Gadbury-Amyot (2005) examined how well a multifaceted approach to formal ethics instruction that includes community-based service-learning can improve learning and influence the students' attitudes and perceptions about their role as oral healthcare providers in such areas as access to care, disparity, and working in a diverse community. Students noted that service-learning was both professionally and personally enriching and made a significant impact on their person view as providers of health services and community participants. They also reported on the positive aspects of the "hands-on" experience and hoped to have additional opportunities to participate such activities and indicated a desire to address current access to oral health care dilemmas. The combined classroom information with the community-based service-learning component begins a needed dialog for these professionals to meaningfully consider ethical issues and potential resolutions. Immersion is thus found to work best, with hands-on issues. That is, most students will benefit most from an interactive, actual case study teaching methods that analyze ethical dilemmas and discuss options.
Some of the questions students and future dental hygienists may face include: 1) What is the most important ethic in your profession and why?; 2) How well do you feel that you meet this ethical code?; 3) Name some ethical dilemmas that you have or may experience in your profession; 4) Name some violations of ethics you have or may witness in your workplace; 5) What if a co-worker violated an ethical...
The patient would then have the autonomous right to demand antibiotics from the general practitioner. Fourth, the dentist's preferred practice is not relevant in this dilemma and could not, for example, justify prescribing antibiotics where the potential negative consequences of their use outweighed their purpose. With respect to this principle, the combined application of principles 1 through 3 would override most concerns or rights arising in connection with Principle 4.
For example, if the mother has a computer at home and uses it regularly the hygienist can suggest some Web sites that contain information about the oral health effects of tobacco use. The mother might want to learn more about oral health in general, which would encourage her to monitor Jason's habits and scrutinize his behavior to the point where she might notice if he had been smoking. If Jason's
Ethics Please make sure to show all work for each problem requiring calculations. Please highlight final answer. What is the level of measurement for each of the following: a) Final grades in this class ____Ordinal b) Weights of newborn babies ____Nominal c) Seasons of the year ____Interval d) Boiling temperatures of different liquids ____Ratio Types of sampling used: a) I collect data from my class ____Simple b) Data from every fourth patient in the hospital ____Stratified c) Data from 400
Dental Care This part II should include Exegesis about the Economic Justice. The world is wrestling today -- as it always was, but perhaps it is more noticeable today -- between extremes of progress and stultification, between extremes of poverty and wealth, and between extremes of greed and lassitude. People, on the one hand, are grasping for more, and then you have, on the other hand, people who have the wealth of
Life and Death: The Life Support Dilemma by Kenneth E. Schemmer M.D Kenneth Schemmer in his thorough, thought provoking book brings to life the controversial subject of the life support issue. For years, many all over the country have pondered, "What if a person were in some kind of an accident and the physicians told them that they were not going to make it?" And all that he or she
When reading Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics people typically maintain emphasis on the position of role of habit in conduct. Virtues or habits according to Aristotle are necessary for a ‘good life’ and that mindless routine is a way to achieve happiness. While the interpretation of Aristotle’s texts may denote to many ‘mindless routine’, in reality it could mean ‘actively hold itself’. This mean essentially, that the manifestation of virtue is in
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