Module 4

Section 1

Discuss Radio, IT, and Electronic Safety

Introduction

It is generally believed that the advancement in the field of medical sciences will enhance the efficiency, quality, cost and safety of health care services. The role of IT for instance has helped in storing electronic information and records of patients that facilitate the health care providers in clinical decision making. The clinical decision support has the prospective to help health care providers provide safe and effective care.  With improper implementation and planning of technology in clinical settings, adverse effects and outcomes can be produced on patient's health.

Discussion

Clinicians at present are focused on how to provide proficient care and services to patients. It is believed that embedding technology in the field of medicine and health care could provide effective and affluent results in patient care. With the implementation of technology, it is important to consider the potential risks and preventable adverse events so to avoid any undesired adverse outcomes (Jocelyne-Charles et.al.2005). This is because any potential risk or threat due to technology embedded in clinical practice can have an adverse effect on patients' health. The radio frequencies for instance could have strong negative impact on the health of a patient. The safety is compromised due to unplanned and improper implementation of the technology in clinical practices (Powell-Cope, 2008).

Conclusion

The technology has the potential to improve the care provided to patients. Improper planning of technology when embedded in clinical practices can yield adverse outcomes. This might have a strong negative impact on patient health and compromise patient's safety.

1.2. A Decision You Made Yesterday Concerning a Family Is Now Headline News in Today's Katherine Times - Why Is This Test for Your Ethics

Introduction

In clinical decision making, the role of ethics is very important and crucial. The practitioner has to respect the patient's decision, clinical background and the situation under which he has to make a decision for the patient. Euthanasia, for example, is a difficult decision that a practitioner has to make on patient's part. The decision involves around the termination of life support provided to a patient in clinical settings to keep him alive in the midst of his chronic health conditions.

Discussion

In the clinical practices, there are times when the practitioners and health care providers have to make decisions on behalf of patients. These decisions can involve ethical factors that could lead to critical and conflicting issue. It is made to provide relief to the patient in cases where there is no hope of improvement in the health of the patient. Euthanasia is a process to end life of a sufferer in a decent manner to relief him from his pain is ethically justifiable method of shared decision making that involves the practitioner and the terminally ill patient (Gastmans, 2004).

The patient, under the provided case, was suffering from chronic lung cancer where chances of survival were very low. A few members of his family agreed upon the decision of performing euthanasia while others thought that it was religiously wrong. Being a nurse, it was our ...