A person’s autonomy is a privilege that is earned through the knowledge gained through life experiences. For children, the right to decide is withdrawn because the parent’s are thought to know what is best in the circumstances concerning their children. The ability to understand and comprehend the severity of illness or the consequences of decisions is lacking in adolescents. They are deemed incapable of making informed decisions thus incompetent; therefore, the parents are given the authority to provide or deny consent on behalf of their children. Similarly, elderly who are experiencing deteriorating illnesses may have an altered competence due to being in denial or having fear of the outcome.…
Informed consent is essential in nursing practice as it allows patients and health care providers to communicate effectively. It is not just signing a document instead it is used to inform the patient of, risk, alternative, benefit, and understanding of a procedure or treatment. Informed consent gives the patient the right to received treatment and the right to refused treatment or any other intermediations. However, there are three elements that the Joint Commission necessitates that health care providers must consider before offering the patient an informed consent including the information, voluntary consent, and competence (Westrick, 2014).…
- Users of health and social care services should be consulted and allowed to make independent decisions about their health and treatment. If for example a person should be taken to a theatre for an operation, he should be allowed to make the decision independently after being informed. It is important for organisations that are working in partnership to enable their clients make informed decisions. Individual should be taken step by step on the kind of treatment they are required to undergo. The underperforming nursing home does not give clients an opportunity to make informed decision and this has affected its performance because clients prefer going to nursing homes where they are allowed to make their own decisions independently.…
While reading through Mrs. Lyons’ lectures, and perusing both the ‘Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research’ and ‘Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry’ textbooks, while dissecting the minutiae that permeates all the ethical policies we have come across during the span of this course – The Common Rule, The Council for International Organization of Medical Sciences and its ethical guidelines, the role of purpose, power, profit in medical research, the extent to which rule, purpose and ethos dictate the balance of this fragile ethical framework, a framework that depends predominately on those in power heeding these policies, we can lose sight of the big picture, what this means for a research subject. In the attempts to masters these concepts, one can lose sight, one can forget, one can begin to ignore, the very thing these ethical constructs seek to protect – humans. Humans that are physically and emotionally fragile. Humans that with one artfully placed blow, whether physical or emotional, can be irreparably…
Healthcare professionals have certain ethical and legal standards that they must uphold while practicing their profession to ensure their patients are adequately and safely cared for. They also need to understand that every patient has a right to their own healthcare decision and this can be through written consent, voicing their opinion or through an advance care directive. This essay will concentrate on how a valid and legal ACD must be completed, the importance of valid consent, ethical issues relating to the patient having their on opinion, how to advocate for a patient and lastly, comparing the legal and ethical standards nurses and paramedics abide by everyday to ensure morally safe practice. An advance care directive (ACD) is a legal…
Topic sentence 1: A mentally impaired patient may still able to make decision for his or her healthcare. A mentally-ill patient can still refuse lifesaving treatment even if he or she is known as “mentally ill”. The term itself does not mean that the person is automatically derived from their capacity and rights. It is still very much depend on the patient’s degree of mental impairment. Due to that, all patients must be assessed for their capacity to give consent and must be given opportunity to receive adequate and effective information in helping them to understand the consent regarding such treatment.…
Vulnerable populations provide their own challenges. Some due to lack of specific or appropriate resources, some with history of bad experiences and unwillingness to try same level of care at discharge based on previous experience (even if NOT same SNF, resource). Some of these populations also have disjointed families so including or locating them in time of need can pose additional layers of difficulty. Nevertheless, to add to this, for the Veteran population, the VA system can be time consuming and burdensome to navigate, let alone the populations listed. There are waitlists and period limitations, limited support and assistance available.…
1. Dr. Kligman ran experiments on humans who are in prison. Discuss in detail one of the ethical principles from the textbook relevant to this situation. One of the rudimentary ethical principles that guide clinical nursing research is the protection of human participants, specifically the protection or the right to freedom from injury (Fain, 2015). This principle is inherent to the nursing to code of ethics of do no harm.…
The new NMC Code is a guide for nurses to reflect and reinforce their knowledge and skills they hold to ensure they practice effectively and safely to provide excellent care. The code is the core of the NMC standards and which nurses and midwives are required to follow. (Goldsmith, 2011) The NMC Code is separated into four main areas; Prioritise people; Practice effectively; Preserve safety; Promote professionalism and trust. Person centred care is based upon forming trusting relationships between nurses, patients and families.…
Issues Arising from the Scenario As mentioned earlier, respect for autonomy, as one of the Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics, will be used in May’s case. From the term itself, this principle involves to respect the decision-making capacities of an autonomous person, enabling him to make choices based on reasoned informations. Varelius (2012) believed that autonomy is so important because there are certain cases where patients should be allowed to make their own choices that would serve their wellbeing. However, there are several issues involved in this regard, especially in the case of May. 1.…
During the research, I concluded that The United States is one of the richest countries in the world; unfortunately, it is also the most expensive in health care system. The main problems with our vulnerable populations are access to health care and affordable health care cost. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC) divided vulnerable population into: disability, age, gender, geography, socio-economy status, risk status related to sex and gender, and other risk/vulnerable populations; include cancer survivors, immigrant & refugee, incarcerated men and women, Persons Who Use Drug (PWUD), pregnant women and veteran (CDC - Populations - At Risk - Other - Minority Health, n.d.). From the videos to articles show that immigrants…
The authors of an editorial in the Journal of Clinical Nursing stated that “a significant proportion of our adult lives are concerned with employing autonomy in all aspects of our interactions with society, all aspects it would appear except the nature and…
The steps health care providers need to take in order to ensure patients understand the consent is go over treatment option, outcomes/complication, and likely of success and complications. Health care professionals must comprehend issues and trends; more lives could be saved. Based on individual right to self-determination and autonomy I don’t think that patient consent form adequately informs patient to their medical rights. Self-Determinations and Autonomy give the patients moral and legal right to what will be done to them. Health care professionals must respect individual’s wishes and this must be followed by legislation, ethics standards and overall society value.…
Vulnerable population, according to (Galen, 2017), is an umbrella term for all the individuals who, due to a variety of factors, are at greater risk for poor health status and poor health access. There are several risk factors for vulnerability, such as: a person demographics, environment, socioeconomics of area, which makes these individuals have a greater risk for developing health problems because of challenges that include limited access to resources, poverty, marginalized sociocultural status, limited education, chronic mental illness, incarceration, age, or homelessness. (Knickman & Kovner, 2015). Two examples will be low economic population and incarcerated population.…
Introduction In order to sufficiently define and explain how vulnerable populations are, in fact vulnerable, it is important to first define them. In accordance with this, it is crucial to address in what ways they are vulnerable. Specifically in disastrous circumstances communities need to know what population among them is vulnerable and how they can be appropriately supported. Vulnerable Populations: A definition…