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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…
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Moral Theories, Principles of Health Care Ethics, and Professional Ethics Codes Ethics is a branch of philosophy devoted to the study of morality. Ethics has a long history of theories about determining right from wrong and identifying the principles of living a good life. For this assessment, you will be asked to apply foundational principles…
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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…
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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…
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How Institutional Conceptual Frameworks Influence Ethical Decision Making We wrap things up by exploring institutions and groups designed to help ensure that hospital staff at all levels think and act ethically in caring for patients. Accrediting bodies are oversight agencies charged with performing accreditation of hospitals and helping to establish standards for health care delivery.…
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Health care providers today must develop their skills in mitigating risks to their patients and themselves related to patient information. At the same time, they need to be able distinguish between effective and ineffective uses of social media in health care. This assessment will require you to develop a staff update for an interprofessional team…
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Professional goals to achieve What are your desired career advancements goals for the next 12 to 24 months? Structure as a S.M.A.R.T goals. See link below: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-to-write-smart-goals Goal 1. S M A R T Goal 2. S M A R T Competency development Identify the specific competency required to develop or master to achieve your…
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The Nuremberg trials at the close of WWII offered disturbing questions. How can “good” people in traditionally honor-bound professions become complicit in some of the worst violations of humanity in history? What happens when individual professionals are not held to account by their peers, professions, and society as a whole? The trials showed how moral…
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The purpose of this assignment is to critically analyze examples of mistaken correlation versus causation and propose a study design that could be used to gain insights into the relationship in question. Read the “Vitamin D and SARS-CoV2 Infection, Severity and Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” case example related to Vitamin D and COVID-19,…
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Research healthcare issues that have been identified in your local community. Note: you may use the information you discussed in this week’s Collaboration Café. Create a PowerPoint Presentation and address the following requirements: Review Wilensky, S. E., & Teitelbaum, J. B. (2023). Essentials of health policy and law (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Chapter…