Ethics Health & Social Care

Ethics Learning Outcome: To be able to understand and differentiate between the four ethic principles and be able to apply them to health and social care settings. Success Criteria: To define “Laws of Life” (Ethics) To balance personal and professional ethics. To present the four ethics principles to the group. To apply the ethics principles to health and social work examples.

What are the laws of Life? Students pair up and share Your interpretation or description of ―Laws of Life. You have 5 minutes to discuss in pairs and then share with the class. Laws of life are ethical principles, core values, positive character traits that help people live life successfully. Laws of Life are typically defined by – love, service, perseverance, honesty, respect, responsibility and courage.

Van Diagram – Compare Personal/Professional ethics In pairs complete a van diagram to show which ethics may match or not with a worker and their profession.

Virtue ethics, Principlism, Deontology, Consequentialism. We will go through the Prezi. Then you will have the text books. I will split you into groups of four. You will research one of the philosophers. One of you will teach the next group, you will work clockwise until every group has bee taught about each ethic philosophy.

Challenge Consider the following scenarios: 1. You witness a car crash. The wreckage is burning, but you may be able to save one of the two passengers. To your horror, you realise that one is your father and the other is a famous cancer specialist on the brink of a breakthrough. WHO DO YOU SAVE? 2. You are close to a breakthrough with a new medical treatment, but to complete your work you must carry out some particularly slow and painful experiments on animals. WHAT DO YOU DO? 3. Your ship goes down and you’re lost in the sea with 3 others, in a life raft. You have no food. There is no immediate hope of rescue. Two could survive by eating the third: otherwise, all three of you will die. WHAT DO YOU DO? 4. Conjoined twins are born, attached at the abdomen and sharing several major organs. If nothing is done, both will die. If the twins are separated, one will die and one will live. WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? NB – Apply the Ethical theories to the scenarios:

Plenary (Principlism Ethics)  David is 74 years old and has had dementia for 4 years • David has always been very active and independent, and enjoys going for walks or going shopping by himself • A few times in recent months David has become confused while on trips to the town centre • He has returned home very late several times, and once his wife Margaret had to search for him, finding him in a confused an distressed state • Margaret is worried about David going out by himself, and is considering stopping him leaving the house on his own. How much should David’s quality of life be taken into account? How much should Margaret’s Concern for his safety be taken into account? To what account should Margaret be able to restrict David’s freedom? Does it make a difference if David fights against the efforts to stop him from going out?

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