ethics

Ethical or legal issue that may arise if a patient has a poor outcome or sentinel event

Distractions are everywhere. They may include cellphones, multiple alarms sounding, overhead paging, monitors beeping, and various interruptions that disrupt your clinical practice. Give an example of an ethical or legal issue that may arise if a patient has a poor outcome or sentinel event because of a distraction such as alarm fatigue. What does evidence …

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Business ethics

            Assume that you are a cashier and your manager requires that you immediately enter each sale when it occurs. Recently, lunch hour traffic has increased and the assistant manager asks you to avoid delays by taking customers’ cash and making change without entering sales. The assistant manager says she …

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ANA code of ethics

Although conflicts in the work setting are inevitable sometimes, they affect healthcare delivery, resulting in challenges that could affect other entities such as the administration. In this scenario, there are potential ethical and legal implications for the various entities within the care delivery framework. First, the medical assistant might face ethical implications for prioritizing unimportant …

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Virtue ethics, ethics of care, natural law, empiricism, and intuition

  1. What are the known relevant facts of the case? Discuss virtue ethics, ethics of care, natural law, empiricism, and intuition found in Chapter 1 in your answers. 2. What is the ethical question(s) comes to mind? What issues must nurse Allie consider as she attempts to meet her ethical responsibility in this case? …

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Virtue ethics, ethics of care, natural law, empiricism, and intuition

  1. What are the known relevant facts of the case? Discuss virtue ethics, ethics of care, natural law, empiricism, and intuition found in Chapter 1 in your answers. 2. What is the ethical question(s) comes to mind? What issues must nurse Allie consider as she attempts to meet her ethical responsibility in this case? …

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Stopping the lottery

  a. Do you think the state has any intention of ever stopping the lottery, given the fact that the state relies on it to bring millions of dollars into its treasury? b. Is it possible that lottery can make everyone a millionaire? Is it ethical to suggest that the purpose of the lottery is …

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Ethics, Discretion, And Decision Making Iundividual Project

You are a sergeant in a community relations unit in a mid-sized metropolitan police department. Your division commander sent you off to a 1-week ethics school run by the Justice Department. You have returned with all kinds of new knowledge about ethics, community relations, and discretion. In your after-action report to the division commander about …

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Factors you would consider in order to provide ethical, timely communication

            An important aspect of leadership is understanding how to tailor communication based upon the recipient of the message. Thinking about the “A Case Study of Environmental Injustice: The Failure in Flint” topic material, discuss how the public health message you would send to the affected community would differ from …

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After Rana Plaza

  1. Who was responsible for the collapse of Rana Plaza, and why do you think so? In your answer, please address the responsibility, if any, of the building owner, factory owners, Bangladeshi government, U.S. and European governments, Bangladeshi workers and their advocates, clothing customers, and apparel retailers and brands in the United States, Canada, …

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