...Personal Nursing Ethics Laurie Stein Grand Canyon University: NRS-437V Ethical Decision Making In Healthcare October 12, 2012 Personal Nursing Ethics Growing up in a rural Midwest farming area in a family of 11 people I learned at an early age how important family and people in the surrounding community were to me. My family and the majority of my small community were devout Catholics. Our social life revolved around church, family and friends. My parents taught myself and my siblings the value of friendship, being kind to your neighbors and respect for others and their property. Sometimes I thought they were almost too strict but did realize later that this discipline provided the basis for what I am today. As I prepared to venture out into the world after graduation I knew I was a “people person” and pursued a degree in medical assisting. As a medical assistant I felt that I was an integral part of the patients’ lives. Providing medical care was important but many of these patients knew they could talk and confide in me about other things whether it was a personal problem or family problem or maybe they just needed someone to listen. It was here that the values that I was taught by my parents became so important. Sometimes I was faced with some ethic decisions in regards to my religion as a medical assistant when having to assist with vasectomies. The rhythm method is the only birth control practice accepted by the Catholic Church. To assist with this procedure...
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... 2015, there have been 141 reported cases of Measles in 17 states across America (citation). Measles is an infectious viral disease causing fever and a red rash on the skin, typically occurring in childhood. This infectious disease can be prevented by getting a vaccine. A vaccine is a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases. In the past 50 years, vaccinations have saved more lives worldwide than any other medical product or procedure. The intriguing story of vaccination goes all the way back to ancient Greece. Ever since the invention of the first vaccine more than two centuries ago, there has been plenty of controversy over the morality, ethics, effectiveness, and safety of vaccination and immunization. Parents should be required to vaccinate their children. Throughout this essay, the focus will be on the health of the children, the falsifying data about vaccinations, and the benefits of them. Every parent’s biggest concern is the health of their children. As a parent, you make informed choices about your child’s health and safety every day. The health of any child depends heavily on if they receive vaccinations. The children that receive these vaccinations tend to be more resistant to some diseases than those who do not. Because of advances in medical science, your child can be protected against more diseases than ever before. Some diseases that once injured or killed thousands of children, have been eliminated...
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...child(ren) fully vaccinated because they fear that the child may suffer from a mental disability such as autism. Parents make that decision because they are only looking at the risks for their own child’s health, but the don’t keep in mind the health of the people that are constantly around their children. There have been too many deaths from vaccine preventable diseases. “Since the 25th anniversary of HIV, there have been about 2.1 million deaths from vaccine preventable diseases; 1.4 million of those deaths were children under the age of five-years-old. This is a very alarming statistic, and something needs to be done to help lower these numbers. It needs to be required that parents have their juveniles vaccinated because without their immunizations they are putting their child’s health at risk, and also the people who are around them, on a daily basis. Vaccines are one of the most cost-effective inventions in the medical field (Colgrove), and the cost is just going to get even larger as more research is done. All of the different vaccines have helped reduce the number of deadly infections and diseases people can get. Most, if not all, health care providers recommend that health care workers, frequent travelers, and elderly citizens be also vaccinated regularly just like children. A lot of parents have been filling out vaccine exemption forms when enrolling their children is school. Some parents do it because of their personal beliefs and some do it because of religious reasons...
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...Would you risk it? Preventive care is the biggest milestone of the medical world, and vaccination represents one of the most important strategies in the prevention of disease in adults but more importantly children. The choices parents make to immunizations is a questionable debate. For example small pox has been globally eradicated, while diseases such as, polio are virtually nonexistent. Other life-threatening conditions such as measles have been dramatically curtailed to the point where families no longer fear the drastic effects of it. But in the recent outbreak of the measles in Disneyland, one would question if parents are still getting their children vaccinated for the measles. Dr. Andrew Wakefield wrote a research paper in 1998 on how vaccinations specifically measles and MMR could give a child autism, since then the speculations have increased and parents are worrisome. This is where one is at a stance, to vaccinate or not. Measles and other what once were eradicated diseases should be a requirement since scientists have now shown there are no correlations with autism, prevent the disease from spreading to others, and humanity would benefit as a whole. The recent outbreak in the US of the measles have taken parents are taking more towards social media and reading on some ‘news’ of how some vaccinations can cause diseases one of the most common autism. The news went around that the measles vaccination could give the risk of autism, and was even credited by some doctors...
