ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY

Ethics and Technology

Ethics and Technology

Nursing Issue/Dilemma

Nurses normally receive little or no formal training in ethics and law, and therefore are not qualified to address these issues when they encounter them in the clinical setting (Ramsey, 2000). Ethical and legal issues arising from such medical issues as organ donation, end of life care, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and management of patient confidentiality in the age of electronic data management are part of the modern practice of nursing, and there are ethical, legal and regulatory mandates that require knowledge of these subjects in health care workers to enable them to ...