Ethical Issues In Health Promotion

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS STATEMENT PART II
IDENTIFICATION OF VALUE - PRIORITIZATION
The health care industry is one industry that needs a great deal of ethical intelligence and tactfulness. Ethics matters a lot in health care as this involves saving the life of people, an act that requires detailed, accurate steps in an environment that seeks to make the patient a central part of treatment process and the physician, a trusted partner in administering the best possible care aimed at the wellbeing of the patient and with the consent of the patient. Ethical issues exist everywhere in the course of providing healthcare services and needs to be dealt with in the most tactful manner.
For me as a future ethical administrator, I am beneficence and social

It brought so much fear and anxiety to nurses and physicians who are directly involved in patient treatment. The disease demands a high level of preparation measures to mitigate possible infection. The unavailability of facilities and unpreparedness to ensure safety is a factor that can cause uncertainties in the health care facilities. The deadly disease generated a lot of panic in health institutions especially because doctors and nurses have a prime responsibility to take care of those who might be affected. Willingness to offer one’s self in treating people who may have contracted the disease was a huge problem because without adequate protection nurses and doctors especially were going to lose their lives in the course of performing their duty. These genuine concerns of nurses and doctors as well as other health workers, is not a ground to neglect their duty but they also have a right to protect themselves against contracting the deadly disease. Physicians have a duty to treat patients who had contracted the disease from some African countries where they worked during the summer or were on vacation. As deadly as the disease is, the infected patients cannot be denied care and treatment even in the face of limited resources in the health care facilities. The lives of the nurses and physicians are therefore at stake as they need to provide service to infected patients

In this case the various players in the case have a right that needs to be upheld (autonomy). Yet these rights will somehow have to be trampled upon in a bid to bring comfort to many others who need to protect themselves against possible infection. The autonomy of the health worker to resist the possibility of getting infected by the contagious disease deserves to be upheld. Above these personal rights there is a need to show concern and save the lives of the infected patients as well as ensure the safety of those who have not been infected. An ideal ethical way of dealing with this is to consider ensuring that actions taken do not cause harm in the long run to individuals and the community at large with doctors, nurses and other health workers inclusive. It will be better to forego the comfort of both travelers and physicians and ensure the disease does not spread in order to guard safety than to allow the fear of physicians, uncertainty and travelers’ feeling of inconvenience to cause possible outbreak of the