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Papers On Medical Ethics
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Nursing Ethics: Mr. V
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A 10 page paper discussing a case of ethics of choice. Mr. V is terminally and wishes to give up his struggle. He is on a morphine drip, and the nurse on duty has instruction to decrease the drip should his respirations drop to four per minute. Mr. V maintains that he was resuscitated against his wishes; the nurse claims she merely followed instructions. The paper discusses the ethics of the case in terms of the philosophy of Kant and Mill. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSnursEthMrV.rtf
Nursing Ethics: Confidentiality
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A 6 page paper discussing an ethical dilemma faced by nurses in an emergency department. A man has made another appearance there because he failed to take his anticonvulsive medication and had a seizure at a movie theatre. The ethical dilemma is that the nurses know that the man drives regularly and that he experiences seizures with some regularity. The paper uses the principles of utilitarianism (Kant, Mill and Rawls) and nurses’ code of ethics regarding self-determination and confidentiality to conclude that the nurses must maintain confidentiality. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSnursEthSeiz.rtf
Nursing Ethics: Ending Life Support
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A 16 page paper that explores the issue of withdrawing life support interventions. This becomes a particularly difficult and controversial topic when the patient does not have a living will or advanced directive on file. This essay discusses the role of the nurse in this situation and the ethics involved. The writer proposes that this is an ethical and moral decision and act under specific conditions. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: PGendlif.wps
OpEd: Right of Refusal
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This 5 page paper argues that in a narrow population segment, specifically the elderly, terminally ill, patients should be allowed to choose to end their lives rather than to continue unbearable suffering. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: HVRtRefu.rtf
Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide
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In six pages this paper examines the history, passage, and specifics of Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act, the controversial physician-assisted suicide issue and what states’ positions are on it, and the contributions of Michigan Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
Filename: TGpas.rtf
Organ Donation and How it Can be Improved
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In six pages this paper discusses how to clarify the confusion associated with donating organs and how organ donation rates can be improved through education that can lead to changing attitudes. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGdonor.rtf
Organ Donations
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A 6 page paper, and 3 page annotated bibliography, which discusses organ donations. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: RAoods.rtf
Organ Trafficking
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An 18 page overview of the problems inherent in organ transplantation as they relate to supply and demand. A situation has arisen where the rich prey on the poor. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: PPorganTrafficking.rtf
Organ Trafficking: Utilitarian, Consequentialist, Kantian and Virtue Ethics Perspectives
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This is a 5 page paper discussing ethical perspectives of why people should not continue with the practice of organ trafficking. The growing need for kidney transplants worldwide has led to an increase in international criminals organizations dealing in organ trafficking. Within the European market, these organizations are “pressuring poor Eastern Europeans into selling their organs” in order to “provide food and shelter for their families”. Unfortunately, there have been reports of dire consequences for the donors whose “state of health generally deteriorates due to a lack of any kind of medical follow-up, [as well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle” and most donors are sent home after only five days. While the Council of Europe has legal principles which in part state that “the body and its parts shall not be used for financial gain” many states within Europe and other parts of the world either disregard the principle of the Council or have substantial loopholes through which the principle can be ignored. The ethical controversies involving organ selling range from utilitarian, Kantian, virtue ethics, and consequentialist perspectives to name but a few. Many of these involve the idea of freedom of the agent or action in which individuals have the right to sell their body parts if they so desire or under which people have the choice and responsibility to society as a whole to stop the sale and exploitation of the poor within society to aid the rich.
Bibliography lists 8 sources
Filename: TJorgan1.rtf
Organ Transplant Policy: Australia
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6 pages in length. Australia, held in one of the highest regards with regard to organ transplant success rates, has found itself up against the same ethical wall as other global communities grappling with the issue of policy. There is no question as to Australia's desire to move forward as the medical community continues to improve quality and length of life, inasmuch as "the first successful living renal donor transplant" (Williams et al, 2007, p. 66) happened fifty years ago; however, the progression of policy over the years has illustrated a need to take a stronger legal stand on what is ethically allowable in this still-untapped and untested technological advancement. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TLCOrgTransAus.rtf
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