Ethico-legal complexities inherent in the situation

Running head: ETHICO-LEGAL COMPLEXITIES OF HEALTHCARE
ETHICO-LEGAL COMPLEXITIES OF HEALTHCARE
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

ETHICO-LEGAL COMPLEXITIES OF HEALTHCARE1
Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Discussion...................................................................................................................................................2
Key concepts of the ethical practice........................................................................................................2
Ethico-legal complexities inherent in the situation..................................................................................3
Ethical awareness....................................................................................................................................4
Driscoll’s model of reflection..................................................................................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................7

ETHICO-LEGAL COMPLEXITIES OF HEALTHCARE2
Introduction
Every day, the patients, family members of the patients, the healthcare professionals and even the
nurses face different ethical and legal issues in the matter of decision making policies. The dilemmas may
include different issues including the medical treatments, medical practices, management of the hospital
authorities and also different other issues. The ethical or the legal issues of the hospital requires
immediate actions as it involves with the life of the patient along with the reputation of the hospital
(McCarthy and Gastmans 2015). The nurse and the healthcare professionals must be aware about the
treatments that they are providing to the patients so that the patients or the family members of the
patients do not get the chance to go against the healthcare professionals regarding the bridge of the ethico-
legal issues (Roberts and Allen 2015) The assignment is dealing with a case study in which a small child
suffered because of the wrong dose of medicine and the ethical and legal issue is lying in the fact that the
hospital authority did not even informed to the family members about the incident. The assignment is also
going to describe about the development of ethical awareness and a self-reflection involving the practices
and the relationships.
Discussion
Key concepts of the ethical practice
The key concepts of the ethical practices includes the following principles:
 Autonomy- The autonomy means that the patient as wells as the family members of the patients
have the right to know about the treatments that the patient is going to receive. They have the
right to know about all the risks and the benefits associated with the treatment but on the given
case study, the family members of the patient were not described about the treatment procedures.
So in the given case study, this principle was thus not followed (Kangasniemi, Pakkanen and
Korhonen 2015).