Meeting Needs Of The Patient And Healthcare Provider: Teleology And Deontology Offer Guidelines For Making An Ethical Choice Of Healthcare Service Setting Within The Vha

Abstract

As the VHA, as well as the entire healthcare industry places a greater emphasis on providing patient care in non-institutional care settings there is heightened risk to healthcare providers for experiencing safety hazards from patient violence and aggression. When driven by a goal of providing high quality medical care to patients in alignment with the Patient Centered Care Model, an ethical dilemma arises for agencies when this objective is in conflict with ensuring provider safety. This paper examines these potentially mutually exclusive objectives utilizing the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence in relationship to bioethics and the concept of need. Application of two fundamentally varied ethical frameworks, teleology and deontology, are then utilized to create a framework and justification for healthcare agencies and providers and resolution of this issue in a morally and ethically sound manner.

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

Veterans: Political, Social and Health Issues

Number of Pages

133-146

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

85019913704 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85019913704

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