A large part of ethics deals with the possibility of differing opinions on an ethical issue or problem. Many healthcare facilities use ethics committees when faced with ethical issues to sort through the different opinions and submit a decision.
Imagine you are part of a nine-member ethics committee at the local hospital. At your committee meeting, the committee is presented with the issue of a patient who has been on life support for the past six months and has not shown any signs of improvement or the ability to survive without life support. The patient has appointes two healthcare surrigates who have opposing opinions on whether to withdraw life support. Answer the following questions:
What are the major ethical issues in this case?
What laws, if any, are applicable to the decsion?
How should the ethics commottee render a decision in this case?
If there are differences of opinion among committee members, how should the committee deal with the differences?
In a 3 page Microsoft Word document, create a report that includes the answers to the above questions.
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format. No plagriem, time romans 12, double space
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Ethics Committee Case Study on Withdrawing Life Support
1. A large part of ethics deals with the possibility of differing
opinions on an ethical issue or problem. Many healthcare
facilities use ethics committees when faced with ethical issues
to sort through the different opinions and submit a decision.
Imagine you are part of a nine-member ethics committee at the
local hospital. At your committee meeting, the committee is
presented with the issue of a patient who has been on life
support for the past six months and has not shown any signs of
improvement or the ability to survive without life support. The
patient has appointes two healthcare surrigates who have
opposing opinions on whether to withdraw life support. Answer
the following questions:
What are the major ethical issues in this case?
What laws, if any, are applicable to the decsion?
How should the ethics commottee render a decision in this case?
If there are differences of opinion among committee members,
how should the committee deal with the differences?
In a 3 page Microsoft Word document, create a report that
includes the answers to the above questions.
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format. No plagriem, time romans 12,
double space
