...September 2013 3 Dilemmas One of the most controversial decisions in America history, the moral dilemma of President Truman had to face during the War World II, whether invasion or the bomb, a problem in intelligent choice and a matter of life and death. Truman ordered US planes to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An argument supporting his decision would be that it saved many lives and ended the war. However an invasion of Japan would have been very costly and both sides would have had more losses. An argument against his decision would be that it was wrong to directly target civilians. It also caused long-term damage as many people developed cancer and other illnesses from the radiation left by the atomic bomb. Whether to use the atom bomb on Japan to end the 3 and a half year war. He used it, and it was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Japanese citizens and soldiers. But it did force the Japanese to surrender once and for all. I honestly think this was the wrong way to end the conflict; war is never the answered. Another ethical dilemma that attracts my attention is a situation in which a person is faced with two choices which conflict with their ethical system. Per example in your ethical system stealing is always wrong. Also letting one's family die from starvation is always wrong. A person in such a situation would be forced to commit one wrong to avoid committing another wrong. When it comes to an ethical dilemma a choice must be...
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...Running Head: WORKPLACE ETHICIAL DILEMMA Professional Workplace Dilemma Shamira Tarkhan GEN/480 - INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE COURSE 6/6/2011 SHARI L. LANE, MBA University of Phoenix Intro What is an Ethical Dilemma? According to Flamand, 1999-2011, “an ethical dilemma is situations were in moral precepts or ethical obligations conflict in such a way as to make any possible resolution to the dilemma morally intolerable”(para.1). “In other words, an ethical dilemma is any situation in which guiding moral principles cannot determine which of course an action that is right or wrong”( Flamand, 1999-2011, para.1). Dilemmas in the work force are quite common and require some sort of ethical explanation. Both employees and employers have to face dilemmas in any type of undersized or large organization. Some conflicts are bond to rise at even given moment because of gender, age, education, race, religion, and employment statues. The most common dilemmas I have experienced at work include honesty, power, loyalty, authority, and confidentiality. The Experience/Analyze Sometimes making a right decision can be difficult because as I think about my personal values and what they mean to me. Do I choose to do something unethical or do I use what I believe in and what I think is right so solve the dilemma. There was a situation with my mother and I believe it was back in 2002 where she had so many high hopes and dreams for me until it all came crashing down (at that moment)...
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...Running head: ANALYSIS OF ETHICAL DILEMMA Analysis of Ethical Dilemma Deanna Romain Grand Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care NRS 437V Jennifer Wood August 28, 2011 Analysis of Ethical Dilemma Is gender selection of a fetus ethical? With new advances in reproductive technology, parents can not only find out if their embryo has genetic abnormalities, they can also find out the gender of their embryo. The ethical dilemma is whether or not one should be able to choose their child’s gender before implantation. Some compare this method of gender selection to human cloning. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is the testing of the chromosomes of the embryo to determine genetic abnormalities and gender prior to in-vitro fertilization (IVF). In the United States, gender selection by PGD is considered a violation of ethical practices for non-medical purposes (Akchurin, n.d.) CNN.com reported recently that a new blood test has been discovered which can determine the sex of a fetus as early as seven weeks gestation. This achievement was reported in the Journal of American Medical Association in August. This technology is already starting ethical debates fearing parents will use this technology for sex determination and abort healthy fetuses (Ravitsky, 2011). This new technology could also be beneficial in determining gender if their child is at risk for a sex-linked disease such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy or hemophilia. In China and India, there...
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...Applying an Ethical Theory Moral or Ethical dilemmas are an everyday occurrence in our society. The situations present two options as solutions from which one is expected to choose. There is an expectation though that one will choose the option that is considered moral. Ethical questions or problems face every human being at some point in life. One such moral question is; “is it right for women to have abortions”. Abortion has been a major cause of controversy all around the world, with people having different views on whether abortion is good or bad based on their moral beliefs. The main issue that surrounds this ethical dilemma is whether the fetus should have rights to life. Another issue is whether there is justification for a woman to perform abortion based on the rights to her body considering the fetus also has rights to life (Tännsjö, 2008). The deontological theory is not in support of abortion; the objection though, is that women also have rights over their bodies. Discussion Deontological ethics is a moral theory that is in line with common sense intuitions, the scriptures, and natural moral duties or rules. The theory mainly focuses on compliance with moral duties or rules. The main principles of the theory include a task should be carried out for the sake of the obligation. For instance, there is a duty not to do certain things such as murder, lie or break promises since these acts are considered to be wrong. The expected consequences define what the duty is...
