Ethical and Moral Dilemma in Health and Social Care Environment

This report discusses the ethical and moral dilemmas faced in health and social care environments. It explores different ethical theories, analyzes key moral and ethical issues, and explains ethical principles considering professional rules such as confidentiality and consent. The report also reflects on personal morals and values and their influence on self-professional practices.

Assignment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Ethical and moral Dilemma related to the issue occurring in health and social care
environment as well as in some other work based environment............................................3
Study of ethical theory’s, analysis of some key moral and ethical issue relating to health or
social science, explanation of ethical principle’s considering the professional rules such as
confidential and consent.........................................................................................................7
Reflection of own morals and values, identify the influence of these modules in the self-
professional practices. .........................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Gender, sexuality, and society are the most important factor which has to be consider in
the health care, social and other work place in order to mange the right functioning of
organisation. Because these factors are the causes the ethical dilemma in the organisation. Moral
and ethics are related to each other, moral is defined as rules and regulation for every day
behaviour, it can be set by any one on the basis of their trust in some ethical believes. ethics is a
seats of standard for right and wrong on the basis of some moral philosophy and history. Moral
of every individual can be different but ethics of a howl community and society is similar.
(Resnik, D.B., 2018) This report involves the study of different moral and ethical problem
solving challenges (Dilemma) face by social and health care environment and in some other
work based environment related to the Gender, sexuality and society. Usually the dilemma is
related to the gender because nurse face the challenge to treat apposite sex. It also involves the
analysis of different ethical and moral theory’s and how the ethical principle’s consider the
professional rules.
Ethical and moral Dilemma related to the issue occurring in health and social care environment
as well as in some other work based environment.
Ethical dilemma
It is defined as challenges face during the selection of one of the best right ethics from the
group of ethics and moral standards, options, for solving some of social and organization issues.
(Lee, L.M., 2017) The ethical dilemma is can be solve by using ethical reasoning.
Ethical reasoning
this can be done by the analysis of issues than the development of solutions the selection
of one of the ethical solution on the basis of morale principle. that means the selection of solution
which more relevant and satisfy the more principle highly (Nieder, T.O. 2020). than the analysis
of impact of solution. finally, the application of solution on that situation.

social environment is the culture and atmosphere where people live, and their way of
living, this environments form on the basis of moral and ethical believes. it consists historical
and modern believes of peoples. social environment is known as society. (Haahr, A. 2020). In
other hand health care environment is part of social environment it’s a particular field of study
and maintenance of health of all the living organisms. work environment is can different on the
basis of type of organisation and on the basis of type of business, it is also a part of living
environment related to social health care environment. this can be area of work and the nature,
rules, peoples, facility’s, guidelines and the properties of that work place.
Ethical Dilemma of social health care and other work place environment is the confusing
situation which create during the issues created in that particular environment to select the one of
the best ethical and moral solution (Benoit, C. 2018). short out by the ethical reasoning.

Dilemma face by Social and health care environment
For the explanations of social health care dilemma. we need to take one topic and asses
some of key issues occurs in that environment because it is difficult to cover all the topics as it’s
a broad spectrum and in the present time due to the pandemic Covid 19 the major issue is
spreading of disease, and sanitization. Now in that situation the health care and social dilemma is
arising explain below.
Spreading of disease- In the issue of health and social environment the question arises
that how to prevent the spreading of that disease and safe the humans when the Covid 19 is at the
stage of exponential growth, then there are multiple idea and solution is developed by WHO and
central government. such as lock-down in the areas of higher cases and the other options is lock-
down in the country and now the dilemma is that which one of the solution is right and more
ethical, (Reamer, F.G. 2017) the challenging and confusing situation created to select one of the
most ethical and moral solution is called as dilemma. To come out from the dilemma it need to
do ethical reasoning, and on the basis of ethical reasoning the best solution is lockdown in the
country because ethically it is more relevant as it saves the life of howl country. this type of
reasoning equally applies in the case of sanitization. this decision is taken by analyzing the
impact of that idea on economy, society, live. As this solution make the highest loss of economic
factors but it saves the life, money is important but life and health is more important than this we
can ern it later. Although the main thing is to inform in the smooth way about this situation so
everyone can plan according to it.
Other work environment ethical dilemma

