Ethico-moral principles

Discuss how can these ethico-moral principles will be violated by the learners and
educators in the classroom and clinical settings. Provide realistic example in each
principle.

Patients, families and practitioners in healthcare are faced with ethical and
legal decisions day after day. These tough challenges may be medical treatments,
procedures, hospital management and other issues in the health sector. Ethical
problems in the health sector may require immediate reaction, for example when
decision-making is impossible for patients, or a long, carefully considered decision
can be involved, such as discussion of the right to abortion or helped suicide. The
actions taken in ethical issues in healthcare clearly differentiate between good and
wrong, and many of the measures taken today will have long-lasting consequences
on future healthcare.
In healthcare, clinic leaders, health care professionals and patients encounter
numerous ethical challenges. In particular:
Nursing students being used as adjunct staff, nurses having to face frequent
violence in the hospital setting, patient reluctance to receive treatment from nurses,
the near-absence of consent taken from patients for most non-surgical medical
procedures, the absence of patient consent taking for receiving treatment from
student nurses, the practice of patient discrimination on the basis of a patient’s
socio-demographic status, nurses withdrawing treatment out of fear for their safety,
a non-learning culture and, finally, blame-shifting and non-reportage of errors.