999 Search Results for Ethical Decision Making in End of Life Care
APN COLLABORATION IN CULTURALLY SENSITIVE END-OF-LIFE CARE Advanced Practice Nurse Collaboration in Culturally Sensitive End-of-Life CareAdvanced practice nurses (APNs) are crucial in providing comprehensive and compassionate care to seriously ill pa Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Ethical Dimensions of End-of-Life Care in Nursing:
This essay will explore the ethical challenges and moral dilemmas nurses face when providing care to patients at the end of their lives. It will ex Continue Reading...
Ethical Perspectives
Ethical decision making is a method that is utilized by most of the health care professionals all over the world. The principles of beneficence and autonomy are very crucial when it comes to carefully guiding the decision making Continue Reading...
Ethical Decision Making Process
The case study at hand involves a number of issues. The first and foremost is that of the treatment and counseling of an addict that refuses to admit that he has a problem that needs to be dealt with in order for him Continue Reading...
Ethical Decision
Ethical Dilemma and Decision Making
In the selected scenario, a therapy patient is beginning to develop a trusting relationship with his therapist after spending a fir amount of time dealing with his depression. Under-employed and Continue Reading...
279-306) and therefore sets the foundation for the development of an ethical culture in the organization. Finally and most importantly, the product manager must concentrate on those customers served with the appliance and put their well-being, safet Continue Reading...
ethical hospice care is that it must be founded upon honesty. "Frank discussions about death and dying, clarifying knowledge of the underlying illness and knowledge of the dying process" is essential (Guido 2010: 35). However, this must be balanced Continue Reading...
Life Care
End-of-life care may be one of the most difficult aspects of healthcare services. After all, the goal of most healthcare providers is to heal, and providing end-of-life requires a shift in perspective. One of the challenges in planning en Continue Reading...
Introduction
When a family has to decide how much is too much, as Plakovic (2016) puts it during end-of-life care, there is a clear ethical dilemma that crops up for family members and care providers. That dilemma is related to the issue of how to ap Continue Reading...
Ethical Dilemma in Nursing Practice: End-of-Life Decision-MakingAn ethical dilemma I encountered involved a terminally ill patient diagnosed with advanced-stage cancer. The patient, a 68-year-old man, was on life support, and his prognosis was poor. Continue Reading...
The death of elderly individuals takes place in different circumstances and settings such as painless death at home or painful death in a healthcare facility. Social workers have an important role in planning end-of-life care as part of providing ess Continue Reading...
Moreover, the simulation also made available several branching and interdependent decision pathways. The simulations presented in the beginning pertinent background information and then subsequent screens presented at least three decision choices. B Continue Reading...
Cultural Issues in End of Life Care
In this age of increased social diversity the cultural aspects of end-of-life care have become increasingly important in the nursing profession. This importance is however complicated by technology and the cultura Continue Reading...
APNs have reported feeling greatly distressed when it comes to having to make end-of-life decisions because of a lack of support in this area. In conclusion, more effort needs to be put into making the lines less blurry for APNs so that they can mak Continue Reading...
That record must state that the patient's medical condition is terminal, irreversible and indefinite, involves permanent unconsciousness and that life-sustaining treatment would create tremendous or extraordinary burden on the patient. The guardian' Continue Reading...
End-of-Life Health Care
Imagine this scenario: a patient has end stage heart failure, coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sleep apnea. She has refused any invasive treatments for many years, Continue Reading...
Ethics and the End of Life
Sometimes, when a human life is coming to an end, the most crucial aspect of providing holistic ethical health care is not maintaining life, but maintaining a semblance of familiarity and routine for the individual in ques Continue Reading...
Life Dilemmas in Nursing
End of life
End of Life Dilemmas in Nursing: Issues with Euthanasia and How to Approach Them
A friend of mine had the unfortunate experience of having to make a decision about withdrawing health care from his terminally i Continue Reading...
End-of-Life Case StudyAbstractThe ethical issues that arise in decision-making process to end-of-life care will be addressed. Patients autonomy and preferences about treatment and end-of-life care should be respected by all parties which are inclusiv Continue Reading...
