Ethical Issues In Medical Care

Medical care encounters of poor quality care can lead to deaths and increased hospital costs. Approximately 200,000 Americans die from preventable medical errors and in the United States in 2008 medical errors cost $19.5 billion (Andell, Davidsow, Hollander, & Moreno, 2012). Everyone deserves to have safe and efficient healthcare. Based on the commitment to uphold ethical principles to do no harm, always safeguard the patient, and act ethically (Sherwood & Zomorodi, 2014). Nurses should have the overall goal of enabling the patient to achieve his or her full potential in well-being. An adverse event is an undesired event, causing patient harm, not by the underlying disease, but as a consequence of examination, treatment or care (Andersson