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Write a paper that examines the moral and ethical considerations of organ conscription policies and theories. Scarcity of Medical Resources For this assessment, you will continue your survey of ethical principles in health care. Especially in our contemporary world, where needs for health care outstrip available resources, we regularly face decisions about who should get which resources. There is a serious shortage of donor organs. Need vastly outstrips supply, due not only to medical advances related to organ transplantation, but also because not enough people consent to be cadaveric donors (an organ donor who has already died). Munson (2014) points out that in the United States, approximately 10,000 patients die each year because an organ donor was not available, which is three times the number of people killed in the terrorist attacks on 9/11. But what is an efficient and morally sound solution to this problem? The policy of presumed consent, where enacted, has scarcely increased supply, and other alternatives, such as allowing donors to sell their organs, raise strong moral objections. In light of this, some have advocated for a policy of conscription of cadaveric organs (Spital & Erin, 2002). This involves removing organs from the recently deceased without first obtaining consent of the donor or his or her family. Proponents of this policy argue that conscription would not only vastly increase the number of available organs, and hence save many lives, but that it is also more efficient and less costly than policies requiring prior consent. Finally, because with a conscription policy all people would share the burden of providing organs after death and all would stand to benefit should the need arise, the policy is fair and just. Demonstration of Proficiency By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: · Competency 1: Articulate ethical issues in health care. o Articulate the moral concerns surrounding a policy of organ conscription. o Articulate questions about the fairness and justness of organ conscription policy. o Explain the relevance and significance of the concept of consent as it pertains to organ donation. o Evaluate alternative policies for increasing available donor organs. · Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with health care professionals. o Exhibit proficiency in clear and effective academic writing skills. References Munson, R. (2014). Intervention and reflection: Basic issues in bioethics (concise ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth. Spital, A., & Erin, C. (2002). Conscription of cadaveric organs for transplantation: Let’s at least talk about it. American Journal of Kidney Disease, 39(3), 611–615. Instructions Do you consider the policy of organ conscription to be morally sound? Write a paper that answers this question, defending that answer with cogent moral reasoning and supporting your view with ethical theories or moral principles you take to be most relevant to the issue. Be sure to weave and cite the resources throughout your work. In your paper, address the following: · On what grounds could one argue that consent is not ethically required for conscription of cadaveric organs? And on what grounds could one argue that consent is required? · Is the policy truly just and fair, as supporters claim? Explain. · Do you consider one of the alternative policies for increasing available donor organs that Munson discusses to be preferable to conscription? Explain why or why not.
Write a paper that explains and defends your view on the issue of whether or not patients with no other treatment options have a moral right to unproven drugs. Introduction Many doctors, nurses, medical technicians, and other health care workers are involved in medical research. The field of medicine is not limited to the direct treatment of patients but also involves the continued expansion of medical research. A large part of such research is clinical research, which puts patients into the role of experimental subjects. This raises a number of challenging questions for health care ethics, many of which follow from the fact that physicians, nurses, and others involved in clinical research have a dual role. As researchers, they are committed to generating new knowledge about diseases, developing new treatments and drug therapies, and, in general, helping to improve the welfare of human beings by eliminating or controlling diseases and increasing longevity. However, researchers involved in clinical research must also be committed to the highest quality care for individual patients taking part in research studies. This assessment explores some of the ethical issues that clinical research raises and some of the safeguards in place to protect the interests of patients involved in research. Demonstration of Proficiency By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria: · Competency 1: Articulate ethical issues in health care. o Explain how the principle of informed consent is relevant to these issues. o Explain the costs and benefits of offering unapproved experimental drugs to patients. · Competency 2: Apply sound ethical thinking related to a health care issue. o Identify relevant ethical theories and moral principles. o Articulate arguments using examples for and against offering pre-approved drugs to wider pools of patients. · Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with health care professionals. o Exhibit proficiency in clear and effective academic writing skills. Preparation When a new drug is undergoing clinical trials to be approved for treatment, it must pass through a number of distinct phases of testing. These phases require rigorous study and evidence to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of new treatments. Passing through these phases and achieving approval takes many years for some trials. Before approval, patients not part of a clinical trial have limited or no access to experimental drugs, even though these drugs could be helpful and potentially save their lives. There are various groups pushing for greater patient access to drugs still in the experimental stage. In recent years, the FDA has made it somewhat easier to receive treatment with experimental drugs, but according to advocacy groups there are still too many restrictions (Munson, 2014). This leads to a potential quandary when early stages of research on a drug sometimes suggest that the drug could be effective in treating a certain disease. On one hand, offering easier access to early stage trial drugs could help individuals suffering with a medical condition. However, on the other hand, making early access to experimental drugs easier could limit the pool of patients available to participate in clinical trials that establish whether or not the drug is truly effective and safe. This is an important consideration, as the vast majority of experimental drugs turn out to be completely ineffective or could have very dangerous side effects that will only show up over time and across a wider test population. When completing this assessment, it is important to keep in mind the ethical arguments that are relevant to both views regarding the right to experimental drugs. It may be useful to review the suggested resources and conduct additional independent research while you are planning your assessment submission. Instructions Do patients with no other treatment options have a moral right to unproven drugs? Write a paper that explains and defends your view on this issue. Be sure to weave and cite the resources throughout your work. In your paper, address the following points: · Identify relevant ethical theories and moral principles. · Explain how the principle of informed consent is relevant to the issue. · Explain the costs and benefits of making unproven, unapproved experimental drugs widely available to patients. Consider the costs and benefits not only to the individual patients who take these drugs but also potential costs and benefits to other patients. · Explain arguments using examples for and against offering pre-approved drugs to wider pools of patients. · Support your view using ethical theories or moral principles (or both) that you find most relevant to the issue. Additional Requirements · Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
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Write a critical review of one of the articles listed below. The main theme of the review paper is “Why is art important for children?” Read the article and include the following: -What is the article about? (give specific details that serve to illustrate the author’s argument) – What is the purpose of the article? -What are the author’s intentions and scope of the article? -What is the author questioning or revealing? Additional detail that should be added but not limited to: • What is the impact of art in children’s lives? • Why children create artwork? • What was did educators use to inspire creativity? • Explain in depth the realities, principles (if applicable) used in the article, why was this significant in a child’s development. • How does culture influence children’s drawings?