For other work place such as for the reputed brand and company the ethical and moral
dilemma is can be related to internal and external factors. for e.g. in health care profession some
time very serious issues arise such as the difficulty in the delivery of pageant lady and there are
the chances of death of either baby or mother so the dilemma is that either we can choose to save
mothers life or infant life. to get over come from situation ethical reasoning will involves the
analysis of different factors such as, which one of them can get well soon and live healthy life,
who can be easily get save, who’s death is effecting the more, there is the chances of other baby.
then if there is the higher chance to save the mother than the priority will be mother.
In the business organization is arises at the point of brand image, profit, loss, customer
trust. for example, (Pishgooie, A.H. 2019). it has been analyzed that one of the food product of
branded company is causing same health related issues and death due to the addition of poison in
some of the product by some external victims. this is causing the death of customers and
decreasing the brand image. so solution is can be destruction of product from the particular aria
of case or the distract the product from howl world. Because it is international company and their
product are spread throughout the world, the target of victim is not clear, company is not able to
find out the victim. so the dilemma is selection one of the right option, by the help of ethical
reasoning it is clear that second option is best because it saves the life of customer and retain the
customer trust, brand image.

Study of ethical theory’s, analysis of some key moral and ethical issue relating to health or social
science, explanation of ethical principle’s considering the professional rules such as
confidential and consent.
Ethical theory’s
Ethical theory helps in the selection between right and wrong by providing evidence of
moral philosophies. It helps to select the best decision for the ethical dilemma, (Banks, S. 2018)
it can be formal statements and ethical standard, which help to understand the right, wrong and
the best from the right options. There are the multiple kinds of ethical theory’s related to the
health care, social and Business environment. such as deontology, rationalism, utilitarianism,
rights, virtue etc.
Deontology- In this type of ethical theory it involves the duty and obligation
(commitment) according to this class of ethical theory person should be do their duties and
commitments at time and with higher involvement at the time of critical situation to make ethical
decision. (Alvesalo-Kuusi A. 2018) It aims is to take the commitment for others society too. the
correct ethic’s is to support others for the completing of their duties, it states that the action is
important then results, but action should be done on the basis of some rules.

Rationalism- is the law which A moral and ethical rationalism says that reason can be a
way of view. So for solving any situation and analysing the effect of solution, the important thing
is to understand the reason to create vision.
Utilitarianism- Is an ethical theory according to which, every action taken for any
decision should be beneficial for everyone. this theory is given by John Stuart Mill he states that
for solving of any situation action selection should make everyone happy. every ethical laws,
rules and decision should be beneficial for every citizen of life and make them happy.
Rights- According to this theory rights standards of society should be updated and
ethically correct for society. rights are protected and follow by society in order to maintain
dignity and humanity. Rules and rights can be a correct until the group of people oppose that.
Virtue- on the basis of virtue ethical theory the person can be define by its position and
by the analysis of result of their hard work not by the characteristics of hard work. To know the
unethical behaviour of an individual and unethical result of things, it requires to undertake the
morals, reputation of that thing and person.
There are multiple types of ethical theory’s and moral philosophy, which helps to set ethical
rules and laws for good will of society. It helps to make right ethical belief’s in the society and it
is very important to make every one aware about the ethical principles and theory’s in order to
improve the ethical culture of society.
Moral and ethical issues relating to health or social sciences
In the social and in health care environment there can be a different kinds of ethical,
moral issues related to the various aspects of life (Lundberg, T. 2019). Such as responsibility,
age, sex, health, profit, loss, facility’s, culture, some other factors which should not be the part of
ethics but represent by society as an ethically right but this can be biggest ethical issues of
society such as cast discrimination, inequality in terms of rights, skin colors, financial condition.
(Sellers, C. Samuel G. 2020) It is ethical right of people to get equal respect in society, no
matter what is the sex, age, financial stability, cast, skin colure, area of living. But some
unethically developed moral beliefs are the maser reason of ethical issues in the social
environment. In health care environment the key ethical issue is related to diagnosis, treatment,
work place hygiene maintenance, age, sex, type of diseases. Issues can be ethical if they effect
the society and group of people. Moral and ethical issues of health care environment are
explained below.

