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Ethics Around the Globe: Project
for Health Care students

Review
the scenario below. Throughout the course, you will be referring to this
scenario, coming up with an appropriate solution, and reflecting on your
thinking process.

Your
82-year-old patient is in kidney failure and requires hemodialysis but this
sort of medical intervention goes against her religious beliefs. Without this
treatment she will certainly die. With the treatment she can expect to live a
relatively normal life for years to come. She has no other diseases or
conditions.

Part 1:

In such
serious situations it is important to have a good foundation for your
perspective. Consider the patients decision to refuse the treatment and
respond to the following:

1. Define the problem
using your own words.

2. What do you think
someone following Kants moral perspective would say about the patients
decision?

3. How do you feel about
this patients decision? Should patients have the right to refuse reasonable
treatment?

Your
assignment should be 1-2 pages and in APA format.

Part 2:

In the
first part of this project you defined the problem outlined in the scenario.
Now you will consider possible solutions based on different ethical
perspectives.

1. What would someone do
from the perspective of Aristotles virtue based ethics? Explain why.

2. What would someone do
from the Buddhist ethical perspective? Explain why.

3. What would you do in
this situation? Why?

Your
assignment should be 1-2 pages in APA format.

Part 3:

In
providing healthcare to individuals you will encounter many different
perspectives and some you will disagree with. Specifically, you will encounter
patients and their family members who will have different opinions about what
they should to for their own or a loved ones wellbeing.

1. Consider the idea of
pluralism. How would you balance your own belief in what was good for the
patient with his or her own wishes?

2. Reflect on your
responses in the previous parts of this project and the other theories covered
in this course. Of all of the theories covered in the course which one most
closely matches your own ethical perspective on this issue? Explain your
stance.

3. Now, consider a new
patient. This patient is being treated for a life threatening illness. The patients
family wishes that treatment be stopped. But, you feel that the patient has a
chance of recovery if treatment continues. What would you do? Use the theory
you chose in response to the previous question to respond/frame your response
to this question.

Your responses to these
questions should total 3-4 pages and be in APA format.