Question

Why did you choose the theory you did and how can it be used to guide your decision?Which of the five principles is the most widely used and accepted in the current US healthcare system and why? Which principle is the most ignored principle and why?

Answer 1

Ethics and economics share areas of overlap. They both deal with how people should behave, what policies the state should pursue and what obligations citizens owe to their governments. The centrality of the human person in both normative economics and normative ethics is pertinent to this discussion. Economics is the study of human action in the marketplace whereas ethics deals with the “rightness” or “wrongness” of human action in general. Both disciplines are rooted in human reason and human nature and the two disciplines intersect at the human person and the analysis of human action.

Example :      

The nurse tells the patient that she will come back to check on her. Even though she gets slammed by a heavy workload, she manages to squeeze in a few moments to visit the patient

A nurse is providing end-of-life care for a patient who is in pain. The nurse is unable to obtain an order to pain drugs from the provider, who seems to have an attitude that this issue is not worth her time to address. Understanding that he must advocate for the patient, he approaches his supervisor to explain the issue. Eventually, an order for morphine is received and the nurse is able to administer it to the patient

The hospital maintains a supply of brochures in the lobby that provides information on appointing a durable power of attorney