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Contact a health care professional and arrange to conduct an interview. Use the interview to understand the ethical perspective of the health care professional regarding the following:
- How does the health care professional define ethical challenges?
- How does the health care professional handle ethical challenges?
Write a 1,250-1,500 word paper based on the interview in which you address the following:
- Explain the application of ethics in the health care environment of the interviewee.
- Compare and contrast the interviewee's answers with what you have learned in this course.
- Include additional resources that support, reinforce, or even challenge your findings and observations.
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Application of Medical Ethics - Outline
Thesis statement: This paper is a discussion of the application of ethics to the patients
who require neonatal care and the challenges facing the healthcare providers.
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Introduction
Application of Medical Ethics in the Neonatal Care Unit
Conclusion
Running head: APPLICATION OF MEDICAL ETHICS
Application of Medical Ethics
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Application of Medical Ethics
Introduction
Ethics in health care involves the examining a particular problem, a clinical case, and
gathering facts and using logic to come up with the best course of action to take, some of these
issues are straight-forward which one has to determine whether the issue is right or wrong.
However, in some cases, making a decision can be challenging, especially if it involves two
“rights” that conflict with each other (Sarah Mohammad, 2014). This problem may result due to
conflicting views from the patient part and the doctor’s perspective. This paper is a discussion of
the application of ethics to the patients who require neonatal care and the challenges facing the
healthcare providers.
Application of Medical Ethics in the Neonatal Care Unit
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a specialized facility which provides intensive
care to newborn babies who require intense medical attention. The facility offers these services
by combining both advanced technologies available and qualified health care professionals to
provide services to the young and very delicate patients (Rostas, 2018). NICU also has
intermediate areas which handle babies who may not be sick but do require specialized care from
the professionals. Most babies who are usually admitted to NICU are premature and probably
born before attaining 37 weeks of pregnancy. They also have low birth weight, and others may
possess a medical condition the needs specialized treatment. From the class work, it was evident
that medical ethics involves four principles, which include autonomy, beneficence,
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