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A 3 page paper written from the perspective of weighing options in practicing on the newly dead (intubation, subclavian line insertion, other procedures). The ethics committee will be meeting to determine policy after several instances of premature activity; the purpose here is to suggest an ethical policy. The paper uses the philosophies of Kant and Mill to conclude that the policy should take the form of allowing practice on the newly dead, but only after receiving permission from the nurse assigned to the case at the time of death. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSnursEthNewlyDead.rtf
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The ethics committee will be meeting to determine policy on practicing on the newly dead. The purpose here is to suggest an ethical policy. Philosophical Base
The philosophies of Kant, Mill and Rawls are particularly applicable to the teaching of ethics in nursing. Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should
act from the "categorical imperative." That is to say that they should decide on what action to take as though they could, through their will, cause their actions to
become universal law. In ethics of choice, Kantian philosophy dictates that intention or consequences can affect the moral and ethical decisions of individuals.
According to Kant, man may incorporate personal and sometimes selfish considerations into the process of ethical determinations, but this does not negate the moral applications of these choices.
These same theories call into to question whether the effects of moral choices, whether good or not, are considered good simply because of the intention of the individual making the
determination. In short, intent carries greater weight than does outcome. John Stuart Mill built on Kants utilitarianism, carrying it further to conclude
that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arises from Mills philosophy.
In the case of nursing, the "many" refers to patients; the "few" (or one) to the nurse. It is the patients good that the nurse must always keep in
mind. In recent years, some US politicians have tried to incorporate the philosophy of John Rawls into US public policy. Rawls developed
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