Wednesday 25 June 2014

Critical Ethical Issues in Health Care

Deliverable Length:3–4 pages
An Appalachian patient in your health care facility wishes to stop treatment for his stage 4 bone cancer.His family is adamant that he continue the treatments.There have been multiple incidents where the family have verbally abused the nursing staff for consenting to the patient's wishes.You decide to convene the ethics committee.Discuss this in a paper of 3–4 pages, including the following:
  • Using the ethical decision-making frameworks of your choice, how will you lead this committee?
  • Who would you include in the committee?
Review the following Web resource for more information:
  • Decision Making Frameworks
References
Clowes, C. (n.d.).A critical examination of ethical decision making models.Retrieved from http://aux.zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/critical/html2/8062clowes.html
SME. (n.d.).Decision making frameworks. Retrieved from http://www.sme.ie/articles/business_ethics/decision_making_frameworks.pdf

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