Essays on Medical ethics

Caring originates in the relationships of shared human experience. The nurses primary roles of promoting health, preventing illness, restoring health and alleviating suffering places the nurse in a position to always remain an advocate for their patient. A scenario has been created in which a terminally ill patient has asked the doctor about alternative healthcare…

In today’s society, more and more people debate whether or not humanity becoming to accept euthanasia. This means that individuals haven’t been sure how a terminally ill person can be helped. Having been made a great progression in medicine, is this action ethical and doctors are legalized to assist somebody who suffers a lot, or…

Singapore Nursing Board Standards for Nursing Practice defines that Nurses/midwives have the professional responsibility and accountability to uphold Standard of care and to contribute to their dissemination, interpretation and development despite medical advances, social and demographic changes and an increasingly complex healthcare delivery system that challenge the ability of nurses to provide safe quality of…

Death is an unavoidable event and happens to everyone. Death can be quick or it can make our love ones suffer miserably. Some people become very ill or have devastating physical problems they must deal with daily. They have a constitutional right to refuse treatment. Most patients trust In their doctor to help them deal…

Telling the truth is something that comes up for the majority of us in childhood. It is considered impolite to lie and when a lie was told, or you were untruthful, it was often considered a reflection of your parents’ moral attitudes. Unfortunately, we all seem to have been taught differently the exact nature of…

The Right to Die, Physician-Assisted Suicide ” I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect” — The Hippocratic Oath Physician-Assisted suicide is one of the most controversial issues in our society today. During the 1990’s, assisted suicide has become the subject…

There are five principles to ethical nursing. The first principle, nonmaleficence, or do no harm, it is directly tied to a nurse’s duty to protect the patient’s safety. This principle dictates that we do not cause injury to our patients. A way that harm can occur to patients is through communication failures. These failures can…

Josh tests positive for hepatitis C. DR. Smith who ordered the labs is also Josh’s brother-in-law. When Dr. Smith informs Josh that his results will be reported to the public health department, asks Dr. Smith not to report him as a favor since they are family and he promises to get treatment somewhere else. Josh…

Abortion is an exceptionally contentious issue that has been frequently argued over for the past few decades and most likely many years to come. Pro-choice has a different view to this whole abortion controversy. Pro-choice are of the view that it is the persons right to have an abortion if they want to and that…

Euthanasia Debate continues over the issue of euthanasia long after the court decision concerning Dry. Sovereign. Sovereign has been acquitted of murder in his assisted suicide cases and the court has created precedent for the legalization of selecting death. Euthanasia does take place and is selected voluntarily by patients who are in great pain due…