant stages that it is in, but most Continue Reading...
Health Advocacy Campaign
The basic purpose of the consumer education programs is to promote awareness about the effects that tobacco has on our health. These programmes have basically been made in a way to induce fear in the people in order to empha Continue Reading...
But the failure must be corrected within 30 days from the time of notification of the violation. Criminal penalty will be imposed on a person who knowingly obtains and reveals identifiable health information and violates HIPAA Rules at a fine of $50 Continue Reading...
Nurses Ethical Leadership
There are myriad valid definitions and descriptions of leadership in society, and in the healthcare field there are important leadership styles of substance. Nurses, a vitally important component of the healthcare field, mu Continue Reading...
Nursing Experience
After spending a semester in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as a student nurse in training, I can report that I have learned a great deal about the vital issues and practices that are involved in the intensive care unit f Continue Reading...
Gay marriage is a topical and controversial issue, as evidenced by the subject's coverage in the media, presence on ballot initiatives and the high visibility of the controversy in general. There are a few different ethical issues where gay marriage Continue Reading...
Stem Cell Research / Parkinson's
Since Barack Obama has become president, the field of stem cell research has been given new life. One of Obama's campaign pledges
was to allow deeper research -- including the use of federal research funds -- into t Continue Reading...
business strategy class, group assigned a case study. It a 12-20-page paper, responsibility write 4 pages, part write. Here teacher instruction: "A case study assigned group. Additionally a rubric showing material case study included.
Ethics: Eutha Continue Reading...
Albert Schweitzer once stated, "A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives" (n.d.). A pronouncement that in 1952 - when he won the Nobel Peace Pr Continue Reading...
Shonda Rhimes' TV series "Grey's Anatomy" presents life in a Seattle hospital as doctors and students are struggling to provide patients with effective treatments. Season 7, episode 19 presents one of the protagonists, Meredith Grey, as she tampers w Continue Reading...
Organization Project
Intermountain was started as a small healthcare nonprofit organization, situated in Salt Lake City. With its well-crafted mission, a clearly stated vision, patient's oriented philosophy and a strategy to manage the organization Continue Reading...
Reparative Therapy for Homosexuals
The issue of homosexuality needs to be a major controversy within the social environment. All across the world people are still struggling with the idea that they may or may not be, homosexual, especially within th Continue Reading...
Danville Airlines
The ethical and legal consequences of testing employees without their knowledge or consent puts Danville Airlines into a defensive position, having to both explain to David Reiger why they are not letting him fly, and potentially t Continue Reading...
Lisa was a sophomore and while in the Alternative school, as was the case in the regular high school, she had been a student who had been in trouble frequently for talking back to and swearing at teachers, skipping class, not doing homework, hanging Continue Reading...
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Founded by entertainer Danny Thomas, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is celebrating its fiftieth year of operation; in that time the hospital has conducted important research and cured / saved the lives of Continue Reading...
The objective is to impede rumination. 3. In the third stage -- relapse prevention or rehabilitation -- Mr. Thomas will be encouraged to participate in activities (such as hobbies that he enjoys, listening to music, socializing, his work and so fort Continue Reading...
The one question I have about my behavior was the fact that, as her advocate, I called and spoke to the patient's father with her permission. I stressed the fact that she was dying and if he wanted to see his daughter alive, he should come shortly. Continue Reading...
Mrs. M is a 60-year-old who was diagnosed with early onset dementia and has been experiencing brief moments of memory loss. She has been living with her daughter L. L has been jobless since she completed her undergraduate studies one year ago. Mrs. M Continue Reading...
Ethical, Legal, And Business Considerations in Hospitals
The nursing staff employed at the Cancer Center of a suburban hospital is having a continual deterioration of their morale. Many of their patients, more so as of late than usual, are being dia Continue Reading...
Resuscitate (DNR)
What is a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order?
First used about fifty years ago, the do not resuscitate (DNR) order continues to elicit questions and discussion among medical experts and patients. The do not resuscitate order is a dir Continue Reading...
