Claire’s Storyhttp://mediasrv.swosu.edu/mymedia/distance/brandi.fowler/claire-story.wmvClick the Link above and watch the video. Then answer the questions below and submit them to thedrop boxClaire is a registered nurse who is dying from ovarian cancer. She shares what it is like to be the one inthe bed.Questions to facilitate a foundational ethical process:1. Claire’s story represents more of what might be called “everyday ethics.” As you listen to herspeak, what values do you hear her express? How could health care providers respond to thosevalues? Justify your responses with various ethical principles.2. What are the major responsibilities for health care providers when caring for patients likeClaire? Explore areas such as communication, privacy, insensitivity, treatment goals, fear ofbeing alone, and social issues.3. What professional obligations do nurses and physicians have when managing pain in situationssuch as this one? Assignment help – Discuss a pain protocol that might have been appropriate. Assignment help – Discuss theeducation of most physicians and nurses in pain management and what specifically can be doneto improve it.4. Recount everyday-type occurrences in your daily work where a more ethical provision of carecould be offered.Questions to facilitate an advanced ethical process:1. Familiarize your group with the theory of ethic of care and apply the theory to the relationshipsClaire refers to in her monologue.2. Assignment help – Discuss the dilemmas that health care staff experiences when a physician may or may not befully honest with the patient. At Claire’s first meeting with the oncologist, she asks if she is goingto die and the oncologist replied, “I’d rather not discuss prognosis at this time, this is not therecommended protocol.” What does the term “recommended protocol” mean to you?3. Describe in detail the ways that palliative care benefit patients such as Claire. How cantransitioning from aggressive care to comfort care be more seamless? Are there financialimplications for patients like Claire when considering the transition? 4. What ethical language do you use when approaching the issue of futility? Shelia: A Song Outta Tunehttp://mediasrv.swosu.edu/mymedia/distance/brandi.fowler/sheila-story.wmvClick the Link above and watch the video. Then answer the questions below and submit them to thedrop boxShelia is HIV positive and lacks insurance. She discusses her outlooks on life and death and herperception of the healthcare system.Questions to facilitate a foundational ethical process:1. Identify instances when ethical issues such as autonomy, beneficence, justice, truth-telling andpromise-keeping are demonstrated in her monologue.2. What aspects of Sheila’s life and illness make it difficult to care for her and what biases orprejudices do you or your colleagues have regarding stories like Sheila’s? Are there attitudesthat need to be changed to provide better healthcare? Be specific.3. Name ways that Shelia’s views of end-of-life care are similar to what professionals call “comfortcare.”4. Reflect on Sheila’s past experiences with death and how they impact her values regarding death.Do the same with your own experiences of death and how they influence your values regardingdeath.Questions to facilitate an advanced ethical process:1. Assignment help – Discuss other ethical theories and apply them to this drama: narrative ethics, the ethic of care,virtue, and utilitarianism.2. What are the broader justice issues such as resource allocation and issues relating to noncomplianceraised in this drama? What are ethical responses to these issues?3. Shelia portrays someone who makes choices that may not be viewed by health care providers asbeing in her best interests. Think of other times when patients make “bad” decisions and discusstheir implications. Are decisions that are viewed by healthcare professionals as non-compliant necessarily immoral? Might they ever be “holy” or “noble” in the patient’s or patient’s family’sviews?

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