Assessment Description
Write a 1,250-1,500 word paper in which you explore decision-making methods that can be used to resolve an ethical dilemma using the scenario provided in the assigned reading, “An Unconscious Patient With a DNR Tattoo.”
Describe how to use the principles of ethical decision making (reviewed in this topic) to help resolve this ethical dilemma. Address the scenario to generate your conclusions about how you would proceed.What are the dimensions of the ethical dilemma?What are the potential organizational policies to which you will refer?Analyze the situation using one of the ethical theories discussed in the textbook. Describe how one might formulate assistance to the clinical staff using this theory. Describe the importance of reasoning in the decision-making process. Considering this dilemma, describe how a Christian worldview would inform ethical responsibilities?Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.APA style and in text Citations I have added a few references provided by professor but please add other outside sources.
APPENDIX D
[Bobby Schindler is president of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, author of A. Life
That Matters: The Legacy of Terri Schiavo, and an internationally recognized pro-life
advocate. The following article appeared on National Review Online on March 31, 2016,
and is reprinted with the magazine’s permission (www.nationalreview.com).]
What Terri Schiavo Still Can Teach Us
Bobby Schindler
Terri Schiavo. Her name—my sister’s name —is seared into the national memory
as a face of the right-to-life movement, but it’s now been more than a decade since
her death. Many are now too young to remember her witness, or they have forgotten.
At the age of 26, Terri experienced a still-unexplained collapse while at home
alone with Michael Schiavo, who subsequently became her guardian. After a short
period of time, Michael lost interest in caring for his brain-injured but otherwise
young and healthy wife. Terri was cognitively disabled, but she was not dying, and
she did not suffer from any life-threatening disease. She was neither on machines
nor “brain dead.” To the contrary, she was alert and interacted with friends and
family—before Michael placed her in a nursing home and eventually petitioned
the courts for permission to starve and dehydrate her to death.
It was this decision by Michael that made my sister’s story a national story
rather than simply a family story. It was this decision—to deprive my sister of food
and water—that transformed our family’s struggle. Rather than trying to work with
Michael to care for and rehabilitate Terri as aggressively as possible, we now were
battling against Michael to fight for my sister’s life.
Michael finally testified, after many years of legal maneuverings against my
family, that Terri had told him before her accident that she would not have wanted
to live in a brain-injured condition. It was this hearsay evidence that led the media
and others to deny Terri’s right to life, and instead speak of “end of life” issues and
advocate for her “right to die.” On the order of Judge George W. Greer, and despite
the efforts of Saint John Paul the Great, a president, Congress, and a governor,
Terri was deprived of water and food. After 13 days, my sister died of extreme
dehydration on March 31, 2005.
We couldn’t save my sister, though millions of advocates did succeed in speak­
ing for the fundamental dignity of every human life, regardless of circumstance or
condition.