Essentially, everyone is in some state of vulnerability. However, some of us are more susceptible to harm due to our vulnerabilities. The susceptible are the individuals with the greatest risk. These individuals risk the loss of their autonomy, and maybe even their lives. Vulnerable populations can be found in every subset of society. However, as previously mentioned, there are some vulnerable populations that are at an even greater risk than others. Such populations may include; but are not limited
Can patients with Alzheimer’s disease participate in clinical research? Theoretically, two radically opposite views regarding this issue can be posited. The first one, which is rather “conservative” could, in principle, argue that because of pervasive cognitive impairments AD patients are vulnerable and not capable of giving informed consent with a similar degree of responsibility as that of healthy individuals. When a surrogate’s decision is required for participation in research, this decision
When dealing with medical research involving human subjects, the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and justice must be satisfied in order for the research to be ethical. The Belmont Report, The Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki, gives us standards intended to assure that research involving human subjects would be carried out in an ethical manner. The Belmont Report applies only to research conducted or funded by the United States, The Nuremberg Code is part of the law of humanity
treat hypertension but if a patient states that they are not receiving relief from pain after several administrations of pain medicine, the caregiver is likely to regard the patient as a pain medicine abuser or a “drug seeker”. Such a response shows the need to develop a framework to address pain management less attached to personal biases and emotion. It is in this context that the basic principles of bioethics can come in to play. The standard principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence
Helsinki were created in order to establish a universal code of ethics for research involving human subjects. Both the Belmont Principle and Declaration of Helsinki emphasize that the well-being of research subjects triumphs over any research goals. Although these documents were created in order to simplify and unify medical ethics, their simplicity allowed for continued debate. In the editorial “The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World,” Marcia Angell argues that the current shift towards
retention presents itself as one of the greatest challenges facing healthcare systems today. According to the American Nursing Association, nursing turnover is a multi-faceted issue which impacts the financial stability of the facility, the quality of patient care and has a direct affect on the other members of the nursing staff (ANA, 2014). The cost to replace a nurse in a healthcare facility ranges between $62,100 to $67,100 (ANA, 2014). The rising problem with nursing retention will intensify the nursing
that the clinical studies are performed on people generates significant ethical debate regarding respect towards those patients. It is interesting to discover that this ethical debate gained significant attention after WWII, during the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, where judgments for those who conducted biomedical experiments on prisoners were determined (The Belmont Report, 3). The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research was created to define
successful work environment. Combining what was observed and what was learnt from the class, there were three particular aspects of professionalism that seemed to be key characteristics of professional nurses: knowledge from continuous education, autonomy, and positivity. Out of all other characteristics for professionalisms in nursing, those three were the most remarkable features found from the some of the great nurses observed from the clinical sites. Potter, Perry, Stockert, and Hall (2015)
A theoretical framework could be elucidated as a structure that can support a theory for a research topic. It describes and introduces the theory by explaining the reasons for the existing research problem (Bauman, 2013). It follows that there is need to develop a theoretical framework for the upcoming research problem. What is the research problem under discussion? The tutelage of health care experts “has not kept pace” with the problem started by the swift demographic revolution, new diseases,
Additionally, by providing the patient information the provider is expanding the patient’s knowledge base, which empowers the patient in making decisions about his/her own care; thus putting the patient in charge of his/her own care plan. Furthermore, these concepts support Watson’s carative factors of being innovative in finding resolutions and providing a transpersonal teaching-learning model of care; whereas the emphasis is on the patient-nurse relationship instead of one unbalanced and struggling