 patient rights
 resources equality
 Patient confidentiality
 safety of patient
 conflict of interests
 privatization
 information concepts
 opposite sex handling
 starting and end of life
 health care ethical rules management
Ethical principle’s which consider the professional rules: It can be performance and
behavioural standards set by professional association. Some of the professional ethical principal
are explain below.
Confidentiality- Is the ethical principle according to which the important and personal
information, should be secure and safe, this vary on the basis of different environment of life.
e.g. health care patient, professional, customer information’s. (Beesley, P., 2019) In the
professional organization the most important role is confidentiality, this involves the maintaining
of secrecy of company data, plan and project strategies, new innovations of services until it
launches, and so on. For professionals entrepreneur, employees there should be same guidelines
to maintains the secrecy of organization, in order to prevent, copy of product, services, business
plans. o prevents the loss and sharing of some important data and resources. In health care
profession doctor should safe the information of patient health (Platt, L., Grenfell, P. 2018).
Accountant should make secure the information of their client, to prevent the interference of
external factors. Lawyer have to manage the secrecy of court cases. Journalist have make their
information sources secure. in professional organisation they save their information by making
agreements.
Consent- In the professional field consent is define as the law of taking permission for
any official and employment decision and it also related to the personal decisions of employees
when they have to take permission for personal leave from their higher authority’s. it’s a kind of

agreement, when one person gives the permission to other person, there are the four types of
consent, express consent, implied consent, informed consent, unanimous consent. mostly
informed consent is use in the professional field such as in the health care profession, doctors
have to inform their patient about the terms and condition of that procedure than getting the
permission of that.
Reflection of own morals and values, identify the influence of these modules in the self-
professional practices.
In my life I prefer to be right at every point, in the terms of ethics and moral, I want to
live my professional, personal life, social life by implementing some ethics and morals which
always help other that mines I don’t want to heart any one from my side. (Greenstreet, W., 2017)
In some case our family get hurt by us because of the different ethical belief’s, everyone has their
own sets of moral and ethical believe. but according to my point of view sometime society make
ethical believes just on the basis of history related to the particular agenda they don’t try to
analyses the ethical theory’s and update their ethical belief’s according to it. That is very
important to follow the ethical and moral theory’s and not just the cultural history. I believe to
respect everyone no matter what is the cast, region, age, economical status etc. I follow the
utilitarianism because I believe that our action should be helpful for every one and make
everyone happy, but in the society there are some believes which are vary unethical but they
represent it as ethically right, they just focus to take decision on the basis of those social believe
and do not think about the happiness of others. such as discrimination related to the cast, but I
don’t follow these unethical believes. I always try to compete my duty with in the time and help
others (deontology). My morals are honesty, kindness, hard work, equality, justice.
Morals and values of my life highly influence my personal and professional life. In my
educational practices it helps me to make the effective and kind image. helps me to give and get
respect from others. it helps me to make my importance in the group of student. it influences me
to complete my Daly routine by maintaining the hygiene. and also influence to help others in
their duties, which in return influence other to help me in my task of work. At my present
professional life same as my educational life it helps in the development professional practices
such as in the improvement of my communication and leadership skills which are the important
part of professional management (Hegarty, P. 2020). Because I am already having some morals
and value related to the primary qualities of communication and leadership which helps me in

the present and also it will also influence my future profession practices by helping me to step
forward. My morals and values will also help me to make my best image in my future profession
too. It helps me to make the trust for me in the others heart.
CONCLUSION
from the howl study it has been concluded that ethical and moral believes effects every
prospect of life. But that should be construct on the basis of ethical theory’s and moral
philosophies. ethical dilemma is spontaneous situation; it can be arising in any field of life so
everyone should be aware ethical reasoning that is the way to get over come from the ethical and
moral dilemma.
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