Ethic:Legal.pdf
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Legal and ethical issues related to drug administration. Kellie Langlois Legal and ethical: Drug Administration â–ª Alzheimer's/ Dementia â–ª Emergency â–ª Unstable psychiatric â–ª Violent â–ª 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 â–ª Alzheimer's/ Dementia â–ª Emergency â–ª Unstable psychiatric â–ª Violent â–ª 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 â–ª Ethically a woman should have the choice to either carry or terminate a pregnancy within â–ª 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 â–ª Other ethical factors to consider would include regardless of the situation or not. Fathers rights or Parents of teenage girls. â–ª 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 â–ª 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 â–ª Every patient should have the same drugs â–ª FDA must pass the drug through 5 stages of available to them as everyone else. testing before approving. â–ª Health insurance should not dictate which â–ª Clinical trials cost millions of dollars. medications you can receive. â–ª Drug approval process takes a very long time. â–ª If you're sick, you should have the best drug on the market that's going to help heal you. â–ª Market drug high to make up what was spent in trials and profit. â–ª Healthcare should be about helping people, not making money.
