Civil Law Essay: Analysis of Safe Nursing Ratios and Organ Donation

This essay provides a civil law analysis of two key healthcare issues: safe nursing ratios and ethical considerations surrounding organ donation. It discusses the implementation of safe nursing ratios, highlighting the potential for improved patient care and nurse satisfaction while also addressing the economic implications and questioning whether reduced ratios definitively enhance care quality. The essay also explores the ethical dimensions of organ donation, particularly regarding the use of the Kingdon model for candidate referral, arguing that while organ donation is a lifesaving act, individual autonomy and the avoidance of external pressure are paramount. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of balancing patient safety and ethical considerations within the framework of civil law. Desklib offers a platform to access this essay and numerous other resources for students.

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The safe nursing ratio is definitely intended for improved care as well as the satisfaction
of the nurses. It is also evident that by means of implementing this change, the number of
casualties can also be reduced. However, as an impact of this implementation, the operating cost
would increase considerably. Naturally the cost at which the patients could avail service
previously would not be the same now. Although nursing care was improved as an impact of this
implementation, however the way in which the nursing cost could be kept low for the patients,
was not discussed or even decided. This is worth considering since not all patients came for
treatment from same economic backgrounds. This is one important area of lacking in this
decision undertaken. Along with providing safest care to the patients it is also advisable that the
nursing authority pay attention to the aspects that can help maximum number of people to avail
nursing care under their concern.
Besides there is no surety of the fact that the reduction in the nurse to patient ratio,
would definitely enhance the quality of the patient care that is provided since there are all the
other factors like the experience and expertise of the doctors as well as nurses who are treating
the patients and finally the ambience under which the treatment is done, which determines the
actual quality of treatment but the patient would get.
There is another question that can be raised regarding the implementation of the Kingdon
model for referring of potential candidates for the purpose of donation of organs. I feel that
pursuing the candidates for donation of organ is definitely a lifesaving act. However from an
ethical point of view, whether a person would donate his or her organs or not, is absolutely an
individual and discrete decision of himself or herself and there should not be an external
influence working on him or her. It is an act of own and innate nobility. At best a person can be

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associated with the benefits of organ donation passively, but not probed or forced in any way to
donate organs after death.
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