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| Steps to Resolve Ethical Dilemma |
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| Ask the questions, gather relevant information, clarify values, verbalize the problem, identify possible courses of action, negotiate a plan, evaluate the plan over time |
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| Four Basic Principles of the Code of Ethics |
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| Responsibility, Accountability, Confidentiality, Advocacy |
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| Measures the value and benefits of certain medical interventions (futile care, cancer therapy & DNR) |
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| Can alert a patient to a condition that may not yet be evident but that is certain to develop in the future. |
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| Interventions unlikely to produce benefit for the patient. |
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| Focuses on understanding relationships, especially personal narratives. |
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| Value is determined by its usefulness; emphasis is on the outcome or consequence of actions. |
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| Steps to Resolving ethical problems |
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| unable to resolve through scientific data review, it's perplexing, the answer will have profound relevance for areas of human concern. |
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