1 What is nonmaleficence How does this pretain to health adm
Solution
1) Nonmaleficence is ethical and legal duty of health care personnel. The term \'Nonmaleficence\' is derived from Latin and means first, do no harm. The health care professional need to take care about treatment procedures and protect the rights of patients. The health administrators and other healthcare professionals try to help the patients by providing treatment with less pain. The healthcare administrator must use appropriately trained and educated technicians for sample collection and diagnostic tests and less suffering is given to patient as part of treatment.
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Benefience is an obligation to help or benefit hte patient in getting the optimal health. Benefience includes obligation to help patients, protecting patient rights and providing treatment for those who require it. Benefience is an obligation attending needs of humanity but it also must be balanced with a specific healthcare decision benefits against harms caused by it in day to day life.
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Justice is fainess and equality. All problems cannot be addressed by a single moral. Single theory of justice is not sufficient to deal with construction reflection on a healthcare policy. Justice is hard to practice because of lack of comprehensive health care system. In a situation of people from various ethical backgrounds and are unprotective require healthcare, the unified concept of justice cannot be acheived. Diverse concepts and theories of justice in biomedical ethics and health care systems become controversial and hard to pin down.
4) Accoring to General Medical Council (GMC), confedentiality is the key for the trust between the doctor and patient. Patients must give the personal information needed as part of treatment. This should be kept confidential and should not be shared with others. In case of requirement to share information, no objection consent must be obtained from patient. The healthcare professionals must keep the coded information. Patient should be satisfied that the information shared is to provide care for ownself and the sharing of information is only at low level. Confedentiality is provided with all legal requirements, data protection legislation and common law.
