Essay

Looking at the international healthcare environment of today, practitioners face a multitude of ethical issues (Pesut et al. 2019). In context, it is their responsibility to develop a code of conduct and ethics of all participants in organizations and health institutions. There is a need to put this into action and ensure the healthcare environment has integrity in service provision (Pesut et al. 2019).

In this paper, I will discuss Euthanasia as an ethical issue that is prominent at the business level and most in the health sector workplace. As we all know that medical centers aim at saving lives (Pesut et al. 2019). However, in some cases treatment or lack there of could aim to end someone’s life. In most cases, it is referred to as involuntary euthanasia. According to Storer, 2017, author of Euthanasia and the Law, Euthanasia "practice of ending a life to release one from suffering from disease or intolerable suffering." In my point of view, this an issue, and it should be surrounded by strict procedures and laws on how it is used (Storer, 2017).

Theories surrounding these ethical issues in the healthcare outlook are Utilitarianism and Kantian Application ethical theories (Storer, 2017). The methods highlight how it is ethical for someone who is under treatment to terminate his or her life and get relieved from pain through voluntary euthanasia. Which is agreed upon by the patients family to seek physician-assited suicide. In this matter, death is inevitable, and their suffering is in vain (Pesut et al. 2019).

From my point of view, the individuals involved will determine the suffering and pain of a patient (Storer, 2017). When a person is ready to die, the decision should be taken from the most significant number of members to break the tie. According to the Kantian theory, I believe physician-assisted suicide is the best way to end someone’s pain and suffering. Therefore the legislature are creating a universal law for this matter (Storer, 2017).

References

Barbara MacKinnon and Andrew Fiala (2018). Ethics Theory and Contemporary Issues Cengage Learning

Pesut, B., Greig, M., Thorne, S., Storch, J., Burgess, M., Tishelman, C., ... & Janke, R. (2019). Nursing and euthanasia: A narrative review of the nursing ethics literature. Nursing ethics, 0969733019845127.

Storer, A. A. B. (2017). Euthanasia and the Law: The Rise of Euthanasia and Relationship With Palliative Healthcare (Doctoral dissertation).