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...Vaccines should be mandatory The invention of the vaccinations has been one of the greatest health interventions, saving millions of people from infectious diseases (Ehreth, 2002). The vaccine program has had extraordinary success in decreasing the spread of preventable diseases (Zimmerman, 2000). Research shows vaccines are safe, provide a way to protect your child and society, and help avoid wide spread disease. Vaccines are not completely 100% safe, but it is safer than the infectious disease it is preventing (Concerns about vaccine safety, 2009). With any drugs, there are side effects, but serious ones are rare (Concerns about vaccine safety, 2009). Children are given vaccines at an early age when other development issues also come to light, and vaccines are given the blame (Concerns about vaccine safety, 2009). It is a coincidence that those developmental issues have surfaced at the same time. Most developmental issues surface in early childhood. Vaccine side effects are very rare. Before a new vaccine can be administered, vaccines endure many years of testing, making vaccines even safer (Wharton el al, 2001). Making the side effects even rarer. In 1999 most childhood vaccinations were reformulated to not contain Thirmosal as a preservative. Thimosal is 50% mercury containing organic compound most widely used in vaccines. It was used as a preservative in vaccines starting in the 1930’s. It has since been removed from vaccines for children...
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...Risk Versus Reward: The Continuing Vaccination Question As young Americans living in the twenty first century, vaccines have always had a place in our lives. It is taught to us at a young age that vaccines are not only beneficial but necessary to the pursuit of healthy and long lives. For decades, we have been giving vaccines to ourselves and our children without question because the doctors say we should and they have the education, not us. The number of vaccines that children are mandated to receive continues to rise at an alarming rate. Currently, children receive approximately fourteen different vaccinations before the age of two Many of these vaccinations require multiple inoculations, which often have a child receiving four more shots in a single visit (Akinsanya-Beysolow). Every year, more vaccines are added to the list. With the speed of vaccine approval, it is time to step back and reevaluate who is making these recommendations and for what reasons. The cost to vaccinate a child from birth to eighteen has risen from one hundred dollars in1986 to $2,192 (Rosenthal). Vaccine manufacturing is a huge business with a vested interest in mandating vaccines. The decision to vaccinate should be left to the patient and parents, not the government or vaccine manufacturers. Data shows that even before vaccines most of the diseases we vaccinate for were on the decline (Obomsawin). Childhood illness rates have been on a steady increase over the last few decades. As the childhood...
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...CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY John Molson School of Business - Department of Finance Portfolio Management - FINA 411/2/A, C Course Outline – Fall 2014 Instructor: Dr. Abraham I. Brodt Office: MB 12.215 Tel: 848-2424-2997 Fax: 848-4500 E-mail: ABrodt@jmsb.concordia.ca [SUBJECT: FINA 411 …….] Classes: FINA 411/2A Mondays 11:45 - 14:30 [MB1.437] FINA 411/2C Wednesdays 11:45 - 14:30 [MB5.255] Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 15:30 -- 16:30 [Please e-mail me first to confirm] and by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on modern investment theory and its application to the management of entire portfolios. It will consist of lectures, discussions of cases and articles, and video presentations. Topics include: a) construction of optimal asset portfolios using techniques such as the single index model, b) extensions of the capital asset pricing model: theory and tests; example, the zero-beta model, c) criteria for evaluation of investment performance, d) active vs. passive portfolio management, e) investment strategies. The Formula Growth Investment Centre Lab will be used to demonstrate the use of specialized investment software. Computer exercises are assigned to illustrate the application of the theory. Prerequisites: FINA 380 or 385; FINA 390 or 395. LEARNING OBJECTIVES To understand the theory and practice of Portfolio Management for Individuals and Institutions, e.g. Endowments, Mutual Funds, Pension Plans, etc. ...
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...Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION Health Promotion In Nursing H. Rachelle Thompson Grand Canyon University NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion August 12, 2012 Health Promotion in Nursing Health promotion comes in many forms and it can be done almost anywhere, in the community, at home, and on even larger scales across the nation. The purpose of this paper is to discuss health promotion as it is defined, as well as it’s purpose, the differing types of health promotion, and the implementation of health promotion, giving consideration to the role of the nurse. Health Promotion With the changing healthcare system and the rise in chronic illnesses and non-communicable diseases there is an increased need to educate the community and patients individually in order to reach optimal levels of wellness. Health promotion occurs not just on the small-scale, by holding yearly flu clinics at the health department, but also on the national scale, such as the push for lifestyle modifications in the fight on obesity that has become politicized (Carter et al., 2011). Health promotion itself can be difficult to define (Peckham, Hann, & Boyce, 2011), but according to Jadelhack the definition of health promotion is “the process which enables people to improve control over the determinants of health and as a result to improve their own health” (2012, p. 65). Purpose The goal of health promotion is to give individuals the knowledge and power to control certain aspects...
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...AMERICAN SPECILIST HOSPITAL: NIGERIA BY Laruzzi Globally, health services are known to be provided at different levels by different agencies and specialists. In Nigeria, health services are taken care of by the three tiers of government, namely: The Federal, State and Local governments. These are also supported by organizations and the private individuals who establish and run private medical services. Traditional medical practitioners who serve the majority of the rural populace also belong to this privatized category. Several global organizations have played phenomenal roles in the development and sustenance of health services in Nigeria. Unfortunately a lot of these contributions go through government (mostly Federal government), which has kept very little or no record of the impact these contributions make. Another issue are the records of the exact cash amount of these contributions; they are sketchy, partly due to poor record-keeping and the volume of a contributions are in services, and in equipment and training, whose cash amount is usually difficult to establish. These organizations include WHO, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), UNICEF, World Bank and British Technical Assistance (BTA). However, it has come to the knowledge of most researchers that the rural areas have several problems. According to research, the critical set back to development in most developing countries of the world is the lack of proper and adequate...
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...The history of research ethics begins with the tragic history of research abuse by Nazi doctors during World War II. A total of sixteen German physicians practiced unethical medical experiments on Jews, gypsies, and political prisoners. These experiments on thousands of concentration camp prisoners were done without their consent. Unethical medical experimentation carried out during the Third Reich may be divided into three categories. The first category consists of experiments aimed at facilitating the survival of Axis military personnel. In Dachau, physicians from the German air force and from the German Experimental Institution for Aviation conducted high-altitude experiments, using a low-pressure chamber, to determine the maximum altitude from which crews of damaged aircraft could parachute to safety. Scientists there carried out so-called freezing experiments using prisoners to find an effective treatment for hypothermia. They also used prisoners to test various methods of making seawater drinkable. The second category of experimentation aimed at developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses which German military and occupation personnel encountered in the field. At the German concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Natzweiler, Buchenwald, and Neuengamme, scientists tested immunization compounds and sera for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases, including malaria, typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow...
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...Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine how the health care managers make things better by taking ethics seriously in a global business environment that helps future growth of a business. The paper describes the importance of ethics in any business and how implementing the solution derived from it will prevent the worst to happen in any organization. We must recognize that business ethics is a must and foremost about any business and following ethics in healthcare management will surely deteriorate the problems that we might face in the present and the future. Ethics in Healthcare Management Introduction Ethics is the way of referring ourselves to the perspective of what is right and what is wrong? Ethics is a moral principle that guides or governs our behavior and it helps us to make a better decision or to make better choices. It is a guideline that support our thinking and beliefs along with some rules and regulations that has to be followed to sustain in any business. Ethical issue arises when judging what is right or wrong, when you are provided with many options, when you are judging the impact of your decision, when you are faced with a dilemma, etc. It is a moral value as we learn about ethics from our parents when we are young depending on the culture, tradition, etc. speaking the truth was an ethics taught by my father when I was a kid. I do remember it till today because my moral values that I learned from my father is still with me and it...
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...On May 20, 2014 UNICEF released a statement where they expressed their appreciation of the U.S. Government not using vaccination efforts as a means to gather intelligence or for military purposes (1). When the hunt for Osama Bin Laden was underway, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched a pseudo-vaccination campaign in Pakistan with the intention of discovering the DNA sequencing of the Bin Laden Family for identification purposes (3). This analysis looks at the various parties involved for this particular operation that spurred the statement as well as looking at the overall public health effects of this decision. Leadership In this CIA operation, the leadership included those in the CIA as well as those with Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. All stakeholders had one intention, which was about the defense of the Nation and not the public health implications. From a stakeholder perspective, if other members of the Federal Government were involved in this decision making process there could have been the potential for the operation being found out before a DNA sequence could be obtained. Decision makers had to determine the length that they were willing to go in an effort to capture the most wanted man in the world, or they could just make a formal apology to the world saying that they wouldn’t do it again after the fact. Norms and Standards If the number one goal of a nation is a self serving interest, then the United States proved that point...
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...Case Study: Amway- The role of stakeholders 1. Who are the stakeholders and what methods of communication does Amway use with each? “Stakeholders” is a group or individual that has an interest in an enterprise or project. The primary stakeholders in a typical corporation are its investors, employees, customers and suppliers. Some definitions suggest that stakeholders are those who have the power to impact an organisation or project in some way. There are many ways to communicate with the stakeholders. Like Amway, they use websites, emails and voice mail to updates, promote product and services to Amway Business Owner (ABOs) and their customer. Amway also use industry group as a way to share and received industry information among the member. Publication such as monthly newsletter, Amway Focus and Amagram use to updates all members regarding new information on Amway. For example Amagram includes recognitions of ABO success, articles on new leader (Diamond and above) as well as product training and other information. Other than that Amway use events and exhibition as a tool to connect with ABOs, consumers and guest about running an Amway business and the products it can deliver. 2. Explain how the ABOs operate their business and potential issues? Amway combines direct selling with a multi-level marketing strategy. "Amway Business Owners" (ABOs) may market products directly to potential customers and may also recruit (sponsor) and train other people to become ABOs. ABOs may...
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...The U.S. Government on Mandatory Vaccination What are vaccines? Vaccines contain a mixture of sugars, proteins, and certain chemicals that all serve a purpose in neutralizing the severely weakened or dead virus within. They are substances that are typically injected subcutaneously under the skin to trigger a bodily response. This response activates the creation of antibodies against the foreign compounds, which then leads to immunization from the desired disease. Although the modern story of vaccination began with Edward Jenner’s approach of introducing already infected material to a healthy subject to protect against smallpox, the idea dates as far back as 1000 B.C. in China. Before agreeing to the label of vaccination, it was generally termed inoculation. It was Jenner’s 1796 research that became the base for which smallpox ultimately became eradicated in the United States. Today we strive to advance our understanding of vaccinations to build a future free from diseases such as HIV, malaria, dengue, and RSV. Today, the government and its schools hold considerable responsibility in the control of preventable diseases. The initial mandatory vaccination laws were passed by Massachusetts in the early 1850’s. The vaccine law transpired because of the new mandatory school attendance law. It was passed in order to keep the growing number of school students safe from disease, and to halt the advancement of smallpox. Vaccines were never collectively respected though. The...
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