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Discuss this in a paper of 3–4 pages, including the following:
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. Discuss this in a paper of 3–4 pages, including the following:
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:
Ethical Decision Making Resource 1
Ethical Decision Making Resource 2: Click on the Making Ethical Decisions PDF on this ACHE ethics resource page.
Ethical Decision Making Resource 3
References
American College of Healthcare Executives. (2017). About ACHE: Ethics toolkit. Retrieved from http://www.ache.org/abt_ache/EthicsToolkit/ethicsTOC.cfm
Bonde, S., & Firenze. P. (2013, May). A framework for making ethical decisions. Retrieved from https://www.brown.edu/academics/science-and-technology-studies/framework-making-ethical-decisions
Santa Clara University. (2015, August 1). A framework for ethical decision making. Retrieved from https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/a-framework-for-ethical-decision-making/