The Law and Health Care Practice: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in End of Life Care

The Law and Health
Care Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Legal dilemmas which arise from the scenario...........................................................................4
Ethical dilemmas which arise from the scenario ........................................................................6
Self Reflection.............................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERNCES ..................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The legal system of Australia is administered regionally through Universal public health
insurance program which is sponsored or financed from the revenue collected by the government
in the form of tax in the interest of public. The main responsibility of Australian health care
system is to develop the national health policy by managing the system of Medicare including
private medical services and providing funding to states and territories for growth and
development in health care sector(Bnads, Orr, & Clements et.al 2021). The health system of
Australia is one of the best in the world, as it provides safe and affordable health care system for
all citizens of Australia. The Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights provides rights to all people
in all places of Australia including the public and private hospitals. The Health professionals
who are the Medical practitioners or Doctors are also abided by the duties to be followed by
them where their main duty is to assist their patient by providing them proper counselling,
appropriate care and legalised medication. This report will cover the practices in health care
system with legal and ethical dilemmas of health care system. The following case study is going
to exhibit the legal and ethical dilemma which is faced by the staff who was taking care of the
old age patient and also relates to the suggestion for overcoming such dilemmas.
TASK
The conduct of medical practices executed by doctors and nurses entails them to hold a huge
responsibility in performing and executing the health care services where they are liable for the
treatment of their patients. The following case will cover the issue of a patient named Mr. Ross
who is under treatment of colorectal cancer and taken care by me as nurse. The description of the
case is as follows:
I am working as a nurse in age care facility of Australia, where I am under charge of taking
intensive care of a patient named Mr. Ross, age 65 years. Mr. Ross is diagnosed with colorectal
cancer which is very dangerous type of disease, mostly found in men. In this cancer, a person's
large intestine gets majorly affected, where he faces many issues related to stomach that mainly
affects his digestive system (John, 2021). The walls of colon and rectum are deeply affected in
which the innermost layer, mucosa grows outwards through other layers. The cancer cells can
then grow into blood vessels or lymph vessels, which spreads to the distant parts of body. After
being diagnosed with cancer, he went through various treatments for improvement in his