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...Ethical Decision Making Process: The Case Study of Gentry As counselors, we are responsible for promoting the mental, emotional and physical well-being of our clients. Sometime promoting the welfare of clients is not as simplistic and straightforward as it is in textbooks. There will be times when we, as counselors, face the challenge that is an ethical dilemma. When deciding how to manage these types of situations there are ethical, legal and moral considerations. The American Counseling Association has established the ethical guidelines for counselors. The legal obligations counselors must adhere to are established by the federal government and state legislation. Moral principles that counselors reflect upon are autonomy, nonmaleficence,...
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...individual and society. “ (Ethics, 2014) It is a collection of concepts acquired from philosophies, cultures, and religions. Some of these ethical concepts include the principals of autonomy, beneficence and social justice. Ethics provide a moral pathway in which individuals pick to find their way out of difficult issues. Individuals have many different derived concepts, or moral pathways, controversies that cause ethical dilemmas can become apparent. Such dilemmas can be seen in the health care delivery system of the United States and the policies that are enforced within it. One ethical argument in particular that poses issues and controversy regards society having the responsibility to provide or fund insurance that covers the cost of contraceptives when it is against the individual’s personal or religious beliefs. Ethical Dilemma/ Policy Issue: The term “conscientious objection” is the refusal to perform a legal role or responsibility because of personal beliefs. Conscientious objection in health care means that some practitioners might choose to not provide certain treatments to their patients as well as some parents may not choose to consent to certain treatments for their children. Under “Conscientious Objection” lies the term “Conscience Clause” which first came about under Roe vs. Wade, during the Supreme Court decision that outlawed abortion. Under...
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...2012 Professional Moral Compass Ethics, a branch of philosophy refers to the values for human conduct, considering the rightness and wrongness of actions and motives. As nursing profession is an integral part of the health care environment, the nursing ethics provides the insight to the values and ethical principles governing nursing practice, conduct, and relationships. The Code of Ethics for Nurses, adopted by the American Nurses' Association (ANA) is intended to provide definite standards of practice and conduct that are essential to the ethical discharge of the nurse's responsibility (American Nurses Association, 2012). A nurse cultivates personal ethics through personal, cultural and spiritual values which becomes a moral compass for their professional ethics. Personal ethics in combination with the code of ethics often assist the nurses in personal and social decision making during ethical dilemma. This ability prompts them to better respond to needs of the suffering patient and their own well-being. This paper will discuss the personal, cultural, and spiritual values contributing to nurses’ individual worldview and philosophy of nursing and the moral and ethical dilemma being faced in this profession. Values Contributing to Individual’s Worldview and Philosophy of Nursing Born in a Christian middle class South Indian family, the strict traditional values helped to embed the concept of service, trust, respect, integrity and responsibility through family, friends, education...
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...gynecology (OB-GYN) medical practice, I have created a huge dilemma, and an unethical decision to take the patient’s medical records home. But, this is all started with Dr. Nugget also making an unethical decision to participate in abortion procedures. which he advertises that he would never condone such a practice. And his patients and medical practice are built on his so strong abortion beliefs. But this was all a lie. Putting aside my personal feelings about abortion, I feel Dr. Nugget lying about his beliefs on abortion, and standing by them so strongly, is the major issue in the case. Also, Dr. Nugget is a shareholder in the abortion clinic where he sends patient referrals quite often. But the case is also built on my wrong doing by taking a patient’s medical records out of the clinic and to my home, which is a Health Information Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) violation. And then when having company over to my house for a visit, I left the medical records in plain view on my dinner table, for anyone to see, which did occur. My visitor then reads a medical chart on his ex-girlfriend. Then the medical information on that patient becomes public in the local newspaper. The patient is outraged, which she has a right to be. As the practicing manger of medical clinic, I did not handle the situation with Dr. Nugget’s false advertisement of condoning abortion in his clinic, sending patient referrals to the abortion clinic and being a shareholder to the clinic, in a professional...
