Ethical Dilemma Question
Is it ethical to act on the patient’s request of a 41-year-old woman with advanced breast cancer, who has been developmentally delayed since birth, for no further cancer treatment? – Yes, I think it is ethical
The student must pick a position and be able to defend it. Use “How to solve an ethical dilemma”.
Project’s requirements
- The student will read the case study and identify the ethical dilemma.
- Ethical decisions are often trade-offs between Utility, Rights, and Justice.
- Incorporate an ethical framework to support your decision (I would like to use a rights-based framework)
- Nurse Practitioners must learn to identify and address the ethical division in an established framework.
- It should be a 4-5 pages long; APA style.
- Must include 4-5 references not more than 5 years old.
- This paper is your opinion based on a theoretical model.
The benefits of utilizing an establish framework to solve an ethical dilemma are:
- Efficiency-Decisions can be made more quickly
- Consistency-results in more systematic outputs
- Payback-builds emotional goodwill with your constituents
- Self-respect -you feel good about yourself after you made your decision
Step in Solving an Ethical dilemmas:
The ethical dilemma paperwork must contain the steps you utilized in solving the ethical dilemma. The steps are:
- Know your values
- Select a model: This is an example. You can use other models
- Egoism-Act is moral if it promotes your best long – term interest
- Utilitarianism-An act is moral if it produces the great ratio of good to evil for everyone
- Situational- A rigid interpretation of rules and laws can be set aside if a greater good or lesser evil is served by doing so (I would like to use this one)
- Golden rule: An act is moral if you treat others the way you would like to be treated
- Solve the ethical problems