Ethical Issue
One of the most important ethical issues in nursing is how to approach end-of-life care. Nurses have a duty to provide compassionate care in ways that respects the individual’s autonomy and dignity. As patients live longer due to Continue Reading...
Ethical Decision
'Not to Resuscitate' is indeed a difficult decision that has to be made by the patient, when he or she is in good health, or the guardians of the patient. However, according to the law and ethical code of conduct, the medical practi Continue Reading...
Ethical Problem(s)
Relevant Values
Stakeholders
Decision Making
Utilitarianism
Problems with Utilitarianism
Deontology
Rawlsian Ethics
Ross's Ethical Theory
Natural Law Theory
Ethical Analysis
Scenario
A Pennsylvania hospital is faced wit Continue Reading...
Decision Making
Ethics is a philosophical term derived from the Greek word "ethos," meaning character or custom (Sims, 1994, p. 16). Ethics, therefore, is not just an ethereal concept belonging to the domain of philosophers and theologists, but a un 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...
In the former approach, tradable goods, money or services are exchanged between buyers and sellers at a rate that is agreeable to all parties. This approach assumes both the buyers and sellers have enough money, services or goods to have their needs Continue Reading...
Uustal (1993) proposed a decision-making model concrete steps arrive a morally acceptable solution faced ethical dilemma. What type ethical dilemma encountered clinical setting? How decision-making model identified Uustal applied situation? Be speci Continue Reading...
Controversial Cases of End-of-Life Decisions
For this discussion, we consider one the most controversial euthanasia case in the history of America - the case of Terri Schiavo who never regained consciousness after collapsing at her home on February Continue Reading...
Ethics
The Dowd Model of Ethical Decision Making in Medical Imaging: Two Dilemma Scenarios
Radiologic Alcoholic
An ethical dilemma is raised in a situation where two "right" courses of action are found to be mutually exclusive of each other; that Continue Reading...
Ethical Dilemma
Introduction
The following paper will narrate an ethical dilemma which has been faced by a nurse working is a local emergency department. The analysis of the dilemma will be done using Catalano’s (2009) ethical decision making a Continue Reading...
Ethical-Legal Dillema in Advanced Nursing Practice
Ethical-Legal Dilemma involving a Patient in Emergency Department (ED)
The case study discussed in this paper presents ethical-legal principles in nursing which protects patient's privacy, confiden Continue Reading...
Ethical-Legal Nursing Discussions - Part II
Moral Distress and Moral Integrity Comment by Ileana: OverviewMoral Distress in Advanced Practice NursingThe meaning of moral distress has been changing in nursing. No definition fits all dilemmas. Moral d Continue Reading...
Ethical Practice Involves Working Positively Diversity Difference
Counseling is a profession that involves associations based on principles and values ethically. Patients are able to benefit by understanding themselves better and through creating re Continue Reading...
As the narrow policy discussions regarding Physician-Assisted Suicide continue, we ought to encourage all presently existing and legal methods of reducing the painful sufferings during the last phase of life.
References
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Decisions by School Superintendents
Improper Attitude and Unprofessional Conduct of Teachers
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society - President Theodore Roosevelt.
That teaching is at one and the same time Continue Reading...
Ethical Issue of Assisted Suicide
The American Society of Registered Nurses [ASRN] ( 2010) defines "physician-assisted suicide" as the facility to a patient by a medical health professional of the means of ending his or her own life. Assisted suicid Continue Reading...
Ethical Dilemma of Assisted Suicide
"In the care of patients with terminal illness, arguably the singular purpose should be safe, effective treatment and relief of pain and suffering," yet it is within this context that a heated debate about assiste Continue Reading...
Ethical leadership is required to stop the 'Planned Obsolescence' principle in Consumer Product Design and Development
This paper attempts to identify and explain the issue of 'Planned Obsolescence' and whether the ethical leadership can help eradic Continue Reading...
Cultural beliefs transmitted by media include such notions as police officers are heroes. In reality, the media works in strengthening and affirming the cultural notions present in a society.
It holds true particularly for the messages about the et Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Impact of Nurse-to-Patient Ratios on Care Quality:
This essay would explore how different nurse-to-patient ratios affect the quality of care provided in healthcare settings. It could investigate outcomes r Continue Reading...