Is it ethical to date former patients? Is it ethical to date a patients family member?
Stance: It is ethical to date former patients as long as the healthcare relationship has been terminated first. It is unethical to date a patients family member.
Essay requirements:
- Identify and discuss 2 ethical issues that are of concern that apply to this topic.
- Discuss in depth and apply a minimum of 2 principles of bioethics
- The principles of bioethics are autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity
- Apply an ethical theory to support your position
- For the purposes of this course, the main ethical theories are deontology, utilitarianism, moral relativism, or justice theory, but you may use another if applicable.
- Would the practice in your article be considered ethical? Explain why or why not and justify your rationale with peer-reviewed literature. You must take a stand and make an ethical argument.
- A minimum of 3 journal article references (scholarly) are required for this assignment.