ethics in healthcare

Ethics in Healthcare
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Healthcare is a vital sector of the economy with society’s well-being being its priority. The sector faces many situations that can be termed to be dilemmatic to the healthcare providers. There are many issues surrounding moral, legal and ethical considerations inculcate in the society. Handling clients can be challenging when delivering services and working within the latter boundaries. Although the task vested to the healthcare providers is hard, they ought to apply critical thinking in their interactions with the clients. They take up the challenge through offering the best guidance which makes the clients satisfied with the services they are given. Such situations tend to raise the alarm on the role of ethics in the sector. Health professions are called to perform ethically in their duties through principles such as utilitarianism. Such a principle assists them to overcome the dilemmas they face. The paper focuses on the ethical measures in the healthcare sector as well as the procedures taken in cases considered dilemmatic.
Keywords: Healthcare, ethical issues, healthcare providers
Ethics in Healthcare
Aita, M., & Richer, M. C. (2013). Essentials of research ethics for healthcare professionals. Nursing & health sciences, 7(2), 119-125.
Research has been conducted to validate the models that adjudicate for ethical considerations in the healthcare sector. In the course of drastic efforts to verify which are the standard positions that healthcare providers should take when researching with human subjects.

In this research, a study is conducted in a university thus raising ethical issues directed to the healthcare professionals. Prior knowledge of the ethical theories that form the foundation for ethics in healthcare should be sensitized to researchers. The study raises the alarm on the dilemmas researchers face when researching. Most of them are not aware of the ethical principles to uphold when dealing with human subjects and also the contents of an ethical study. The study gives an analysis of the ethical theories on researching with human subjects including elements of a study such as research design and methods which are ethically acceptable.
Bulger, R. E., Heitman, E., & Reiser, S. J. (Eds.). (2015). The ethical dimensions of the biological and health sciences. Cambridge University Press.
Ethical issues also arise during the research in the healthcare field with dilemmas on how to sort out some ethical issues arising from their work which negatively impacts on the training process to healthcare professionals. Misconduct in research also forms the basis of ethical issues in healthcare with questions raised on how they research human and animal subjects in their studies. With the recent developments in the healthcare sector, there need to be standards that are based on ethics upheld even by researchers. The paper also focuses on measures researchers can take to build public trust on their activities as well as reflecting on the traditions that govern the healthcare sector. The study is important in building the research on ethics in healthcare.
Galanakis, E., Jansen, A., Lopalco, P. L., & Giesecke, J. (2013). Ethics of mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers. Euro Surveill, 18(45), 20627.
Maintaining morals in the healthcare sectors is quite a task to the healthcare providers. The paper scrutinizes the phenomenon of moral distress on its impact on healthcare professionals. The research is important to the study of ethics in healthcare as it provides the basis of exploring the standard measure of monitoring the level of moral distress among professions and other healthcare settings. The research is designed in a descriptive nature of the impact of the phenomenon to the entire healthcare system thus suitable in studying ethics in healthcare.
Pellegrino, E. D. (1995). Toward a virtue-based normative ethics for the health professions. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 5(3), 253-277.
Ethics are founded on the people’s virtues which continuously form ethics. Virtues are fundamental elements in the history of ethics which act as moral agents in the society’s moral life. Virtues were considered right if they were philosophical good. The current system has alienated the importance of virtues, especially in the general and healthcare ethics. It is significant to raise the alarm on the reconstruction of these ethics in the healthcare professions to reduce the cases of dilemmas on what is morally right or wrong. The paper suits the study of ethics since it combines the elements normative virtues and ethical theories in the healthcare sector.
Runciman, B., & Walton, M. (2013). Safety and ethics in healthcare: a guide to getting it right. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Safety is one of the priorities in many industries even the highly standardized and largely automated ones such as the aircraft and power extraction industries. The case applies to the health sector. Although it has few mitigating elements to cause a commotion in service providence since most of its types of equipment are diverse with services offered to people in a personalized manner. Handling human life is supposed to be with great care since it’s vulnerable to errors which can cause loss of life. The paper is significant to the study of ethics in healthcare since it gives insights on measures considered delicate in the healthcare providence.
References
Aita, M., & Richer, M. C. (2013). Essentials of research ethics for healthcare professionals. Nursing & health sciences, 7(2), 119-125.
Bulger, R. E., Heitman, E., & Reiser, S. J. (Eds.). (2015). The ethical dimensions of the biological and health sciences. Cambridge University Press.
Galanakis, E., Jansen, A., Lopalco, P. L., & Giesecke, J. (2013). Ethics of mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers. Euro Surveill, 18(45), 20627.
Pellegrino, E. D. (1995). Toward a virtue-based normative ethics for the health professions. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 5(3), 253-277.
Runciman, B., & Walton, M. (2013). Safety and ethics in healthcare: a guide to getting it right. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..