Write a paper that examines the moral and ethical issues involved in making a decision regarding limiting life support. End-of-Life Issues With our framework of ethical theories and principles in hand, we begin our look at some of the critical ethical issues in our contemporary world, starting with end-of-life issues. This assessment covers ethical questions related to end-of-life care. Passive euthanasia is the removal or refusal of life-sustaining treatment. Examples of passive euthanasia include removal of a feeding tube or a ventilator, or forgoing a life-prolonging surgery. Passive euthanasia is legal in all 50 states, and the principle of autonomy gives informed patients the right to refuse any and all treatments. Patients who are unable to make such decisions in the moment (because they are unconscious, for example) might have made their intentions clear beforehand with an advance directive or similar document. Things become more complicated, however, when a patient who is unable to make treatment choices has not made his or her wishes clear, either formally in a written document, or informally in conversations with family members or friends. Another problem concerns cases in which there is disagreement about whether the treatment is sustaining the life of a person in the full sense or merely as a body that, because of severe and irreversible brain trauma, is no longer truly a living person. Active euthanasia, or assisted suicide, introduces further difficult moral questions. A patient who has a terminal illness and who has refused treatments that would merely prolong a potentially very painful and debilitating death might want the process of dying to be hastened and made less painful. The patient might want to take his or her own life before the disease reaches its horrible final stages. Should patients be legally allowed to have help in this endeavor? If suicide itself is not morally wrong, at least in cases like these, is it wrong for another person to directly help bring about the patient’s death? Is it wrong for doctors, a role we naturally associate with healing and the promotion of life, to use their medical expertise to deliberately end a patient’s life if the patient wants this? Demonstration of Proficiency By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria: · Competency 1: Articulate ethical issues in health care. o Articulate the moral issues associated with limiting life support. · Competency 2: Apply sound ethical thinking related to a health care issue. o Demonstrate sound ethical thinking and relevant ethical principles when considering limiting life support. o Explain important considerations that arise when contemplating limiting life support. · Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and is consistent with health care professionals. o Exhibit proficiency in clear and effective academic writing skills. Preparation · Case Study: Mr. Martinez. Mr. Martinez was a seventy-five-year-old chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patient. He was in the hospital because of an upper respiratory tract infection. He and his wife had requested that CPR not be performed should he require it. A DNR order was written in the charts. In his room on the third floor, he was being maintained with antibiotics, fluids, and oxygen and seemed to be doing better. However, Mr. Martinez’s oxygen was inadvertently turned up, and this caused him to go into respiratory failure. When found by the therapist, he was in terrible distress and lay gasping in his bed. This media piece provides the context for this assessment; make sure you have reviewed the case study thoroughly. Additionally, it may be useful to think through the following issues as they relate to Mr. Martinez’s case: · Should Mr. Martinez be transferred to intensive care, where his respiratory failure can be treated by a ventilator, and by CPR if necessary, and his oxygen level can be monitored? o What are the key ethical issues or models at play in this case study? o What are the key end-of-life issues at play in this case study? o How can an understanding of models and best-practice help to guide health care practitioners to make ethical and legal decisions? Instructions In a 2–3 page analysis of the case study, address the following: · The patient’s directives. · The patient’s quality of life. · The family’s stated preferences. · The moral issues associated with limiting life support. · The ethical principles most relevant to reaching an ethically sound decision. · Important considerations such as implications, justifications, and any conflicts of interest that might arise because of the patient’s respiratory failure. When writing your assessment submission assume that doctors cannot contact Mrs. Martinez and must make this choice on their own.
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1. In making decisions, how many percent (100 as highest) do you use from Ethical Relativism, Ethical Absolutism, Ethical Egoism, and Ethical Altruism? 2. In deciding what action to pursue, how many percent (100 as highest) do you use from Ethical Relativism, Ethical Absolutism, Ethical Egoism, and Ethical Altruism? 3. In your experiences in making decisions, which ethical theory do you lean towards most of the time? Are you a relativist, absolutist, egoist, altruist? 4. Do Objects of Desire and Objects of Aversions play a role in your decision making and performing an action? 5. Are you always caught in a “Fallacy of Contradiction” when weighing your options? 6. What are the things you consider before and during making decisions and taking an action?
For detailed information regarding outlines, introductions, thesis statements, and an APA references list, visit the Ashford Writing Center. Review the assignment instructions for the Final Paper in Week Five. Submit an outline for your Final Paper that includes the following: Develop an introduction with a thesis statement for the Final Paper. Create an outline of the major headings with a two- to three-sentence description of what you will discuss under each heading.
