Hospital policy on influenza immunization

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Hospital policy on influenza immunization
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Introduction
Healthcare principles is considered as an umbrella word that denotes to the province
of practical ethics, related with the comprehensive collection of decision-making
surroundings that initiate in social care and health sector. Additionally, medical ethics
incorporates the area of moral philosophies namely, autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence
and justice (Runciman, Merry & Walton, 2017). This study will demonstrate the ethical
problems that are associated with the case scenario on hospital program related to influenza
immunization.
Case study
A counselling has been allotted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) associated to the rigorousness of flu outburst in the forthcoming months, which has
lead to the approval of compulsory influenza vaccination that must be delivered to every
medical staff, volunteers and employees. This lead to the development of rule, which stated
that employees are not allowed to continue their work if they are not vaccinated, excluding
circumstances if they are oversensitive and they have any spiritual prohibition in
contradiction of vaccination. Though, the condition has lead in amalgamation of the staff
members in nursing experts who contemplate counselling as a breach on self-determination
and constitutional rights of the staffs. An investigation of the presented case scenario
recommends that the moral standard of self-sufficiency is dishonored since self-sufficiency
includes the moral belief and right of a person in relative to self-willpower of individual
healthcare (Martakis et al., 2019).
It could be attributed to the circumstance that proposing a single approval in the
method of a therapy for a precise medical illness (flu outbreak), effects in paternalistic act,
thus signifying failure in regard to the ethical moralities of the staffs about self-sufficient

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health-associated decision-building (Gavazzi, 2019). It can also result in conflicting
circumstances since the workers of the organization could implement their ethical moralities
for guarding themselves by decreasing vaccination (Hess et al., 2015). Alike situations was
encountered in established countries such as United Kingdome, where numerous parents
exhibit opposition to obligatory immunization of their kids against mumps, measles and
rubella (McIntosh et al., 2016). Additionally, healthcare experts, principally nursing
professionals and doctors are educated with the conception of beneficence and their principle
aim should emphasis on performing for the advantage of the broader population (Richardson
& Weaver, 2016). Therefore, recommendation distributed by the leader is in harmony to the
standard of beneficence owed to the circumstance that the well-being intervention, grounded
on immunization will be approved for protecting the public health.
On examining the case scenario, the moral belief of non-maleficence could be related
since it includes the action of conducting no injury to other individual. Additionally, the
advantage of immunizing healthcare staffs in contradiction of influenza is not verified to
inferior spread of flu virus within the wider populace. It was noted by the investigators that
limited indication is present concerning the possible benefits of the healthcare employee
immunization (Dubov & Phung, 2015). It was noticed that flu administration leads to adverse
health effects like prompt heartbeat, wheezing, trouble in breathing, hypersensitive responses,
swelling round the eyes or mouth and dizziness (Smith et al., 2017). Therefore, making
immunization compulsory for the staffs might affect them and result in side effects that will
lead to desecration of safety and health. However, considering the circumstance that
healthcare employees are accountable towards the broader population in order to prevent
pathogen transmission, which can result in contamination and can be resisted under moral
enforced towards health care employees to obtain influenza vaccination to reduce the risk of
harm.