Essays on Lachman

Nurses are useful people in the society who help in improving people’s health. At some points, nurses find themselves in difficult situations that require informed decisions. In most cases, the situations they encounter in their line of duty are against their moral or professional morals, but they have to do what is right at that given time, so as to save the life of a patient without necessarily regarding what their morals dictate about such situations. Therefore, in nursing profession, there are ethical dilemmas that nurses encounter, which will determine their roles to endorse the health of the ...

The definition of midlife is literally a point at the middle of a person’s life. ‘The concept of ‘crisis’, in mid-life and at other times, implies a rapid or substantial change in personality, which is dislocating with respect to one’s sense of identity (Freund & Ritter, 2009, p. 583). Thus, the best definition of midlife crisis is a sense of crisis situation that one experiences around middle age driven by a sense of diminishing youth and the loss that accompanies this. The question really arises about the validity and existence of the Midlife Crisis. The essay will delve ...

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The healthcare industry in these countries identify nurses as one of the groups with the largest number of healthcare professionals. This proves that their roles are one of the most important when executing euthanasia, as proven in many studies that identify nurses as directly involved in the processing of euthanasia. This however, raises questions about the nurses’ attitudes and opinions towards practicing euthanasia. There is a need to question their opinions and beliefs regarding euthanasia and their role in the administering of lethal drugs. If they are not confident with what they do, they may experience fear, which may ...

The remarkable popularity of social media websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and alike, create new challenges specific to the digital communication sphere. As these websites engage physical and juridical users who share various information for the purpose of informing their followers or keeping in touch with peers, the activity of sharing implies the threat of confidentiality breach. Confidentiality is a major ethical issue that organizations are vulnerable to nowadays, in the advent of social media explosion (Lachman, 2013). I chose to focus on the violation of confidentiality due to social media activity, because many organizations are not ...

The Ethical and Legalities of Medication Disclosure Error

In nursing, it is quite uncommon that patients are sometimes exposed to risks of particular harms. Such harms may be erroneous and unintentional. The errors in a sense may be unpredictable and a proper informed consent may not be easily obtained. Some prescription errors might not necessarily materialize to harm while others could be fatal. This paper is going to look into the ethical and legalities of prescription disclosure error by a nurse and the proper way to write a prescription while minimizing the possibility of a nurse running into an error. When an error occurs during the process ...

Many nurses are placed in situations where their moral beliefs are in total or partial conflict with the policy of the facility that employs them. One such situation arose when a young woman received head trauma resulting in cessation of significant brain activity. She did not leave advance directives and her family’s religion prevented discontinuation of life support. All health care professionals involved agreed that there was no hope for recovery and did not want to be forced to attempt revival measures in the case of cardiac arrest. Meetings with the staff, religious consult, the family, and hospital ...

Both institutional and organizational ethics are increasingly becoming vital in shaping professional conduct within the health care system. This paper discusses ways in which organizations address ethical issues through a comparison of the American Nurses Association (ANA) to Select Specialty Hospital. The Select Specialty Hospital is a renowned 47-bed capacity acute-care hospital in Miami. As one of the best facilities of its kind within the Miami area, Select Specialty places emphasis on the delivery of quality health care. They use a rather customized treatment plan for every admission case to prevent the development of an ethical related issue (Select ...

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Analyze the bioethical issues found within the scenario It has to be noted that Matt’s case presents a controversial ethical and legal situation that has a potential to affect the medical facility, its workers, as well as the family members. There are several bioethical issues involved in the case. First of all, there is a disagreement between the desire of a family to resuscitate their son and the judgment of the physician not to proceed with this procedure due to the low chances that the patient will eventually wake up. Secondly, the nurse finds it morally difficult to ...

In our day to day life, it is easy to see individuals who have found ways to cheat the system, and claim social welfare sources that are above and beyond that which they are entitled to, or who find ways to misappropriate the funds that they are given, and we are incensed by the waste of public dollars. However, in contrast we rarely get to see the results of corporate welfare, provided through government subsidies, or how the use of those funds are abused. In reality, though public disgust of corporate subsidies is far less prominent, they cost tax ...

Lachman, M. E. (2004). Development in midlife. Annu. Rev. Psychol., 55, 305-331. In this article, based on the analysis of contemporary foreign and domestic philosophical, sociological and psychological literature have been considered theoretical interpretation and empirically recorded phenomenology "midlife crisis / mid-life." Author used the method of biographical interviews and have shown the common strategy for coping with the crisis, the dependence of its manifestations on the type of self-identity and gender of the respondent. The author rightly suggested that the crisis could be caused by the coincidence in time of several adverse events related to deviant factors: divorce, ...

Human Behavior – Development in Midlife Lachman’s (Lachman’s, 2004)

The purpose of the author is to summarize the findings relating to salient issues and themes of midlife such as physical and psychological changes brought by aging, and the balance between work ad family responsibilities. This objective arises from addressing the need to explore midlife developments considering the large demographic shifts in the population. In order to accomplish this, the author reviewed previous studies and summarized the findings from the reviewed research. Furthermore, the concept was highlighted in the article using conceptual frameworks encompassing the study of multiple patterns of changes in midlife. Conclusively, the author was able to ...

Ethical problem

Stacy (2012) reviewed a case study of an irreversible case of pneumococcal pneumonia who had become mechanical ventilator support dependent. The male patient had decided to be removed from the ventilator and allowed to die with full knowledge of his irreversible condition and the eventual death that will come upon him after all life-maintaining support were removed. Although the family did not agree on the removal of the life-support treatment, they acceded to the wish of their father and approved the gradual removal of the ventilator referred to as terminal weaning. This case, unlike most controversial cases that leads ...

This paper is going to discuss the European sovereign debt crisis of 2010 to date, and especially the crisis that hit two particular governments in the sovereignty, Greece and Ireland. The two governments have recently received bailouts, or financial support from the EU/ IMF following the two nation’s financial crisis of 2010. The two countries had similarities in regards to the support owing to the fact that the two states had troubles with their government finances. The causes of the troubles, in addition to the terms of the support received by each nation, and the prospects of the ...