Biomedical Ethics

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Biomedical Ethics

Textbook:Health care ethics. Third edition. Jones & Bartlett

ISBN: 978-1-4496-6535-7

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a.Read The chapter 1: pages 3 to 45 and answer questions 1,2,3,4 in your textbook page 36

b.Read The chapter 2: pages 47 to 66 and answer questions 1,2,3,4 in your textbook page 62

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Running Head: BIOMEDICAL ETHICS

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Chapter 1:
Why should you have a foundation in ethics if you are involved in health care? Are you not
already a good person?
Ethics are important and should be maintained by health workers. Informed consent and
confidentially are some of the considerations in the ethical values that matter in the life of a health
worker. The foundations towards ethics are based on the need to provide efficient services in the
field of health and to avoid things that may expose the patients to threats while being taken care
of in the institution. The ethical standards and values have been established that help in monitoring
the performance of the health workers (Jones & Bartlett, 2012)
Some of the ethical values considered include beneficence, autonomy, veracity, justice,
and nonmaleficence. Beneficence is doing a procedure to a client with the aim of a positive effect
on the patient. Everything done should be beneficial to the patient. Veracity is being truthful in the
findings that are observed and even on the diagnosis. Telling the truth about the patient’s condition
is necessary for appropriate interventions. Autonomy is the state of being free to make personal
decisions on actions to take for a given situation of a client. This also means making informed
choices (Chadwick & Gallagher, 2016).
Justice means being fair and avoid discrimination of patients. The last among the ethics
here is nonmaleficence which means to avoid causing injuries to the patients. The ethics are
essential in facilities in our place of care provision and considering me; I think myself am a good
person and can maintain the ethical values in the profession always to provide care of the required
standards (Jones & Bartlett, 2012)
How can you use the tenets of natural law in your practice in health care?

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The principle of natural law explains how to solve the dilemmas in ethics that need to be
addressed. It is used in solving situations and recognizes moral concepts and legal concepts in the
choices of life. Making perfect choices is not easy, but priorities must be established to help explain
a given situation at hand and different diagnoses that were not detected earlier on examination of
the patient extensively (Jones & Bartlett, 2012)
In the facilities, numerous cases that need critical thinking and are ensured by care
providers to make decisions that will assist in managing...


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