Conscientious objection in health care settings is an ethical issue that is visited routinely. This entails care providers, and sometimes health care institutions, refusing to provide certain types of services or care to certain patients based on personal/organizational values, typically stemming from religious beliefs.
After reading the background materials and doing independent research, draft a paper that examines some of the ethical considerations surrounding conscientious objection in healthcare. Address this regarding objections both by individual providers as well as healthcare organizations. Be sure to discuss specific ethical principles in your assessment.
This should be a general discussion regarding conscientious objection and should not focus on any one particular issue, except as to use it as a BRIEF example. For example, this should not be a paper arguing for or against providing abortion services.
SLP Assignment Expectations
- Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your analysis.
- Limit your response to a maximum of 2 pages.
- Support your proposal with peer-reviewed articles, and use at least 3 references. For additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals, see http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php
- You may use the following source to assist in formatting your assignment: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.
AMA (n.d.) Ethics committees in health care institutions: Code of Medical Ethics opinion 10.7. Retrieved from: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/ethics/ethics-committees-health-care-institutions
Beauchamp, T. (2010). The four principles approach to healthcare ethics. In Standing on principles: Collected essays (pp. 35-49). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Berlinger, N. (n.d.) Conscience clauses, health care providers, and parents. The Hastings Center, Retrieved from:
https://www.thehastingscenter.org/briefingbook/conscience-clauses-health-care-providers-and-parents/#:~:text=Conscientious%20objection%20in%20health%20care,provide%20services%20such%20as%20abortions
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