HLSC220 Health Care Ethics

Question:

Purpose:

The purpose of this assessment is for students to demonstrate the capacity to develop an ethical argument/s based on the four ethical principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and nonmaleficence. Students will use their allocated topic to develop a sound ethical argumentative opinion piece.

Topic

A health care professional (HCP) experiencing violence from a patient has the right to refuse treatment provision

1 The four principles are: respect for persons’ autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice

2 find out more about ethics, principlism and the four principles