IMPORTANCE OF BIOETHICS AS STUDENT AND HOW DOES IT AFFECTS YOU AS A

MIDWIFE?
Bioethics is a discipline that has gained great relevance in today's world
Changes in health care, advances in technology and science are giving hope to life,
however they are also causing ethic conflicts. Patients are at risk of losing their
own right to live or die. Healthcare professionals are meant to deliver care, but
also to protect the rights and the quality of life of the patients. As more and more
people have recognized the importance of bioethics, ethic committees have
sprung up in many healthcare settings. Continuing education programs on ethical
principles and ethical decision/making models are critical. Midwives play an
important role, they bridge the gap between the needs of individual patients and
the healthcare system. They have a very close contact with the patients. Midwives
have the ability to recognize moral problems as actual or potential conflicts in
rights, duties or principles, and to take appropriate action to resolve the ethical
issue.
Since then, it has aided in the transformation of medical practice and
effective decision on a wide range of topics relating to the living sciences, ranging
from public health and medical care delivery to agriculture biotechnology.
Bioethics has its own set of rules, and the major rules of bioethics apply to
midwifery. All helping professions must adhere to the principles beneficence
which is benefiting of others and nonmaleficence (doing no harm). Midwives on
the other hand, employ an ethics to caring to practice these, as well as fairness,
variety, dignity, and autonomy.
The significance or importance of bioethics to us student specially in our
enrolled course which is midwifery is that bioethics teaches us how to cope with
our patients specifically their trust. Midwives examine with others while applying
bioethical principles. When a student or midwives faces an ethical issue, she
examines not only bioethical principles, but also the impact of ethical decisions on
his/her client, the client’s family, the midwifes practice, and her co-workers,
workplace, and community. When dealing with others, or non-clients, such as
other, midwives, physicians, and alternative care providers, the same relational
and compassionate ethics should be employed. In addition, midwives generally
form close bonds with the moms they assist and consider themselves as partners
in their care. Midwifery ethics, which are often abstract and devoid of
relationships, are not well suited to midwifery practice. A model for midwifery
that may suited or reflected the midwives’ model of care is needed.