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...Robin Cypress CWV 101 April 26, 2015 Professor Bob Greene Abortion – From A Christian’s Perspective The ability to bring a life into the world after having carried and nurtured it in your womb for a woman is considered a gift and blessing to most, however there are times when the decision to bring a life into the world is clouded by another issue such as rape or fetal abnormalities at which point it becomes an ethical dilemma as to whether to bring that life into the world or to end the pregnancy and the life of the child. This paper will address the ethical dilemma, core beliefs, resolution, evaluation and comparison from the Christian perspective that should be considered during this process. Living life is a gift that God has given each of us and regardless of the circumstances to how we came here or what will be faced along our journey, until God decides to end it, He is the only one who should be capable of making that choice. Ethical Dilemma From the moment that a pregnancy is confirmed, feeling of the first movements, hearing the heartbeat, seeing them waving from the sonogram, to the actual birth, bringing a child into the world for many is an exceptional experience. It is not until you are faced with the possibility that something is wrong with the child such as a lifelong medical condition that you face a difficult decision as to whether to keep the child or terminate the pregnancy. For some the decision is an easy one because they feel within...
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...unless the fetus is past twenty-four weeks of gestation, because of ethical dilemmas, the presence of mother’s rights, fetal rights and viability. One ethical dilemma presented is the controversial issue of preserving the fetus with no regard to the mother’s body; treating her body like a medical experiment. In the case of long-term life support, the body will begin to deteriorate and look more corpse-like over time since machines are providing the primary functions of the body. This process can be very upsetting and disturbing for the family to witness. With this being said, there have actually been several cases in which a healthy, viable child was delivered after prolonged life support.(Farragher) In these cases, the mother or family stated that they wanted to continue life support. This sheds light on the fact that a fetus has rights and due to fetal viability, should be able to live. Therefore, this process may only be disturbing if the family believes the mother would not want to be on life support. Most mothers want to protect their children no matter what happens. So who makes the decisions regarding the fetus? In the case that there is no evidence as to what the mother would want for her child, a surrogate decision-maker is chosen. Typically this role is given to the next of kin, however, this varies by state.(Farragher) In 2013, a controversial case in Texas started that exposed many ethical dilemmas in regards to a brain-dead...
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...Abortion Ethical issues continue to weigh heavily in the way healthcare is delivered in the United States. Diversity makes the most sensitive issues settle in a grey area, rather than simply black or white. Many believe that abortion is ethically justified, when others believe it is morally wrong. The ethical differences in opinions will be explored in the following paragraphs, analyzing the issue from different perspectives. Yet the act of abortion appears to break the vows of non-maleficence that health professionals must remain committed to uphold. According to John Stuart Mill, utilitarianism is a moral theory of ethics in which “an act’s of rightness or wrongness resides either in the nature of the act itself or in the results that the act brings about” (Mill, 2001). In today’s modern society, the utilitarian theory alone accounts for society’s understanding of virtue. The definition of utilitarianism according to Baillie, H.W., McGeehan, J., Garrett, T.M., and Garrett, R.M.(2013 p.4), in Health Ethics states: “Utilitarianism is social consequentialism, that holds that one should act so as to do the greatest good for the greatest number.” Based on the insight of these authors, refraining from abortion contributes to the greater good of not only the childbearing woman, but also to the greater good of society. Many base their argument of abortion on physiological, physical, even socio-economic reasons, but the act unknowingly causes more damage to the woman than one...
