AIDS-RELATED ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HIV/AIDS (Human immunodeficiency virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) raises challenging ethical and legal dilemmas for mental health professionals. Relevant issues pertaining to these dilemmas are examined in this article. Specifically‚ the authors review the following: professional responsibility‚ competence‚ and confidentiality. Special attention is paid to several court cases that have implications for mental health
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This essay is based on a case scenario and will critically analyse the ethical dilemmas that health and social care practitioner’s encounter with regards to: implications of consent‚ disclosure of personal information and maintaining patient confidentiality. The legal aspects of the scenario will be discussed in relation to the breaching of confidentiality and how the Data Protection Act (1998) can conflict with other legislation intended to protect patient’s rights. In addition it will identify
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Bibliography: Beauchamp and Childress. (2002). Ethics of Care. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Retrieved August 22‚ 2009 from http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/cavalier/80130/part2/II_7.html Engster‚ D Glass‚ D. (1992). On Children ’s Rights: A Response to Barbara Houston. Retrieved
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The principles surrounding ethics involve health care professionals analysing problems they face and decide if an action or practice is deemed right or wrong. Health care professionals must always ensure they work within ethical principles highlighted within their profession (HCPC‚ 2016). Virtue ethics is a frame work which focuses upon the character of the person rather than the rightness of their actions (Pozgar‚ 2010). Deontology states the rightness of something is based on actions used to reach
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Accountability This essay is about accountability in health and social care setting. Accountability requires the individual practitioner to take responsibility for their actions and the outcomes. The essay looks at the different areas of accountability such as‚ principles of care‚ delegation; four ethical principles. In this essay record keeping will be discussed. (RCN ‚2008) defines accountability as taking responsibility for the actions done by a health care worker or omissions in their daily
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Challenges of Robotics]"‚ IEEE Robotics&Automation Magazine‚ vol. 14‚ no. 1‚ pp. 35-42. Tapus‚ A. & Matarić‚ M.J. 2008‚ "Guest editorial: special issue on socially assistive robotics"‚ Autonomous Robots‚ vol. 24‚ no. 2‚ pp. 121-122. Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress‚ 2001‚ “Non maleficence”‚ PRINCIPLES OF BIOMEDICALS ETHICS‚ pp. 113-157
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Justice is rapidly and continually slipping in Indian Country. With the rise of crimes against Native women‚ including rape or domestic abuse‚ tribal jurisdiction is not granting women the justice they need. While the justice system is seen as the main reason for the absence of justice and protection for Native American women‚ some believe that Native women need to have roles in the justice system or the system needs to be changed. In this paper‚ I will analyze two articles‚ “Tribal Jurisdiction
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B7101: Personal Professional Effectiveness Main body: 2‚923 What is confidentiality? Confidentiality can be defined quite simply as a set of rules or a promise that limits access or places restrictions on certain types of information‚ but in this assessment‚ we are trying to draw the connection between confidentiality and the links it as to my specific field of nursing as also the substantial impact it as on my role. Being more precise than broaden in defining what confidentiality means
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“The purpose of medical science is to benefit the life and health of those who turn to medicine. It surely was never intended that it be used to prolong biological life in patients bereft of the prospect of returning to an even limited exercise of human life.”(Ashby & Stofell‚ 1995). The technology of artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) allows the provision of complete nutrition to patients who in the past would not have received such treatment. However‚ the wisdom of administering long-term
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org/site/rpt2005-part3/ Aulisio‚ M. & Arnold‚ M. (2008). Role of the Ethics Committee: Helping To Address Value Conflicts or Uncertainties. Retrieved from http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/article.aspx?articleid=1086034 Beauchamp‚ T. L.‚ & Childress‚ J. F. (2009). Principles of biomedical ethics (6th ed.‚ pp. 38- 39).New York‚ NY: Oxford University Press. Butts‚ J. B.‚ & Rich‚ K. L. (2008). Nursing ethics across the curriculum and into practice (2nd ed.‚ pp. 21-22). Sunbury‚ MA:
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