Patient’s Ethical Rights 1 In theory, once one understood the right, one should be able to reason ou

Patient’s Ethical Rights

1 In theory, once one understood the right, one should be
able to reason out the correlative obligations

a List at least two obligations to each of the items found
in A Patient’s Bill of Rights

b Which of the included patient’s rights are currently
provided in the sanction of law?

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1 Given that rights have dominated several healthcare
debates, how would you define rights as a healthcare provider and why?

2 What are the consequences of your definition?

3 What type of patient-provider model would best
accommodate your definition of rights?

4 If rights also produce obligations – how can both
patients and providers claim professional or personal rights over the same
issue?

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3 In the following three cases, indicate whether you think
it would be justified to overcome the autonomy of the patient under the
principle of beneficence and why

1 In the intensive care unit, you are working on a patient
in a very unstable state The woman and her children (who were all killed) had
been in an accident It is clear that further emotional trauma would be
disastrous to the patient and may cause her death In a lucid moment, she looks
at you and asks, “How are my children?” Is this an instance when
therapeutic privilege seems reasonable? Whether you decide yes or no to the
therapeutic privilege question, write a sentence that you think would be the most
appropriate answer for the patient

2 You are working late and you enter the patient’s room to
find that she has climbed out on the window ledge She appears to be crying and
tells you to leave her alone

3 Your elderly patient hates to have the bed rails up and
tells you to leave them down