MEDRADSC 3DH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nightingale Pledge, Nursing Ethics, Medical Ethics
10 Jun 2020
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Ethics is concerned with moral principles, values & standards of conduct. The field of health & hc raises numerous ethical concerns, related to, for example, health care delivery, professional integrity, data handling, use of human subjects in research, & the application of new techniques, such as gene manipulation. The patient, their family, & the hc team are often faced with challenging scenarios in which there are no apparent right answers. When confronted by a life-limiting diagnosis, most patients reflexively utter the words, but i want to live . While life prolongation may be apart of a patient"s initial goals of care, there comes a tipping point where it becomes iterative to. This is a natural reaction when confronted with one"s mortality consider that state of one"s qol. This refers to one"s well being which includes all the aspects of life that make life meaningful to that person. Only the patient can decide what is an acceptable qol of themselves.
