Legal and Ethical Issues in Drug Administration PDF

Legal and ethical issues related to drug administration. Kellie Langlois Legal and ethical: Drug Administration ▪ Alzheimer's/ Dementia ▪ Emergency ▪ Unstable psychiatric ▪ Violent ▪ Unconscious or intubated Medicating a patient without consent or conformation seems like a cut and dry topic. Ethi...

Legal and ethical issues related to drug administration. Kellie Langlois Legal and ethical: Drug Administration ▪ Alzheimer's/ Dementia ▪ Emergency ▪ Unstable psychiatric ▪ Violent ▪ Unconscious or intubated Medicating a patient without consent or conformation seems like a cut and dry topic. Ethically if a patient refuses medicine, you will try to advise them of the risks and benefits but know that it's ultimately their choice. However, some of the situations listed above pose a deeper look. Legally a Physician is required by licenses and code of ethics to provide the best care possible to their patients. If a patient is in any of these situations what is the provider to do ?  Abortion Ethical- My body. My choice. Legal ▪ Ethically a woman should have the choice to either carry or terminate a pregnancy within ▪ In the United States the government has allowed her own body. There are many factors that each state to decide for themselves whether would bring a woman to have to make the abortion is legal, or illegal. Meaning, each choice for medically induced abortion. individual state has decided if a woman is mandated to carry out the pregnancy full term ▪ Other ethical factors to consider would include regardless of the situation or not. Fathers rights or Parents of teenage girls. ▪ These laws are forcing some women to travel across state lines to receive medication for the -Age abortion if they can afford to do so. -Sexual Assault ▪ In some situations, many women cannot -Medical condition- mother afford the medication through a physician's -Medical condition- Fetus office and are getting medication from unreliable -Unprepared- Life circumstances sources or opting for different routes and -Disinterest potentially harming themselves more. Pharmaceutical development & disbursement. Ethical Legal ▪ Every patient should have the same drugs ▪ FDA must pass the drug through 5 stages of available to them as everyone else. testing before approving. ▪ Health insurance should not dictate which ▪ Clinical trials cost millions of dollars. medications you can receive. ▪ Drug approval process takes a very long time. ▪ If you're sick, you should have the best drug on the market that's going to help heal you. ▪ Market drug high to make up what was spent in trials and profit. ▪ Healthcare should be about helping people, not making money.