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Leadership ManagementProfessional DevelopmentHealthcare and Research
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Running head: TAKING A STAND 1Taking a StandStudent’s nameInstitutional affiliation
TAKING A STAND 2Taking a StandIntroductionIn human life and work environment, issues of law, ethics, and morals are inevitable. These are evident when people face questions regarding the morality of the justice system in addressing foreign policy, clinical technologies in prolonging human life, and the rights of vulnerable members of the society. These issues have defined the headlines in the daily newspapers and bulletins. In some instances, these cases have compromised the jobs of many individuals. According to various studies, addressing the moral and ethical challenges has provedchallenging and complex (Downey, Parslow, & Smart, 2011). Despite the many questions revolving around these issues, one thing is clear that an intensive analysis and incorporating the opinions of stakeholders should be considered. Different scholars have defined ethics as a systemthat embraces moral principles meant to guide the behaviors of individuals (Woods, 2014). Ethics deals with disciplines that emphasize bad or good behaviors but stresses the moral obligation and duty. Ethics encompasses principle systems which can change one’s past decisions, actions, or thoughts (Downey et al., 2011). Besides, Meyer and O’Brien-Pallas (2010) viewed it as the best measure that is essential in guiding people actions and protecting society. For anyone to make ethical decisions in any environment, it is critical for the person to have relevant knowledge regarding the ethical frameworks and principles. As such, the individual can use a leadership style that is beyond trial and errors as it emphasizes on the model founded on decision-making. Without a doubt, many organizations have established moral, ethical, and legal standards to prevent and control ethical issues. Through this paper, it would be prudent to describe the ethical dilemma evident in a healthcare environment, introduce the conceptual framework regarding the
TAKING A STAND 3ethical construct of ethics, consider the leadership style as determined by the self-assessment method thus justify the effectiveness of the style in addressing the ethical issue.Conceptual FrameworkIn the healthcare career, especially the nurse, one can never avoid facing multiple dilemmas. As a nurse, one always experience more dilemma than he/she would admit. To this effect, the nurse would face difficult situation to make decisions which must demonstrate the outcomes of patients, with whom the nurse interacts with. Without a doubt, some critical ethical dilemmas nurses experience is evident in the mental health care. In these situations, the nurse hasto make difficult decisions on privacy and confidentiality, compulsory treatment and patient independence, the mental illness definition, and the addiction’s moral dimensions. The ethical framework guides people to find solutions to the ethical dilemma (Downey et al., 2011). The managers use these ethical frameworks to clarify personal beliefs and values relevant to solving the problem. According to Meyer and O’Brien-Pallas (2010), the duty-based reasoning, intuitionism, utilitarianism, and rights-based reasoning are important frameworks used in solvingethical problems.The utilitarian approach compels the nurses to apply the method that produces the least distress and pain because an individual’s action would be viewed as bad or good based on the level of pain or pleasure. This approach is used in making ethical decisions where the consequences concern many people. The duty-based reasoning emphasizes on the personal intention and will in making the ethical decision. In this approach, people view good actions based on the intention of performing them not consequences. A nurse would perform the function because he/she has the obligation to perform the work.Moral dilemma
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