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…

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…

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…

TRUTH-TELLING 2 The Importance of Truth-Telling 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…

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…

Is the government slowly taking over our lives? They control whom we can marry, whether we can vote, the information we have access to, and now they want more. In 1973, the Roe v. Wade trial gave the constitutional right to safe and legal abortions. So why do women struggle every day to find access…

Today we will discuss the dilemma of euthanasia. Euthanasia also known as mercy killing is a way of painlessly terminating one’s life with the “humane” motive of ending his suffering. There are different types of euthanasia: voluntary, non-voluntary, active or passive.  Euthanasia is passive when it merely allows the death of the individual. Euthanasia is…

How did Amgen’s unethical behavior contribute to the problems with Medicaid kickbacks? According to the Anna Richo, Amgen’s Chief Compliance Officer, Amgen strives to conduct business in the “highest ethical manner”. According to the site, Amgen each employee will be held accountable for any unethical practices. The code of conduct clearly states that all staff…