Ethics

Many may find it difficult to explain the meaning of the word. It is also common when you hear it to confuse it with the word morality.

The very word ethics comes from the Greek and means faith or morality. Ethics can therefore be described as the science of the custom and practice, which man uses. Morality is often used as a synonymous word. The word comes from Latin and means approximately the same as ethics.

Ethics can be defined as follows:
Ethics is reflective of what is right and wrong behavior.
Morality is in our language come to be linked to practical action. Ethics is the theory of morality, while morality is ethics training. Ethics provides us with no ready answer, which is not ethics task to set laws and rules and tell us what is right or wrong. By contrast, conduct a tool that leads us to act responsible. With ethics help is better understand the human behind different positions. Ethics helps us also to develop the facts about what we are going to take a position, but also to create structures in our reasoning. It also helps us to question the ethics of our and others' values. We can only conclude that you can not find ready answers as long as people will both be guided by facts and values.

No one knows quite what is morality and ethics are - beyond the dictionary says, and we already know: Ethics is about perceptions of right and wrong. We know that we have moral values, but not why or how. We also know that we think differently and that we rarely can force others to think that we ourselves do.

All the more important it becomes to discuss morality and ethics. Not least in health care, where ethical issues are often brought to a head in the form of elderly care, abortion, euthanasia and priorities.

After taking this course so you become much more aware of how every day we are faced with ethical decisions and dilemmas. Everywhere you look, and turning on itself so you can see these ethical problems everywhere. Not least in the media see it all the time. You just open the newspaper in the morning, and you meet out of a lot of headlines and letters to the editor about ethical problems. What I want with that, is that without knowing it, so we are always on different assumptions in our everyday lives. It can be anything from simple things, very difficult decisions regarding when another party is involved in the outcome. Therefore, it is also very important how you are as a person, and what form of human life and values you have. After the hand, you are within their profession more experienced and can easily take decision on his status in question.
Just in care as "pops" the whole time up problems, and then it's important for you as a carer to be knowledgeable, able to see the overall view, be experienced and able to try to exclude your own opinions and values in the results. As the ethics based on values. So if you would act according to your own opinions and values as it could have major consequences for the user.

Our task was to write down an event that I had been through, where ethical and moral values influenced the way I act. So I thought it was jättesvårt to choose a topic that I wanted to highlight. The acceptance by the care there is so much interesting things to pick up on.
And that it is important to discuss. As the ethics in the workforce, how do you do when you have different opinions in some decisions, or how should I respond to different users originating from different cultural environments. But as I said I would only highlight an event, and try to come up with different sides of how to act in the situation.
My situation I have chosen is a very common one. I happen to carers who are often the problem that the user does not want to take their medication. So how does one take a position on such an issue?

Often when you "accidentally" carry out this problem, I have acted to the duty of ethics, ie. act always after such rules as you see as the duty to comply. And I believe that my job as carer was to give medicine to the user, as it says on my schedule that I will do. Now after hand after reading ethics so I feel that it could act a little different.
The way how I act is mostly in what I have for the values and what I have for the attitude on the human perception. But in this situation so I was probably as I described along my duty in the job. It is very important for me as a carer to put me into the customer's situation. And to try to understand why he / she does not want to take their medication. It is customary to talk about, to provide equal treatment, which means that I perceive and treat the user based on the fundamental human awareness of our common human identity, and in a way that I could accept if the roles were reversed (so that you want to be address, you should respond to others). So now, in reflection it was perhaps able to act a little different on the medication. But what is also important to highlight, is to act according to each individual situation. Ie. that the moment you encounter this problem is individual depending on the user you are involved in. As is my kind of mind based on policies in a case, so maybe not the solution is good in another case.
But look at the situation regarding the blatant medical problem so you can see it in slightly different ways. We have previously already mentioned duty ethic, then we have also impact ethics and ethical sense. It is customary to talk about two angles you can see it from: you should start from the health and well-being or freedom, which we can also mention the concept of autonomy and integrity towards the user, what are the priorities? What is most important? We can see it in a way, while the user sees it quite differently. Our standards on its own can be quite different and quite individual.


For the first order, the question arises: What is the problem?
The user does not want to take their medication, what does that impact?

What people get involved?
Jo farmer who does not want his medicine.

What groups or persons are indirectly involved?
It may be them who will have to take a position, including staff involved in this way in that we are there to help the user to improve their health, + that he did not take their medication then we read the problem to the next staff that goes on after our passports.

It is also important to find out the facts relating to the user's health to see how
"Important" this medicine is. Or if you can overlook it for this time and instead ignore the health and instead think about the customer's self-determination. In this case it is pure fact that the user does not want to take their medication, then there will be a score if it is considered right / wrong, if he should take his medicine. If you want to see it only on the basis that it is good for his health? Or should I give priority to his self-determination?


Well, since the problem it is a fact that the user does not want to then medicine. While in turn, it is a score I think it is right or wrong to act so.
As I mentioned earlier, it is a difficult decision that can be seen from different angles, which I wrote about earlier. As I was going to go closer in to now.


Impact Ethics:
If you would be deleted from this model, they think if you can determine whether the action is right or wrong depending on what its consequences will be. So I go along so would they be able to interpret what I did wrong as carers.
I should be thinking about the customer's self-determination, which he believes is the highest eigenvalue. Or you can turn on that I was right by giving the user the medicine that I alluded to that it was the best for the customer's health. So as I give priority to health here as the highest eigenvalue.
It is also important to explain that by using this model as the ruling document in relation with time, what the consequences might be (the future). And in that one never knows in advance about how the consequences are of it may be difficult to know the results, namely: Were the right or wrong to act as post?

Duty Ethics:
This model has been mentioned a bit earlier on before. Here the focus is primarily on the act. Here look at features of the act, which then may determine the sign of an act is right or wrong. There are also some exceptions where it is our duty to perform the show duties: preserving life (in care), follow certain rules (in school) and so forth.
You can come to this as I mentioned earlier that I chose to follow, my duty was to follow the employer's rules, therefore I felt myself do right. But the other side, one can say that it was also wrong in and with it "broke" the customer's self-determination and integrity.
Important to think of how to act, with us talking about the present. I even we do not know what the consequences be then.

Sinn Nature Ethics:
Here it assumes the user's intentions or motives in order to determine whether it is right or wrong. One can also say that the document is only right if the intentions were good. So what you're thinking about when using this decision model is that there is good and noble motives in mind when to act and evaluate.
So I would give the user their medication so I would have acted with good intentions and just think of the customer's best interests.
It is important to not abuse its authoritarianism and its "power" against the farmer. Many look up to their staff. And that is not taken out of the user reached by its decision to have a multiplicity of user.

Now I have then tried to demonstrate on the basis of different decision models how to think. How should I act? On the basis of health or freedom? It is very difficult as I have said to know what is best for the user when it comes to such a situation. But it is also important to jointly try to talk to the user and hear what is behind the refusal to take his medicine. So you can put in a whole vision and may be able to arrive at the best way through communication.

/Alexander Engzell