Summary Of Case Twenty-3: The Nurse's Role In Dying
Kirnpreet Dosanjh
March 19, 2015
PHIL 4401-006
Instructor: Timko
Mid-Term Paper
Nurses Hand In Aid-In-Dying In the case study, Case Twenty-three: A Fevered Hand On A Cooling Brow – The Nurse’s Role In Aid-In-Dying, by Peggy Connolly, David R. Keller, Martin G. Leever, and Becky Cox White; the question arises that, should nurses be ethically allowed to aid their patients in dying? Ethical situations in healthcare come up but when it comes to who is allowed to aid in death gets a little tricky. In this case study, the Death with Dignity Act in 1997 allowed anyone who was terminally sick to end their life with a lethal dose of medication that was prescribed by a doctor. But what the author is looking at is to oversee of a nurses role in this …show more content…
This case study shows us different areas and legal, moral and absolute rights of nurses. Human rights being for humans and made by us and natural rights for divine and natural rights we are born with. In the case study we come across many questions of ethics one being what if the patient is wanting death and whether or not the nurse should honor the request. In the rights perspective this is a positive right because the nurse is assisting another in successfully exercise their personal right. Killing someone is not a positive right such as murder but helping someone through a legal end of aiding in their death and giving them peace is …show more content…
Happiness is the also pleasure but in a different form because it gives us happiness over a period of time with no pain. This playing into the concept of nurses helping patients get their last wish of dying in peace. In this situation I believe John Stuart Mill’s theory of utilitarianism in the act of good leading to happiness being the most effective because at the end of the day it is all about the patient and their wants. Nurses do not want a patient to take their life away but because it is the last resort a patient may have and the only thing they can control is their death. Not all may agree with this theory but everyone has their different views regarding death but at the end health care providers such as nurses want the patient’s well-being and happiness even if they want a lethal agent to aid in their
March 19, 2015
PHIL 4401-006
Instructor: Timko
Mid-Term Paper
Nurses Hand In Aid-In-Dying In the case study, Case Twenty-three: A Fevered Hand On A Cooling Brow – The Nurse’s Role In Aid-In-Dying, by Peggy Connolly, David R. Keller, Martin G. Leever, and Becky Cox White; the question arises that, should nurses be ethically allowed to aid their patients in dying? Ethical situations in healthcare come up but when it comes to who is allowed to aid in death gets a little tricky. In this case study, the Death with Dignity Act in 1997 allowed anyone who was terminally sick to end their life with a lethal dose of medication that was prescribed by a doctor. But what the author is looking at is to oversee of a nurses role in this …show more content…
This case study shows us different areas and legal, moral and absolute rights of nurses. Human rights being for humans and made by us and natural rights for divine and natural rights we are born with. In the case study we come across many questions of ethics one being what if the patient is wanting death and whether or not the nurse should honor the request. In the rights perspective this is a positive right because the nurse is assisting another in successfully exercise their personal right. Killing someone is not a positive right such as murder but helping someone through a legal end of aiding in their death and giving them peace is …show more content…
Happiness is the also pleasure but in a different form because it gives us happiness over a period of time with no pain. This playing into the concept of nurses helping patients get their last wish of dying in peace. In this situation I believe John Stuart Mill’s theory of utilitarianism in the act of good leading to happiness being the most effective because at the end of the day it is all about the patient and their wants. Nurses do not want a patient to take their life away but because it is the last resort a patient may have and the only thing they can control is their death. Not all may agree with this theory but everyone has their different views regarding death but at the end health care providers such as nurses want the patient’s well-being and happiness even if they want a lethal agent to aid in their