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...Analysis of Personal and Organizational Ethics and Values Sharlene Cruz PHI 445 Personal & Organizational Ethics Prof. Robert Wengryzn March 03, 2014 Analysis of Personal and Organizational Ethics and Values In this paper, the author will compare and contrast 2 health care organization’s; Sutter Health Care, a non-profit organization whose mission statement is; “We enhance the well-being of people in the communities we serve through a not-for-profit commitment to compassion and excellence in health care services.” Then there is St. Joseph’s Health Care, a for profit organization whose mission statement is; “To extend the healing ministry of Jesus in the tradition of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange by continually improving the health and quality of life of people in the communities we serve.” Both mission statements, although worded differently, hold the same meaning in regards to community health care, however one basing it’s care on religious overtures. Sutter Health Organization’s website claim they are the largest and most popular health organization in Northern California. Sutter health as it is known today was created in 1996 through the merger of its Sacramento based organization and the Bay Area based Health care System. In part it was created due to many physicians and small clinics and hospitals needing to close their doors due to rising costs and the difficulty of health payments. Sutter Health’s organization is a vast network of health care...
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...Personal differences and preference can greatly impact organizational ethics especially in medical field. Many times, medical decision such as courses of treatment is based on the treating physician experience which sometimes includes physician’s preference of certain medication over another. Pharmaceutical companies often visit hospital and clinic in hope of encouraging physician to prescribe their line of medication over their competitor. The encouragement may include free sample of the medication, notepad, pen, or even an out of town seminar. The seminar is often paid for by the pharmaceutical company that may include a few hours of actual seminar and the rest of the weekend free to leisure activities, according to Carollo (2010), “pharmaceutical companies paid out more than $250 million to some 17,000 doctors and nursed across the country in 2009 and 2010”. Most if not all drugs have side-effect and drugs used to treat the same symptom may have different side effect depending on its ingredient. A physician preference of one type of drug over another, whether it’s due to pass experience of prescribing the drugs or other benefit provided by the pharmaceutical company that come along with prescribing the drugs. Two physicians treating the same symptoms may prescribe two different course of treatment or medication based on the different experience each physician have. Physician A may have prescribed Medication 1 to a patient in pass. That patient may have reacted badly to medication...
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...Ethical Dilemmas Choose only one of the ethical dilemmas below to address in your essay. The questions at the end of each dilemma are intended for you to reflect on. For your paper you must organize your writing using the sections and underlined titles listed on the assignment page. Do not copy the case study into your essay. 1. Pornography Joe secretly enjoys pornography. He gets a great deal of gratification out of viewing Internet pornography and masturbating, though he always acts behind closed doors and believes that his actions have no effect on others. He justifies his behavior by saying, ‘Who am I harming?’ Then he discovers a statistic on the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking website (http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/labour/Forced_labour/HUMAN_TRAFFICKING_-_THE_FACTS_-_final.pdf) stating that 43% of human trafficking victims are used for forced commercial sexual exploitation, of whom 98% are women and girls, and that the pornography business is a multibillion dollar industry (Global Initiative, n.d.). His freedom to view pornography is now at odds with harm to himself (addiction) and others (abuse through forced trafficking and media exploitation). (More information can be found at http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/may/may_17pornographycost.html, which is a report by William May called “The Social Costs of Pornography” provided by the Witherspoon Institute out of Princeton [May, 2010].) How should Joe respond? Should he maintain his lifestyle...
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...Kendra Manning Ethical Decision-Making Scenarios Worksheet For each scenario, discuss what the helper should do or should not have done. Support your answer with statements from the ethical standards for human service professionals (BOX 9.6 in Ch. 9 of the text) that provide guidance for each issue the helper faces. Your response must be thorough to demonstrate understanding of the ethical standards. Write in complete sentences with correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar. |Roseanne is a social worker with two preschool-aged children. Wanda, one of Roseanne’s clients, is a single parent who also has a | |preschool-aged child. Wanda has been unable to find work since she was laid off from her position at a daycare center that allowed | |her to bring her young son to work with her. She tells Roseanne that she is desperate for work, but even if she could get a job, | |she would not be able to afford childcare. Roseanne’s own daycare provider has just announced that she will be moving out of state | |at the end of the month. Roseanne is considering offering Wanda a job as her daycare provider. | |Answer: | | | | ...
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