Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Nur391 January 14‚ 2010 Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing The American Nurse’s Association’s code of ethics provides guidelines to help nurses make ethical decisions with the patient’s needs as the main focus of concern. In the case where Marianne‚ a 79-year-old woman who is admitted for a hemorrhagic stroke and her family is in conflict over the decision to have surgery or not to have surgery‚ the code of ethics expresses the need for the nurse to be
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is debatable (Peck et al 1990; Meyers and Grodin 1991; Hodges and Tolle 1994) and decisions around its use at the end of life have raised significant clinical‚ ethical‚ and legal concerns
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In this article it explains the correlations between environmental issues and race. It says that environmental justice incorporates the principle of the right of all individuals to be protected from environmental degradation. the grassroots people are the only ones that took notice to the potential problem. That minorities are the impacted more by environmental pollution which can lead to mistreatment by the government. The equity has not been the same across the board putting minorities at risk
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Medical Marijuana There are a number of ethical issues that a nurse faces while in the clinical setting. One of these issues deals with using marijuana as medicine to treat patients. There has been controversy over medical marijuana ever since it was discovered that patients respond to it. There are many arguments supporting the use of medical marijuana in the health care field and many arguments in opposition of its use. The United States Congress classifies marijuana as a Schedule I substance
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There are several ethical issues that were presented in the A Tattle Tale case study. The main ethical issue is plagiarism. K.C.‚ one of TJ’s group member‚ presented an assessment that was copied from an internet source without proper citations. Even though KC attempted to paraphrase some of his assessment’s contents‚ it was still clearly plagiarized because parts of his papers were copied from an unidentified website. (Ling‚ 2009). The other ethical issues are submitting substandard work that can
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interview An Hunt. Ms. Hunt is a Family Service Specialist for a local social service agency. Ms. Hunt has been working in this field for two and a half years in the Foster Care Unit. Ms. Hunt reported their being many ethical issues that she faces everyday. Some of those ethical issues come from her own bias’s about what is acceptable and what is unethical according to her own norms and what is actually written in policy. Ms. Hunt reported that honest is very important in the child welfare system
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Ethical Issues in Information Technology The society develops with unbelievable speed‚ from telegraphy‚ telephone‚ radio of 19th century to the modern 21th century‚ which is the Age with rapid developing and growing of knowledge and information. For example‚ Internet has been used widely everywhere in the world. We call it “global‚ Web-based platform‚ this platform enables people to connect‚ compute‚ communicate‚ compete‚ and collaborate anywhere‚ anytime to access limitless amounts of information
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Cross-Cultural Perspective: The Cultural and Ethical Issue of Globalization Many American companies that are outsourcing jobs to other countries create a problem in the economy of the Unites States and also creates a cultural effect in a global scale. To this day‚ The United States had lost millions of manufacturing jobs compared to two decades ago (Heffner‚ 2012). Americans can no longer compete to international manufacturers‚ which put the United States economy in doom. There are many factors
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Current Ethical Issue in Business Introduction Ethics and moral obligation are something that we all encounter at one time or another. Even in a professional setting‚ all persons should act in a manner that would uphold the good of society. Why is it that good‚ ethical and moral behavior is not always adhered to? Is it because some people do not understand ethics and what it means to be ethical? To be ethical‚ one has to decide between right and wrong‚ determine what is for the betterment of
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Thank you for sharing such good examples and you tackle successfully in first one (prevent misconduct on worker compensation). According to Finch‚ Geddes & Larin‚ (2005)‚ ethical dilemmas were more often settled when there were less emotional sequel related with the issues. However‚ second situations of RIPS model is challenging and morally distressful. I also have face that kind of situation in which we‚ as physical therapists (PTs) have their limitation especially‚ when physician involvement. I
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