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Ethical Conflict Regarding Nurse's Code and a Patient's 'Right to Die'

In eight pages this essay discusses efforts to reconcile euthanasia and the Nurse's Code in a consideration of the ethics nonmalef...

The Politics and Metaphysics of Thomas Hobbes

same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...

Two Articles Compared Regarding Business Ethics

business ethics. The first, they maintain, was launched in the defense industry during the 1980s, when reports of military contrac...

Nursing and the Value of Honesty

drugs and to administer those drugs in a manner that is beneficial to our patients as well as being put into a positions where we ...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Explaining DNRs

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Three Essays on Philosophy and Ethics

made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...

Medication and Cultures

This research paper describes how health beliefs and cultural views of medication influence health behaviors. Three pages in lengt...

The Concept of 'Freedom' of Choice as Perceived by Epictetus, Epicurus, and Aristotle

be regarded as involuntary because it is not externally rooted in another person; but it is irrational and therefore not represent...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

Morals, Beliefs, and Ethics

Ethics is concerned with how a moral person should behave, whereas values are the inner judgments that determine how a person actu...

Feminist Social Ethic and the Life of Jane Addams

This paper addresses the beliefs and social ethics of feminist Jane Addams. The author discusses Addams' various social and polit...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

How We Frame Our Ethical Guidelines

Our values, beliefs, and ethics underpin the way that we regard our world, we use them to forge our philosophical outlooks....

New Nurses Survival Guide

2008, p. 208). The purpose of the study designed by Sorensen and Yankech (2008) was to investigate whether a "research-based, th...

Nursing Management/Retention Issues

that not only were nurses retained but that everyone on staff is motivated to be actively engaged and involved in the work environ...

Humanistic Leadership & Nursing Unions

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

Conceptual, Philosophical, Legal And Ethical Foundations And Processes Inherent To Professional Nursing Practice

there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday thr...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

Peplau and Orem/Core Concepts

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

Following Watson's Example/Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Stimulus for developing of the students personal philosophy The process of nursing education exposes students to diverse clinical...

Elements of Psychiatric Nursing Practice

who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...

The Ethics of Belief by W.K. Clifford

the only way to arrive at this point, he seems to be saying, is to carefully examine anything that one believes with the yardstick...

Nursing's Personal Code of Ethics

on the following (Nursingworld.org, 2004). * Human dignity * Commitment to the patient * Protection of the patients privacy and co...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

3 Elements of Psychiatric Nursing

cope with ethical situations primarily from experience and only minimally from formal education, which leaves novice nurses with "...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...