Lung Transplantation: Should Smoker’s Lungs Be Used as Donors for Lung Transplants College Writing‚ GE201 April 10th‚ 2013 Lung Transplantation: Should Smoker’s Lungs be used as donors for lung Transplants With the extreme shortage of vital organs for transplantations‚ research continues to decrease mortality rates of patients waiting for organs while on transplant waiting lists. While researchers found that receiving a lung from a donor with a smoking history correlated
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Establishing health priorities is critical to ensure that resources are used in the most effective way possible as the government is in control of how the majority of these resources are allocated. Social justice principles are the foundation for identifying priority health issues in Australia. The social justice principles include equity‚ diversity and supportive environments. Following these principles and identifying priority health issues experienced by particular population groups ensures the
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Resource allocation is the delivery of resources‚ typically financial‚ among competing groups of people or programs. Because of the increasing need for healthcare services and increasing costs to supply those services‚ Americans must decide how to allocate healthcare dollars. A number of ethical questions arise when talking about healthcare resource allocation. The paper answers the ethical question of whether hospitals should charge uninsured patients more money than insured patients for the
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down point will be reached within the industry. Farming revenue is irregular
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resuscitate the infant but was unable to revive him. It was shortly after cardiac arrest began that another nurse noticed the dose of medication administered was incorrect and intended for an adult. Of the 5 key Ethical Principals‚ nonmaleficence was clearly the misconduct at hand. Nonmaleficence is “to do no harm” and the error in this case is lack of patient confirmation when administering a medication. This could have been entirely preventable if the nurse administering the medication at the time would
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there are three key ethical principles. Autonomy‚ this applies to the freedom to one’s choice and for this reason the right to self-determination; Nonmaleficence means no harm is to be made to patients intentionally or unintentionally and; Beneficence‚ this implies doing good for patients. In case of an emergency‚ treatments may have to started without consent‚ e.g.‚ in a traffic incident when the patient had a cardiac arrest‚ this complies with the ethical principle of beneficence. Obtaining a therapeutic
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Reflection on the Ethical Teachings Found in Confucianism Confucianism‚ a religion of optimistic humanism‚ has had a monumental impact upon the life‚ social structure and political philosophy of China. The founding of the religion goes back to one man‚ known as Confucius‚ born a half-millennium before Christ (McDowell‚ 1983). And even though many people refer to Confucianism as a religion‚ many others say it really is a philosophy of life‚ not a religion. Confucius believes in harmony between
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held to rules and certain ethical principles that must be followed at all times. Each disciplines discussed has it own set of ethical principles. However‚ there have been many cases where each of these professionals broke these ethical principles‚ facing legal consequences for their inappropriate and unethical actions. Speech pathologist‚ occupational therapist‚ physicians‚ psychologist‚ and teachers have very similar ethical principals they must follow. Ethical principles are given to each of these
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KIDNEY TRANSPLANT Content Page Introduction 2 Background: History of Kidney Transplants 4 Medical Technique 7 Social Issues Related To Kidney Transplant 12 Bibliography 13 Introduction The kidneys are located at the rear of the abdominal cavity and are approximately 10cm long and 5.5cm thick. They are packed with roughly one million microscopic filtering units called nephrons. This huge supply of filters correlates with the main function of kidneys
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……………………………..………………………. 4 Two factors that determine ethical and unethical behaviour ……….. 5 - 13 Three roles management play in encouraging ethical behavior…….. 14 - 17 Reference….……………………………………………………….... 18 INTRODUCTION Ethical behaviour within organisations This paper describes what exactly ethics‚ which factors influences ethical behaviours and what can be done by managers in an attempt to encourage good ethical behaviours within organisations. In doing so we will look at what is an
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