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Modern Life Issues and Theories of Morality

In ten pages this report discusses how moral theories address contemporary life issues with such ethical concepts as virtue, care,...

Physician Assisted Suicide and Business Ethics

In five pages business ethics are examined within the context of the health care sphere with partial ethical resolution offered in...

Barriers to Intimate Care

profession barrier that gives the confidence in the carers, so that the person being cared for feels that they are safe, both phys...

Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice

Gilligan summarizes this by saying that male morality has a "justice orientation", and that female morality has a "responsibility ...

Ethical Considerations Regarding Terminal Illness and Palliative Care

one, we become constantly reacquainted with the subject. The way that we deal with death varies on both an individual and a colle...

Reform and Ethics As They Relate to Nursing Home Care

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

Managed Care Research and Ethical Issues

majority group in the United States. When considering other population groups, the disparities are even greater. The purpose her...

Health Care Delivery and Various Moral, Philosophical, and Ethical Issues

ethical, philosophical, and moral issues that characterize the one delivery mechanism also characterize the other. A particular c...

Health Care and End of Life Decisions

become a prominent question in the care of patients. Society and medical practitioners continually face many dilemmas at the end ...

Health Care Industry and Medication Errors

potential for depression. It stands to reason, therefore, that if nurses in critical care units are experiencing higher rates of ...

Ethics and the Biggest Challenges Confronting Wal Mart

the Economist states the following: "The biggest of these is a class action seeking damages on behalf of 1.6m past and current fem...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

Rationing of Health Care and Moral Impacts

paired with a continually expanding population have introduced others. A degradation of the nursing/patient relationship, concern...

Ethical Implications of Shortages in Nursing

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

Euthanasia and Opposition to Its Practice

The arguments in support of euthanasia center around quality of life issues, pain and suffering, and the common good (Kowalski, 19...

Rationing Health Care and Ethics

where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...

The Impact of Censorship on Art in South Park's "Episode 201"

cartoon South Park has become infamous due to the circumstances surrounding its censorship. The episode was quite heavily censored...

Treatment and Jehovah's Witnesses, An Ethical Dilemma

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

Health Care, 3D Printing

This paper pertains to 3D printing. The writer describes what it is, relevant ethical and legal issues, and applications in health...

Freud's "Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria"

(1963) is Freuds account of the case of Ida Bauer, whose father brought to Freud seeking "cure" for her willful refusal to assist ...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

U.S. Health Care System

care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...

Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

The Ethical Responsibilities of Health Care Organizations

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...

The Major Problems Facing the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

Health Care and Ethical Decision Making

Health ("Right", 2011). From an ethical perspective, one might also invoke the Kantian deontological theory of ethics to explore w...

Assessment of a Bundle of Healthcare Services for Patients with Dementia

why this population may be seen as particularly vulnerable. The paper will then look in detail at the service offered, and then co...

Global Health Care Issues

In twenty pages this paper examines international health care issues in an assessment of problems including planning regulations, ...

Elderly Care in a Nursing Home v. At Home

In seven pages caring for the elderly is considered through two options with home health care oftentimes presenting more advantage...