Critical Ethical Issues in Health Care 2

An Appalachian patient in your health care facility wishes to stop treatment for his stage 4 bone cancer. His family is adamant that he continue the treatments. There have been multiple incidents where the family has verbally abused the nursing staff for consenting to the patient’s wishes. You decide to convene the ethics committee.

• Using the ethical decision-making frameworks of your choice, how will you lead this committee?
• Who would you include in the committee?

Review the following resources for more information:

https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/a-framework-for-ethical-decision-making/

https://www.ache.org/about-ache/our-story/our-commitments/ethics/ache-code-of-ethics/creating-an-ethical-culture-within-the-healthcare-organization/ethics-toolkit

https://sts.brown.edu/