Assignment

Assignment



Assignment

1- The American Correctional Association demands from its members constant honesty, respect for the self-respect and individuality of human beings and a commitment to professional and concerned service.

2 -If a nurse in a nursing home dispenses medication to elderly patients. The home is shorthanded & although the existing staff is well-organized there is such a insist on their time that they have difficulty in responsibility a quality job. The nursing supervisor frequently orders the nurse to give the patients unperceived tranquilizers to keep them quiet & docile. This allows staff to attend to critical needs.

Codes of ethics are controversial documents. Some medical experts have suggested that codes of professional ethics are pointless and unnecessary. Many others believe that codes are useful and important, but disagree about why. IIT's Center for the Study of Ethics in the medical profession is committed to the importance of codes of ethics, and we have undertaken the Online Ethics Codes Project in order to enhance access to a very wide variety of codes. Why are we so committed to this project? (Davis.1991)

Nurses may help the patients of these documents to understand something about the debate surrounding codes of ethics. At one end of the spectrum, John Ladd has argued that codes of ethics serve no good purpose whatever. Ladd argues that ethics should be open-ended and reflective, and that relying on a code of ethics is to confuse ethics with law. He further asserts that it is mistaken to assume that there is a special ethics for professionals which is separate from the ethics of patients within a moral society. Professionals, he suggests, have no special rights or duties separate from their rights and duties as moral persons, and therefore codes of ethics are pointless and possibly pernicious.

A different sort of attack on the ...