1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues of the healthcare professional

1. 1.04Understand legal and ethical issues of the healthcare professional

2. Importance for the healthcare professional to understand legal and ethical issues • Knowledge of legal responsibilities • Limitations of practice • Implications of their actions 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

3. Importance for the healthcare professional to understand legal and ethical issues • Protection of • Healthcare professionals • Patients • Co-workers • Facility 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

4. Importance for the healthcare professional to understand legal and ethical issues • Ethical behavior ensures • Quality patient care • Positive work relationships • Well-managed workplace 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

5. Legal and ethical dilemmas encountered by healthcare professionals 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

6. Legal and Ethical DilemmasAbortion • Termination of a pregnancy • Spontaneous • Induced Abortion is legal. What are the ethical issues? 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

7. Abortion • Possible ethical issues/topics for discussion on abortion: • Comparative rights – does the fetus have the same rights to life as the mom has to determine her future? • Question of personhood – when does a baby’s personhood begin? At conception or the day of birth? 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

8. Abortion • Sanctity of human life – do we believe that all human life is sacred, and, thus, that the direct and intentional taking of an innocent human life is a proper act? • Abortion from a utilitarian perspective: The question is not can the fetus reason or talk, but can they suffer? 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

9. Legal and Ethical DilemmasEnd of life 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

10. Legal and Ethical DilemmasEuthanasia (mercy killing) Assisted The act of ending the life of an individual in a painless manner. Individual is usually suffering from a terminal illness. Involuntary Voluntary 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

11. Euthanasia • Types of Euthanasia • Voluntary – by consent of the individual (patient) • Involuntary – another person makes a decision for the individual • Assisted – another person provides information, guidance, means to end life 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

12. Legal and Ethical DilemmasAdvanced Directives • Legal documents that allow the patient to state the end of life treatments they would or would not want, in the event that they become unable to make those decisions. 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

13. Legal and Ethical DilemmasLiving Will • Patient’s document that states specific measures to be taken or not taken to prolong life. • Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) • Hydration • Medication 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

14. Legal and Ethical IssuesPower of Attorney • Document that names the person that will make healthcare decisions for the patient that is unable to do so. 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

15. Legal and Ethical DilemmasOrgan Donation The removal of healthy tissues from one person for the purpose of transplanting them into another person. Donor can be living or recently deceased. 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

16. The following organs/tissues can be donated/transplanted: • Heart Tendons • Intestines Corneas • Lungs Heart Valves • Liver Bone Marrow • Pancreas Veins • Bones Skin 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues

17. Legal and Ethical DilemmasResearch and Experimental Treatment • Healthcare research seeks to develop treatments for a disease process, or to establish new knowledge for health and wellness maintenance. • AIDS • Stem Cell • Cancer Research 1.04 Understand legal and ethical issues