Healthcare incentive program
Nursing Informatics/Meaningful use
Meaningful Use Program
Overview of Meaningful Use program
Meaningful use is basically an enticement program available for healthcare providers and hospitals for attaining the aims a Continue Reading...
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Danielle Ofri's "Living Will" -- response essay
Danielle Ofri's "Living Will" deals with the idea of hospice care attitudes in the situation of individuals who are terminally ill an Continue Reading...
Bioethics -- Assisted Suicide
THREE-STEP MODEL-BASED ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF ASSISTED SUICIDE
Introduction
Assisted suicide, or euthanasia, is a controversial topic because it contradicts one of the most fundamental values of American and other Judeo- Continue Reading...
Many of the chapters relate to medical research as well as medical procedures, with the informed consent issue in particular affecting both human beings involved in medical research and those facing a medical crisis and wanting to now what their tre Continue Reading...
Jehovah's Witness And The Advanced Practice Nursing
All over the world advance nurse practitioners are often faced with ethical and legal dilemmas in the course of their practice. Dilemmas occur when a practicing nurse is in a situation where they a Continue Reading...
Nurse Research
Decision theory describes the rules and standards that are used to make some specific form of decision or judgment. With respect to data analysis, decision theory describes the rules and procedures that should be used to interpret the Continue Reading...
Tay-Sachs Teaching Plan
Desired patient outcomes
The patient to understand the genetic nature of Tay-Sachs disease.
Patient to understand the treatment options for Tay-Sachs disease.
Patient to understand the prognosis of Tay-Sachs.
Patient to k Continue Reading...
Ethics in EOL Decisions
Finding Common Ground in EOL Care Decisions
Churchill (2014) presents to readers a case study to highlight some of the ethical and moral issues that will occur during end-of-life (EOL) decisions. The case study is not a fact Continue Reading...
My solution has the potential benefits including the following. First, our hospital would be hailed as a progressive institution that serves all members of its community. Second, our hospital would benefit from improved quality of care. As a family Continue Reading...
Integrative Case
The case involve M, a 35-year-old mother with three children from two fathers. He most recent boyfriend, the father of the youngest child, has beaten her twice, been arrested and jailed, but is about to be released. Despite a restra Continue Reading...
Patients have a right to know if their doctor's decision to prescribe a certain medication has been influenced by free lunches or other perks, rather than that doctor's objective overview of prescribing information.
In fact, the real ethical issue Continue Reading...
Medical Ethics and Decision Making
Do Doctors Need More Guidelines?
New Revolution in Ethics
In 1988, what many called the 'third revolution' in medical care came about (Dunevitz, 1999). The first revolution was after the Second World War, and thi Continue Reading...
Nursing Ethics
Ethical behavior, especially in the medical community, is important in all aspects, but especially in the treatment of patients. All patients, no matter what their religious affiliations or beliefs, deserve the best possible treatment Continue Reading...
The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) is another tool frequently used with older adults (Charlson, Pompei, Ales & Mackenzie, 1987). It is comprised of 19 comorbid conditions that give a complete indication of the patient's state of health.
The b Continue Reading...
(Hummelvoll, 1996, p. 13)
The professional relationship that the client has with the nurse is often one of the most fundamental of all the relationships the client has in his or her life. The nurse can act as an advocate between the client and othe Continue Reading...
Nutrition: Ethical or Unethical?
Should nurses withhold or withdraw nutrition & Hydration from terminally ill patients? This is a question that boggles the mind. Some feel that withholding anything from any patient is unethical, while others fe Continue Reading...
Ethics in the Practice of Psychology
Ethical Decision-Making
Identify the problem.
The therapist must decide how to respond to several potential ethics issues that the client has brought to the client-therapist relationship. The therapist is consi Continue Reading...
relationship risk insurance. 2. Determine ethical concerns health care management / administrators professionals contend resulting supply demand insurance. 3.
Relationship between risk and insurance
Risk is defined as the potential of a certain ac Continue Reading...