Tyler | Compassion | March 11/13 | A compass is a navigational tool used to guide its user in a desired direction. It has four directions; east‚ west‚ north and south. A moral compass‚ which I have recently learned‚ is also used to guide its user in a desired direction. A moral compass‚ when used‚ will provide its user moral focus as the user learns to lead in an ever more challenging and demanding world throughout their life and career. A good leader needs a moral compass that
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A CRIME OF COMPASSION This woman is not a murderer. Barbara Huttmann is a long time nurse who gave a man named Mac his wish to just die and not continue to suffer. Mac had terminal cancer‚ was on loads of pain medication that wasn’t working and at a hospital where the policy was to resuscitate any patient that stopped breathing. But he begged her to stop them from resuscitating him and so she did. What Huttmann did was not wrong. Mac had the right to die with dignity
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Barbara Bergmann Barbara Bergmann is a forerunner in feminist economics with a passion for social policy and equality‚ especially relating to discrimination on account of race or sex. Barbara R. Bergmann writes on economic and social policy‚ with recent works on Social Security‚ child care‚ poverty‚ women’s place in the economy and the family‚ and the labor market problems of women and African Americans. She is Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Maryland and at American University
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Barbara‚ a nurse‚ is accused of “murder”‚ by the audience of a TV show named the Phil Donahue show. She had a patient‚ named Mac‚ who had lung cancer and was resuscitate 52 times. It was between the years of 1970s and 80s‚ and the law of how many times someone should be resuscitated have not passed yet. Barbara injected Mac with pain medication and did not press the code button until after he was dead. Now after being resuscitated for that amount of time you could only imagine his pain and stress
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but when I read "A crime of Compassion"� by Huttmann ‚ I changed my mind. A terminally ill ends a life of a person who suffered for 6 months and was resuscitated fifty two times in one month. Terminally ill should be a reason to accept whether the person wants to be alive or just die and stop suffering. Only the patient must have right to decide about his own life not even his family has the right to decide for him. Mac was a patient in the story "A crime for compassion"� who wanted to die and stop
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This portfolio will provide evidence of my experience in an acute care setting. I will provide an appendix giving a brief summary of a patient I cared for whilst undertaking a placement in an acute setting. This portfolio of evidence will be based on a patient diagnosed with sepsis secondary to her chest infection. I will discuss extensively the aetiology‚ pathophysiology and clinical features of a patient presenting with sepsis treated in an acute care setting. I will explore the role of the different
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• Compassion o Definition according to Miriam-Webster: Compassion is the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” This definition reveals that to be compassionate‚ you must first be conscious to other’s suffering around you. If you have compassion‚ the observations you make then evoke a desire within you to not just leave someone in distress‚ but to do something to change their situation. o Definitions of compassion in nursing care: Compassion is a
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worldwide catastrophe‚ where most of humankind is dead‚ and the ones that remain are immoral. The world Cormac McCarthy depicts is so awful that even a tiny hint of kindness seems heroic. Compassion looms throughout the novel‚ and is something that is not necessary but given. McCarthy frequently associates compassion with the boy. Because the boy is so naïve‚ we see that his kindness comes from his innocence and goodness of his heart. Because the boy was born in the middle of whatever catastrophic event
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Compassion fatigue‚ also known as secondary traumatic stress (STS)‚ is a condition of gradual lessening of compassion over time (Sabo‚ 2011). It is common among individuals who work directly with victims of trauma like nurses‚ psychologists‚ physicians‚ cancer-care providers‚ emergency room personnel‚ chaplains‚ and other healthcare professionals. Nurses intend to provide compassionate and empathetic care to patients but become victims of continuous stress while meeting the needs of the clients and
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Ethics of compassion To help explain the ethics of compassion I will be using reference from the Dalia Lama’s book Ethics for the New Millennium‚ more specifically chapter ten; The Need for Discernment‚ and chapter 5 The Supreme Emotion. I will also refer to Touching Peace‚ and the five mindfulness trainings. The Dalia Lama had so many strong points it was hard to find any criticisms in his philosophies. One thing that concerned me was how he recognizes people who kill and torture for pleasure
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