Ethics of Paying for Organs and Tissues: Ethical Theory and Principles

Class Title; Bioethics & Healthcare Policy (Part of MSN FNP Program)
#Tile of Paper; Bioethical Issue Paper
Class Syllabus;
“Description: major assignment in this class. The paper will address the importance of a current and controversial bioethical issue to healthcare and the current or emerging dynamics of this ethical issue on the healthcare environment.
*The paper will include the issue, its dimensions, relevant ethical theory and principles, relevant policy (see below), ethical/cultural dynamics (include consideration of your profession’s code of ethics), and the writer’s personal views. Examples and illustrations will be an important part of this paper as they are in any ethical discussion.
*The policy section must indicate current local and/or national policies, and professional organization’s policy on this issue and any recommendations or suggestions you may have for modification or changes. These recommendations will then be used in preparing your congressional policy brief.
This is considered a scholarly paper and there should be readings of substance with citations within the paper and a list of references. This is not an opinion paper. The paper should contain “Abstract”. All papers must conform to the standard academic format, APA style 6th Edition, and be free of spelling, grammatical, and typographical errors. Papers with excessive grammatical or format errors will be returned ungraded to the student for revisions. The number of pages (12-15 pages for max credit) does not include the cover page and reference page.”
My Personal note; I want to choose my topic with a payment system for an organ donor. My question was originally coming from “should we give permission to pay for organs and tissues?”
It’s dimensions; I want to talk about this in multidimensional aspects including ethics, economy, society, religion, and education.
Relevant ethical theory and principles could be involved with Virtue theories, Right theories, Utilitarianism, beneficence and non-maleficence, autonomy, and justice, and more…
I want you to find a professional organization related to more of cost and benefit of organ donor so that we can connect my suggested issue to this association. And later we can find if my idea is possible to realize with Bill. Because I need to make a congressional letter with this idea with the modified and changed concept.
I want to suggest making a new policy to help people who want to donate their organ to others by supporting them with a monetary benefit not only for the first generation if it is feasible, but also next-generation containing family.
ethical/cultural dynamics (include consideration of your profession’s code of ethics); You can explain dynamics by incorporating Christianity as I am a born-again Christian and Asian Culture since I’m a Korean and the nurse’s code of ethics provision 1,2,3,4.
I also want to mention about ‘Organ trafficking and transplant tourism violate the principles of equity, justice and respect for human dignity and should be prohibited. Transplant commercialism targets impoverished and otherwise vulnerable donors leading to inequity and injustice'.
"Controlled, regulated compensation to living organ donors should be permitted as with donation of other body material
I believe that the legalized donation is likely to improve safety for both donors and recipients"
I understand that this could be ethically not quite right to the perspectives of virtue theory and some of the nurse’s professional code. However, in current society, people are dying with an unknown disease and many people are desperately waiting for new organs. Since it is fact that the demand for organ is way higher than the supply of organ in current society, we need to do something. Even the black market is still very active not limited in the U.S., but also over the world especially including China, Korea, Mexico…. For the greatest benefit based on Utilitarianism, social justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence, healthcare partners should try to put more effort to prepare for more donor’s organs and tissues be available for people who are in need.
Personally, I am interested in donating my organ to help people when I am dead either with accident or disease as a healthy organ donor and as a study object for humane body mechanism. My father who was always sick due to his chronic disease condition, often told me that he wanted to become a donor for medical study when he was alive. I was not ready to follow his will and I did not know what to do. When the time happened to me, I was not sure what to do. And I become hesitant too. I did not want to let my family know about this because they were shocked and sad and frustrated. I was the only person who got his will. As the youngest daughter, I could not follow his will per our Korean culture, Confucianism. I did not prepare for this either. So, I guess there are some people who lie in a similar situation like me. I want to help them to prepare for this from my experience. Because I feel guilty when I am thinking of my father’s wishes when he was alive.
Either with education, advertisement, and monetary benefits or else with any compensatory program will help possible donors to have their mindset to sign on donor consent form prior to their life cease. Currently we set this process in our hospital as “routine inquiry”, and by checking patient’s driver’s license.
I can help to save people’s lives by being their body part. I can be a great source for medical science by being an experimental sample for scientists. I really want to contribute myself to growth of medical science so that they can study and find a tool from the donors’ organs and tissues for innovation in medicine.
# In the Last one page of this paper (page13), can you write this paper with narrative style per APA format but a single line spacing, as you find out the association in the above essay. The syllabus is; