Essays on Consent

Overview

Consents taking and documentation is a vital part of legal and medical ethics that guides medical practice. It serves as a tool for effective patient management. It is meant to be taking before any form of treatment simply because all patients capable of understanding of such form of information has the right to receive accurate information regarding his or her illness/condition, the physician treatment plan, associated complications and effect, and other available treatment options. It is the responsibility of the physician to ensure this is achieved and properly documented before any start of treatment.

Improper taking and documentation

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Whenever the topic of abortion is raised in various channels, many would immediately call for anti-abortion due to its immoral and unethical background. Many religions have also denounced abortion as it claims innocent lives. Christianity is one of the staunchest rivals for those who believe abortion can be accepted as the heads of the religion believe that a fetus already has a life and killing it would be against the laws given by God. Nowadays, this argument is further escalated when proposals for legalizing abortion has gone underway. In the United States alone, abortion is legalized in some states Continue reading...

The continued advancement in technology has cut across all spheres of the economy. The field of medicine has had its fair share of the cake having to incorporate the complexities of science and technology. One such area relates to organ transplantation. It has become possible to save humanity through the transplant of organs from one human to another. However, the process in itself though scientifically possible, remains riddled with several challenges and raises questions bordering on the moral, religious and legal frontiers. This paper essentially takes into consideration the place of the law in relation to the application ofsuch Continue reading...

Other Current and Emerging Issues in Health Care

Lesson4:1-Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Consent
Lesson 4:2- Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Reproductive and End-of-Life Issues
Lesson 4:3 -The Impact of Globalization & Emerging Technology
Abstract
This document contains three essays pertaining to the lesson entitled ‘Other Current and Emerging Issues in Health Care’ outlining three subject areas. Lesson4:1 relates Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Consent; Lesson 4:2- Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Reproductive and End-of-Life Issues and Lesson 4:3 -The Impact of Globalization & Emerging Technology.
Lesson4:1-Decision-Making Concerning Individuals: Consent
Question 1:- Case Study, Mrs. Mary Smith.

Step 1: Facts

- She was admitted to Jones Memorial Hospital
- Initially her injuries did not seem severe.
- She remained in Continue reading...

Informed Consent in Scientific Testing

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Informed consent is the process of getting the prior consent of the patient, before choices about his/her health care is made. This concept is based on the, rights a patient has on her body, and the ethical duty of the physician to inform the patient about the things happening to her body. The consent might be required both for performing a therapy for the ailment of the patient, or to make them participate in a clinical trial. An informed consent is said to have been obtained from a patient, when she is fully aware of Continue reading...

Introduction

Every criminal justice system in the world is characterized by policy and procedure directives that ensures that all the actions and processes in this system are within the constitutional and legal confines. The policy and procedure are enacted to ensure that the constitutional rights of stakeholders are not infringed upon when these individuals are exposed to a particular criminal justice process. Unfortunately, there arises some situations in the course of disseminating justice where some actions cause massive legal disagreements. An individual who has been subjected to a particular process may claim that the process was unconstitutional or that his Continue reading...

Introduction

Statutory rape is usually defined by the state law concerned. However, statutory rape is distinguished from other forms of rape in that the victim must necessarily be below the age of consent and that lack of consent is not a requisite to the crime on the common understanding that a person below a certain age lacks the capability to give an informed consent. Prior to the development of modern statutory rape laws, statutory rape was used to protect young women and children from the sexual incursion of unwanted males. At that time, women were regarded as chattels or property Continue reading...

A consent decree project was proposed by attorneys of a fictional jail named Adelphi County Jail in Maryland in the United States. This proposed consent decree was instigated by a particular situation that occurred at the jail involving two of the inmates where some prison officers accessed the inmate’s belongings on suspicion of possession of contrabands. This report analyzes the consent decree project in the context of the situation that occurred leading to the decree. This report seeks to address the extent to which this situation, the policy and procedure directive of the jail and the appellate court Continue reading...

The American Association of Christian Counselors Code of Ethics (AACC Code) and the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics has myriad differences as well as the resemblances. This code of ethics main purpose is to offer protection to the profession, counselor, and the client. This paper aims at comparing and contrasting the two codes of ethics. The American Counseling Association Code of Ethics is the forerunner for setting down the ethical standards to be engaged in the counseling scope. Nevertheless, The American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) has been introduced to give direction to counselors opting to incorporate the Continue reading...

(Define the 4th, 5th, 6th ans 14th amendment of the united states constitution and cite at least one case as it relates to interview and interrogation. when you cite any case you need to give the details of the case or as much information that you feel is necessary for one to understand what occurred)

Introduction

In Tarasoff v. The Regents of the University of California [S.F. No. 23042, Supreme Court of California, July 1, 1976], a ‘wrongful death’ action was filed against the Regents of the University of California hospital psychotherapists and campus policemen. The victim’s parents testified Continue reading...

Introduction 3

Gillick Competency Principle 4
Roles and responsibilities of nurses 5
Conclusion 8

References: 10

Ethical and Legal issue
This case study focuses on a minor girl who does not want her parents to know that she is pregnant. She is contemplating terminating the pregnancy via an abortion without consulting or seeking the consent of her parents.
According to the 2010 Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Bill, a minor is a person aged less than 18 years. The client in question, Chin Lee, is a minor because she is only 15 years old. In Western Australia, minors are governed by separate Continue reading...

Introduction

The case study is of a minor young girl who does not want her parents to know that she has become pregnant. She is considering an abortion and has already decided that whatever be her medical condition, she would provide consent on her own without any consultation with her parents.
According to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (WA) Bill 2010, a minor is a person who is less than 18 years. The client in question, Chin Lee is a minor since she is only 15 years old. However, there are separate rules and regulations for minors living in Continue reading...

1. Indian Council on Medical Research. Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Participants. New Delhi: Indian Council on Medical Research, 2006.
The source provides detailed guidelines for any biomedical research on Human subjects. The central principle in these guidelines is the protection of the human subjects as well as ensuring that they benefit from the results of the research. The guidelines also provides for informed consent by the subjects where possible as a mandatory requirement for research on human subjects. Although the guidelines were developed for research in India the ethical principles and issues regard to research involving Continue reading...

The term bioethics was coined in the early 1970s by biologists who brought to the public’s attention two pressing issues; the need to maintain the plant’s ecology and the implication of advances in the life sciences toward manipulating human nature. Van Rensselaer Potter has focused on the growing human ability to change the nature, including human nature and the implication of this for our global future [ CITATION Van71 \l 1033 ]. While bioethics has been interdisciplinary since its inception, theology played a fundamental role in its creation. It continues to have a profound influence today also.
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Introduction

The recent expansion of healthcare ethics to evidence based research practice aims to address patient safety issues surrounding medical treatment an intervention. The “nature, behaviour and consequences of patient safety incidents and their surrounding circumstances” are a longstanding concern, and one which has the potential to cost healthcare institutions exceptional levels of expenditure in medical malpractice damages.
The World Health Organization (WHO) policy outlined in Ethical Issues in Patient Safety: Interpreting Existing Guidance covers the framework to ethical practice in medicine (WHO, 2013). Research inquires directed at resolving ethical challenges in contemporary policy and procedure (i.e. informed consent), inform Continue reading...

Introduction:

A personal philosophy of ethical practice using core values and essential principles and practices for doctoral research in the field of education should encompass intent, practice and the final use of the materials. To conduct oneself ethically involves more than doing the right thing. Ethical conduct must include acting in the right spirit. Setting out with the right intent and obeying the rules is not sufficient, ethical conduct must also abiding respect and concern for other individuals.
Ethical conduct for doctoral research in the field of education is particularly sensitive and demanding. Unlike research undertaken for commercial purposes, education Continue reading...

Introduction

Some patients, especially those facing life-threatening illnesses, choose to avoid certain procedures or treatment or medication and may leave the hospital or clinic before they are treated. Regardless of this, it is the role of discharge staff to make sure that these patients are well-informed and that they are willing to pick a particular course of action by their own free will. Informed consent is based on the common law, which has the basic idea that all adult human beings have a right to determine what shall be done to their own bodies. Patient consent is the permission, which Continue reading...

Leadership refers not to the position or power of a person; it is a particular person’s relationship with his or her followers/community. Ethics is not focused on the individual; it is about an individual’s relationship with the people around him or her. Therefore, leadership ethics relies on the web of relationships within the community. Workers or followers will conduct their behavior based on what the leader shows them. The leader is the one who sets the standards in an organization, and his actions directly impact all those around him or her, creating the mood set in the Continue reading...

Introduction

In this report we discuss the requirement a project manager has to comply with before initiating a project. As we have found out, the government of New Zealand has championed for measures aimed towards conserving the environment. This is before the commencement and after the project. This was made to take place due to the fact that previous projects have proved to be carelessly detrimental to the environment. The Resource Management Act of 1991 includes one of the legal strategies that were laid to curb destruction of the environment.

Resource Consents

Before initiating any project, there are important things that one Continue reading...

Proposal for a Course of Action

Introduction
The patient, described as a ninety year old, depressed professor, was selected for the long-term care assistance analysis is evaluated for palliative care in a hospice environment (Cohen, 2006, 235). Benefits identified in recommendation of a hospice care setting include: 1) patient request for placement outside of home; due to 2) and inability to maintain the property. The latter issue relates to both financial distress and to everyday upkeep. The patient suffers from age related fatigue and blindness, and requires pharmaceutical administration, daily.
Social factors considered in the recommendation were defined by the patient. The patient has no Continue reading...

GENERAL ORIENTATION TO SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Abstract
Safety management within sports and health facilities are a crucial part of properly administering any area used for physical activity. The area in this case refers to the geographical zone, the facilities used and any person engaging in activity within the said locality. This paper analyses the 34 forms that are provided in Appendix B of the ACM’s Health and Fitness Facility Standards and Guidelines. Wave Health and Fitness Boston was chosen as the fitness entity on which the applicability of the 34 forms would be tested.

Introduction

In every health facility or sports environment there is a Continue reading...

Introduction

There are conditions in which medical treatment is provided either forcefully or without informed consent. There are plenty of such incidents arising with patients suffering from personality disorders, dementia and even with cancer treatment for non-consenting minors. There are some fundamental questions that arise regarding the existing law. A minor, who has little understanding and intelligence about the cancer treatment, cannot comprehend fully as to what is involved in their treatment. Anyone aged 16-17 is supposed to be deciding the consent for their treatment.
There was a case of a child patient who was severely mentally and physically disabled Continue reading...

Since the turn of the 21st century, and the emergence of a global knowledge sharing practice based in medicine, the increased attention to practitioner ethics has created an interdisciplinary focus on informed consent practice (Showalter). In most healthcare contexts, this topic is further refracted through the lens of medical malpractice liability and tortious negligence lawsuits (Hoey). Some countries also sustain social policies that may actually pose risk to patients; as in the case of fetal sex inquiries under China’s one child policy.
The importance of informed consent as a rule and as an ethical obligation to a duty Continue reading...

- In class we discussed how both rape and incest are “wrong.”
- When we say incest is wrong we’re really saying it’s “disgusting.”
- The problem with rape is lack of “consent.”
II. What about incest between an adult and a child? This is considered “statutory rape.”
A. In class, we focused mostly on adult incest, but we did say that one potential problem with incest in general is a lack of consent.

B. What makes kids unable to consent?

III. One major thing missing from our conversation about consent is mental acuity.
A. Perhaps part of the reason that we view incest Continue reading...

Imagine that you’re a prisoner on death row in China; it’s the day before you’re being executed. A few prison officials bring you into a room and sit you down at a table, with a crying woman on the other side. This woman, they explain to you, is the mother of a child who needs a kidney transplant of he will die. They want to use your kidney after you are executed. Upon first hearing this proposal, you are nervous and uncomfortable – you never agreed to have your organs harvested. However, they put a piece of Continue reading...

Environmental Effects

Environmental Effects: Resources Consent
Overview
The proposed quarry site is situated in an environmentally rich location. Exotic mature trees that are not native to its current ecosystem basically surround it; therefore, it was planted in the area to grow as newly adapting tree specie. In addition, sheep’s that are thriving in the grass growing in the Kanuka Hill presently grazes the land. Small bodies of water are presently home to small animals like small fish, birds and frogs at the surrounding wetlands and Kanuka stream. Furthermore, high concentration of vegetation and other plants are present in the location, Continue reading...

Meaningful research which can be applied in real life situations is based on ethical conduct of researchers. The researchers have a duty to protect the study participants and to maintain confidentiality. Considerations of ethical research include informed consent from the participants, privacy, confidentiality, anonymity, and beneficence (Fouka & Mantrozorou, 2011). This paper evaluates the case of Sarita Kudumula, 13, whose parents learned she was participating in a Human Papiloma Virus (HPV) vaccine clinical trial after she died.
HPV is a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Various vaccines have been developed against the virus and most are tested in Continue reading...

John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

Disproportionate and Unequal Possession of the Earth:
John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

In John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, Section 50 says that “by a tacit and voluntary consent,” men “have agreed to a disproportionate and unequal possession of the earth” (Locke, 1690, p. 19). Whether or not gold or money is a good representative of real wealth in goods or services and that man has made this tacit and consensual agreement for “disproportionate and unequal possession of the earth” is a debate that scholars continue to debate. Locke’s writing invites inquiry; his ideas concerning Continue reading...

Policies and Ethics in Healthcare

The Case of the Depressed Patient

The situation where patient R.L. is suffering from depression have rendered more complications to his overall health. But before persuading R.L. to agree to the medical procedures that he has to undergo, it is detrimental that his depression must be addressed first, otherwise, any persuasive efforts would render ineffective because of his depress condition. First thing first, is to analyze the causes of his depression and eradiate them one by one. The fact that his wife recently passed away, R.L. would have felt alone considering that his social behavior is weak and his Continue reading...

Introduction

Ethical issues in nursing research include informed consent. The institution review board ensures that researchers observe and uphold the requirements that govern their relationship with the participants. During research, although a nurse seeks to gather quality first-hand information, they must not compromise the rights of the participants and should provide all information regarding the same. Ethical concerns during nursing research involve identifying the gap between a nurse’s research objective and the participants` rights.

Ethical concerns

One ethical issue in nursing and the selected research project revolves around informed consent. Considering the principles of beneficence, justice, and autonomy that guide the Continue reading...

Introduction

The opposition by many ethicists towards the principle of medical paternalism is severely faulty. When analyzed keenly, such an approach is not beneficial at all. Alternatively, the best approach should be to regulate medical paternalism in a way that gives the patients autonomy at certain times and denies them the autonomy when it is necessary. It is crucial that patients are asked to consent or refuse to the medications that doctors administer to them. However, there are some situations whereby giving patients the opportunity or chance to give consent has no foreseeable positive outcomes. At times, the patients are Continue reading...

Sexual consent is a concept shrouded in mystery in modern times. It has become increasingly difficult to identify sexual acts guided by mutual consent by the partners’ involved, implied consent, and outright rape. Kate Harding in her article ‘How Rape in Pop Culture Became a Matter of Opinion’ holds the opinion that the notion of rape in pop culture depiction is diluted to the opinion of the individual. Cases of portrayed rape are left to the discretion of individual interpretation, thus, according to Harding, subjecting female victims of sexual assault to normalized abuse, in the face of popular opinion.
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Issues for Healthcare Organizations

Lesson 3:1- Antitrust
Lesson 3:2 - Health Information Management
Lesson 3:3 - Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance
Abstract
This document contains answers to lessons 3 units 1, 2, 3 pertaining to Issues for Healthcare Organizations. Unit 1 explores antitrust management; unit 2 - Health Information Management and unit 3 Fraud, Abuse, and Corporate Compliance.
Issues for Healthcare Organizations
Lesson 3:1- Antitrust

Question 1: Antitrust regulations - Sherman and Clayton Acts

- Mergers, consolidations and acquisition components of Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts like any other corporate legal intervention endorses regulations regarding purchasing; selling, dividing and combining with other companies that offer different or similar products and services. The Continue reading...

Police Officers

Purpose of the proposed research
Like all professions, the profession of a police officer is also bound by ethics. In the course of their duty, police officers face several ethical dilemmas, where they are required to take decisions. They are faced with the needs of the law on one hand and ethical codes based on judgment of right and wrong, on the other hand. Situations and circumstances may be different case to case and the strict application of a law would be inappropriate in certain cases. Compared to most other professional ethics, the police ethics are relatively underdeveloped. Police Continue reading...

International arbitration allows international business persons from different legal backgrounds to amicably solve their grievances. Parties to a contractual agreement or in an international relationship seek an impartial party who carries out the adjudicatory process. The resolution by the arbitrators is usually binding and carries a provision of arbitration in future contractual disputes. International Arbitration has over the last half century gained popularity because of the expeditious nature of the method. Businesses and international traders prefer international arbitration to the domestic legal process. A dispute would usually be handled under the judicial system under which the dispute occurred. Resolving Continue reading...

Introduction

Stem cell research has brought remarkable potential in cell growth in early life and growth. Stem cell offers the potential of addressing certain problems that humans face. The understanding of basic mechanisms of stem cell research aids human development and differentiation. Such an approach is vital in the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, spinal cord injury and other terminal illnesses (Lo and Parham, 2009). The stem cells research has generated many ethical research issues. Ethical debates on stem cell research continue to dominate the political scene.
One of the major issues relating to informed consent touches on the Continue reading...

- What does ‘characterization’ mean in environmental planning law and what effect does s.106 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) have in relation to this? (300 Words)
In environmental planning law, “characterization” refers to a set of procedures used for formulating and determining applications for land use development. At its minimum interpretation, characterization with respect to the development is centrally concerned with the location and allocation of development about its characteristics on the land. In this minimalist interpretation, the role of characterization is to provide a framework within which efficient criteria for formulating and enforcing regulatory Continue reading...

Ethical Issues in “Written Parental Consent and the Use of Incentives in a Youth Smoking Prevention Trial: A Case Study From Project SPLASH”

Although the potential ethical issues associated with this specific research seem minor, “worst-case scenario” risks to participants could include invasion of privacy, psychological trauma or emotional upset, embarrassment, stigma, peer pressure relating to the survey and discussion of confidential survey content and time costs.
The research also raised questions about the potential for coerciveness of students. A very large percentage of students whose parents completed the consent form by assenting that their child could participate in Continue reading...

Introduction

Ethics is the principal moral conduct which addresses issues which are perceive to infringe the rights of an individual. Ethics tries to define and guide us how an individual should live in a society in a harmony. It also tries to analyze the impacts of one’s behavior to others and its social consequence in the long run. It also compares what is moral one society and what is not in another society. This is because our societies are divergent what is accepted as moral in one society can be regarded as totally immoral in another society. A good Continue reading...

MSc Independent Engineering Scholarship (IES) Proposal

Personal Details
Dissertation Proposal
Background
This project is inspired by the need to utilize semi conductor technologies that have spiraled in the past decade to develop high efficient solar cell materials which are capable of utilizing higher degree spectrum light. The University of (University Name) Infrastructure development permitting the development of systems capable of measuring new solar cell performances has allowed the usage of a single chip with discrete components. The system is applicable in a host of functions including space, terrestrial and recycling of used Silicon wafers to produce solar cells.
The design consists of an easy circuit Continue reading...