Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatric Emergency Care
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Running head: LAW AND ETHICS Law and EthicsName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1LAW AND ETHICSTable of ContentsQuestion 1........................................................................................................................................1Part A...........................................................................................................................................1Part B...........................................................................................................................................2Question 2........................................................................................................................................3Question 3........................................................................................................................................5Question 4........................................................................................................................................7Part A...........................................................................................................................................7Part B...........................................................................................................................................8Reference.........................................................................................................................................9
2LAW AND ETHICSQuestion 1Part AA.The Health Services Amendment (Paramedic Qualifications) Regulation 2015 wasintroduced under the Health Services Act 1997. This act helps and protects the paramedics.It is a new legislation in New South Wales for paramedics. The paramedics must have the aBachelor of Para medicine or a Graduate Diploma of Para medicine conferred by a universityor must have a nationally-recognized Diploma of Para medicine issued by a registeredtraining organization. This legislation has help to carry out a protection to the paramedics holders inemployment and any misrepresentation in their industry. However, in recently the newlegislation has focused on the establishment through the Paramedic Registered Board. B.According to the paramedic holders sometimes face difficulties while they are on theirduty. Through the new registration under Paramedic Registered Board, the paramedics areprotected from any legal obligations. Sometimes the paramedics’ beach their duty whiles theyare providing services and do the negligence in their duty of care. Then the paramedicpractitioner can face several legal issues. The ambulance service itself a duty of care service,where negligence never accepted. So the person who is required the service, must not breachedthe tasks (Bradley, Townsend & Eburn 2015).
3LAW AND ETHICSAll individuals have fundamental legal and ethical rights in determining what happens totheir own bodies – the principle of autonomy. To respect a patient’s autonomy the paramedic hasto obtain valid consent in the majority of healthcare encounters. Failure to do so may result in anaccusation of assault or battery. Part B A.According to the case study, Lachen was discriminated in his workplace from another co-worker which is unlawful as per the sexual orientation. Here the Byron has discriminated by thegender identity to Lachen. Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) gives the provision of unlawfuldiscrimination in the work place. The Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth)protects those people who are discriminated in their work place from their co-workers or by anyindividuals. Byron must not do such activities towards his co-worker or influenced other to doso.B.sAccording to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) givesthe provision of protect the employees in their work place from the discrimination. According tothe case study, Byron not only discriminated his co-worker Lachan for being a transgender butalso influenced other to disturbed him. He harassed by vernal abuse and through emails andcalls. Here, it can be stated that Lachan can take legal actions against Byron and other co-workers for discriminated him in the workplace which is a illegal activity.
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