Nursing Ethical Case Study
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Added on 2021-06-17
Nursing Ethical Case Study
Added on 2021-06-17
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NURSING ETHICAL CASE2Nursing Ethical CaseEthical Issues RaisedThe case study presents a myriad of ethical issues concerning the handling and treatment issues in the case. Amos a high school student in the same school, level, and year underwent discriminative treatment based on the location he resided in despite being a student in the same school to the students that received treatment. Some of the students with a similar illness were admitted at the facility whose increase led to the insufficiency of the medical supplies thus leading to the limiting of the patients up for treatment. Amos was denied medical services on the point that he was not a boarding within the facility of the school which led to his subsequent suffering and eventual death. The case raises serious ethical challenges on the side of the medicalprofessionals who are bound by ethical standards not to discriminate patients while dispensing their duties. Basic Principles of Medical EthicsThe medical ethics ride on the four basic principles such as autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice all related toward the issues of fairness, respect, and honesty. The principle of justice dictates that professionals should try and be as fair as possible whenever dispensing treatment to patients and handling medical resources related to patient care (Berglund, 2012). In this respect, one should be able to justify their actions in every situation.Amos suffered a victim of lack of justice, a principle expected to be observed and kept close to the heart of medical professionals. The aspect of fair treatment and proper use of resources did not occur thus leaving Amos, a student in the same school to suffer from cholera leading to his death. The medical professional ought to have given him medication despite his residence in a
NURSING ETHICAL CASE3mutually exclusive location. Fair treatment calls for handling patients care and concerns in the same manner towards yielding superior care for individuals (Ozolins & Grainger, 2015). Non-maleficence principle on the other hand calls for no harm to patients as a bedrock of medical ethics. Further, the principle states that in all situations, health workers ought to strive tocause little or no harm to patients and use the right means to handling patients towards bettering their experience. However, the principle remained in violation in the case of Amos who was out rightly denied medication on the basis of not residing in the same boarding facility as the rest of the students (Barret, Ortmann, Dawson, Saenz, Reis & Bolan, 2016). First, the patient suffered from cholera due to exposure in the same environment as the rest of the students. In such a situation, he was entitled treatment accorded to the rest despite the difference in location of residence. The denial and subjection to no medical in itself is a harm added on top of the pain from the cholera outbreak that affected him. Consequently, it led to the dehydration, suffering, and eventual death of Amos on the way home to seek assistance from the family. The act was a violation of the principle which led to increased harm on the patient.Beneficence principle The principle states that health professionals must strive to provide and improve patient’shealth and do good to patients in every situation. The principle was largely violated in the case where Amos did not have the chance for improvement of his health at the facility. Instead, he was denied the slightest medication due to the increased number of patients (Banks & Gallagher, 2009). At least, he deserved to be treated and given a first aid observance instead of being turned away as a student not residing within the school’s boarding facility. The act denied proper health to the patient leading to a complicated situation.
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