Ethics, Law and Health Care

Ethics, Law and Health Care 1
Running Head: Ethics, Law & Health Care
Ethics, Law and Health Care

Ethics, Law and Health Care 2
Table of Contents
Identified issues & collected Information....................................................................................................3
Parties that are involved in this case........................................................................................................3
Issues.......................................................................................................................................................3
Evaluate the issue........................................................................................................................................3
a) Code of Ethics.................................................................................................................................3
b) Ethical Principles.............................................................................................................................4
c) Legal/Law issues.............................................................................................................................5
3. Action......................................................................................................................................................5
Options for the steps for action................................................................................................................6
4. Implementation........................................................................................................................................6
5. Assess Outcomes.....................................................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................8

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Identified issues & collected Information
Parties that are involved in this case- In this case, different parties are involved. These parties
are Stella, Victoria, boyfriend of Stella and aunt of Stella. Here, Stella is a patient and Victoria is
doctor.
Issues-
Issue 1- Stella has no desire for delivery of her child. So, Stella is requesting the doctor to abort
the child.
Issue 2- Stella wants to discover the information of abortion from her aunt as she is pregnant by
her boyfriend. The aunt of Stella does not know about this situation.
Evaluate the issue
a) Code of Ethics
The above issues are containing the code of ethics. The code of ethics is discussed as below:
In professional manner, the major responsibility of the nurses is to provide excellent care
services. The nursing professionals are promoting the environment in which the human rights,
values, family customs and the community can be respected (Epstein & Turner, 2015). In this
regard, Victoria has a need to take a legitimate decision to provide better care services to Stella
as she is not mature or adult and not able to born a child. Mainly the care providers demonstrate
respectfulness, compassion, trustworthiness and integrity for their patients. The care providers
require taking care of integrity and safety of the patient (Lachman, Swanson, & Winland-Brown,
2015). In this concern, the nurses are responsible to provide appropriate and better care services
for the patients in possible manner (Porta, 2018).
Morris, & Nott (2018) depicted that the nurses or care providers share their responsibilities of
imitating and supporting action to meet the need of better health in the community. Individual
responsibilities and accountabilities are carried out by the nursing staff. In this concern, the care
providers also require to follow the accurate process of providing excellent treatment or care
services for the patients in respectful manner.
VS1(2) “Nurses are very active in contributing in diminishing the associated harms to all
individuals. The nursing staffs are associated to the potential unethical or illegal.”
VS5(2) “The nurses have good training in entire circumstances to assist the role of friends,
family members, partners and others in making decision.”

Ethics and Law

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
NARRATIVE TWO........................................................................................................................3
Introduction.................................................................................................................................3
Discussion...................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................4
NARRATIVE FIVE.........................................................................................................................4
Introduction.................................................................................................................................4
Discussion...................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................5
NARRATIVE THREE.....................................................................................................................5
Introduction.................................................................................................................................5
Discussion...................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Ethics is a science of the human conduct which consist of principles and guidelines which
inform the people as to how to behave and live in a particular situation. Law on other side is the
set of regulations and rules which creates the legal binding effect and obliged everyone to follow
it but ethics are non-binding (Ekmekci and Arda, 2020). This report shall deal with three
narratives which relates to legal and ethical considerations of them.
NARRATIVE TWO
Introduction
The policy and laws mandates the anonymity of the deceased donation which includes
disclosure of the identity and facilitation of the direct contract between the families and
recipients of donor. The connection between the donor and the receipt is hard as per the policy
prevailing in Australia but many community groups have begun advocating regarding change in
policy in order to built connection between families ad recipients easier.
Discussion
The ethical issue pertaining in this scenario includes the following-
 There must be privacy being maintained regarding the identity of the donor families and
protection must be given to their privacy and identity, especially regrading use of social
media. If the privacy of donor is breached, there may be consequences that the donor
family may not be comfortable in revealing their identity.
 When there is direct contact between the donor family and recipient there is unwanted
loss of privacy and more lack of protection, support and control for the mental health due
to risk of the direct contract. This may affect their mental peace and health.
 It is in the form of gratitude and commendation that the family of donor ask for the
privacy in order to prevent the constant reminder of the deceased family member. This
may result in fear of suffering harassment from the point of donor's family which may
lead in preference of not donating (Dean, 2021).
Legal framework
The laws which govern the confidentiality and privacy of the healthcare information
means that identify of deceased donor, its family members and the transplant recipient must only
be disclosed when there is consent of family and recipient. In Australia, the disclosure of identity