Ethics, Ethical Frameworks and Legislation in Healthcare: A Case Study of Makayla Sault

Case study

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Ethics is a well-founded standard of right or wrong which mainly prescribe that what is
human have ought to do mainly in term of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness as well
as specific virtues. It is basically subdivided into normative ethics, meta ethics as well as applied
ethics. The ethics in health-care may promotes consideration values in the prioritization as well
as justification action by health care professional, researchers as well as the policymakers which
have impact on the health or well-being of patients, families as well as communities. It is very
important to maintain ethics within the health-care professions in order to make good judgements
or decision dependent on the values while holding within the laws which govern them. There are
basically four principles of ethics are maintained in healthcare system such as autonomy, non-
maleficence, beneficence as well as justice. These are extremely influential principles in the field
of medical ethics. In order to hold the ethics, practice the ethical framework are conducted in
medical fields. The frameworks perspectives are useful for reasoning as what course of action
may provide to get the most moral outcomes. The ethical study has provided that there are many
principles which can be aided while ethical decision making. There are basically five ethical
frameworks such as virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism, rights-based ethics as well as care-
based ethics. The legislation plays a very important role in the healthcare sector. The healthcare
legislation may provide a rule, regulation as well as the policies which may keep the patient care
delivery persistent across the organisation. The project report discussed about the case study of
11-year-old girl who was suffering from lymphoblastic leukaemia. The essay report discussed
the detail knowledge about the principles of ethics, ethical frameworks as well as the legislation
related to the case study as per the point of view of health-care profession.
MAIN BODY
There is a case study as a health care profession remembered which is related to 11 year
old girl whose name is Makayla Sault who was declined chemotherapy treatment as she stated
that the chemotherapy is killing her body and she cannot able to take the therapy any more. The
Makayla’s story compels many health care professions in order to reflect the harsh ethical rights
which are surrounding the issues of health life as well as death of many people due to those
ethics. The last year, Makayla was beginning her chemotherapy in order to treat her acute
lymphoblastic leukaemia. But after twelve weeks, her family decided to stop chemotherapy
treatment and want to pursue the traditional treatment as an alternative of chemotherapy. This
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