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Dealing With Unsustainable Health Costs

is based on the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Or, it could be the greatest pleasure or good over the least pain...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

An Ethical Consideration of the Drug Companies

Drug companies are often criticized for unethical behavior. The writer considers the pharmaceutical companies from an ethical per...

3 Nursing Theories as They Pertain to Geriatrics

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

Software Development and Ethics

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

How Can Doctors Get Patients to Comply?

who "cheats" on his diet (1994). Doctors merely expect patients to comply with their dictums but this author says that some like S...

An Ethics Case Study

any love relationship can be hurtful enters the picture. With this rationale, one can see that to have an affair with an ex-patien...

Five Questions on Medical Law

himself to be placed in charge of Thompsons case, he assumed the responsibility of having all adequate medical knowledge to pursue...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

Annotated Bibliography on Patient Restraint

physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...

Appendicitis Diagnosis and Computerized Tomography Scans

prior to patient/surgeon consultation (Lee, Walsh, and Ho, 2001). In reality, such approaches are limited given that the most acc...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

Physician Reported Syphilis and Ethics

what serves the greatest number serves the greater good" (London A12), rather than what is favorable for a few. Indeed, this has ...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Setting Boundaries in the Therapeutic Relationship

welfare must be protected at a premium. If our definition of boundary violations, however, overlap our standard practices a dilem...

Case Study of Patient Evaluation

The following are the five DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses based on the DSM Five-Axis determinations: Axis I: Alcohol dependence...

Establish Ethical Culture in Public Health

2007). It is much better and will have more impact if this training and communication happens in a face-to-face situation and not...

Ethics in Palliative Care

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

Healthcare Communication

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

Theories Of Ethics

Categorical Imperative and states that before we act we consider what the effect of that action would be if it became a universal ...

Starbucks Ethics

company that supplies bottled water is one example. It is estimated by 2010 Ethos, a firm which had the finding of safe drinking w...

Nursing Ethics/A Diabetic Patient

2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...

Ethics and Removing Medical Patients from Life Support

In 5 pages this ethical consideration discusses 3 philosophers' views on removing medical patients from life support. There are 5...

A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

The Dental Industry and Abuse Alert

transfer their own disrespect onto their families in the form of domestic violence. Loss of control is often an issue that is not...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

An Emergency Medical Perspective on AIDS

In a paper consisting of six pages AIDS' causes and treatment are considered with particular emphasis upon the minimal risks to he...

Treatment and Jehovah's Witnesses, An Ethical Dilemma

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

Therapists Need Ethical Sense

This paper discusses how therapists and counselors develop an ethical identity, how do they develop an ethical sense, and what is ...

Report of Actual Ethical Cases

Anyone working in any area of mental health or social services faces ethical challenges and dilemmas on a regular basis and it is ...