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Bioethics Unit 4 Bioethics and Its Application in Various Health Care Situations
Bioethics Unit 4 Bioethics and Its Application in Various Health Care Situations
INFORMED CONSENT
Means that participants have adequate information regarding
the research, are capable of comprehending the information,
and have the power of free choice enabling them to consent
to or decline participation voluntarily.
RIGHT TO PRIVACY
Virtually all research with humans involves intruding into
personal lives. Researchers should ensure that participants’
privacy is maintained throughout the study.
THE PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE
● Family planning
Ethical Consideration in ● Social responsibility
Leadership and Management Unit VI ● Immigration policies
● Resource management.
Continuous Quality improvement (CQI) ● Stem cell research
● Identify indicators ● DNR status
● Collect ongoing data on indicators
● Analyze and evaluate data Nurses take note!
● Implement change ● An issue is not an ethical issue for the nurse unless he or
● (utilize evidence based practice) she has been asked
● Always gather the facts prior to decision-making
How does structured care methodologies ● Consider your personal beliefs and values
work?
● Link process of care (issue) and outcome Why Ethics?
● Determine method of measurement ● current health care system is fragmented, poorly
● Clarify responsibilities of interdisciplinary team organized, inefficient use of resources.
● Facilitate communication among team members ● New technologies, availability of information (IT),
● Document, apply systematic approach to Measurement. decreasing resources, increasing chronic disease states
mandate a change.
Root cause analysis: ● consumer dissatisfaction with current system
Process of learning from consequences; ● Rapid turn over of nurses.
● Determine influences, establish linked chains of
influences, determine necessary influences, analyze root
(initial) cause.
● Currently used to analyze errors and mistakes; attempts to
evaluate series of events that may lead to errors (safety
errors) and determine causative reason for error (process),
rather than punitively blame a person.