Treatment Resistant Depression: Ethical and Legal Considerations in Healthcare Organizations

Treatment Resistant Depression
TRD

Table of Content
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................1
PART 1........................................................................................................................................1
PART 2........................................................................................................................................2
PART 3........................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

DISCUSSION
PART 1
In healthcare organization, having ethical and legal needs are quite essential as it can
make healthcare workers or nurses to acknowledge well-being care dilemmas, ability to make
positive decisions that are specifically based on the values while keeping among legislations that
mainly regulate them (Malhi and et. al., 2018). As per my view, there are some things that goes
against legal and ethical needs in care organization such as lack of autonomy and beneficence
(Elder, 2018). These such principles are important for nurses while providing effective care and
here these all are not followed properly. In this, autonomy is generally defined as right of every
patient to make their own decisions and in the case scenario, there is no principles follow in case
of Mr. R. Nurses or care professional does not consult any treatment that they are actually
providing to Mr. R. and this can significantly affect him while providing a experimental
treatment of DBS to patient. It is quite necessary to consult of treatment such as DBS with
patients and family so that they can get to know about what type of treatment they are providing
to patient and what are the outcomes. Care professionals and nurses does not aware his family
about the care treatment and its side effects and ultimately it is against the policies and regulation
of healthcare organization. It is a right of every patient to know about particular treatment that
care givers are providing to them. In addition, there is also a breach of regulation or principle
such as beneficence. In this, the care provider must provide treatment to patients which are in
favour of their health (Conroy et. al., 2021).
As per my view, I have observed that there is no effective consent form the patient or his
family which includes avoidance of the principle of ethics which includes the non-maleficence
and have high impact and create the high depression level. I observed that there is also various
concern which was not taken during the treatment and cause various difficulty in dealing with
patient situation (Banks, 2018). I also feel that healthcare providers were performing some
experiment to treat the depression through different new techniques which lead to create the
consequences and Mr. R is not feeling good and create worsening in his health. There is the
medical concerned which should have taken in care and needed to get better and effective
healthcare services which have better response to take care about the ethical concern. I also
observed that due to worsening of Mr. R health it includes the practice problem which also
enhance the side effect that can lead to create high impact on the delivery of care and support to
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