Wednesday 11 June 2014

Ethical decision-making frameworks

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?


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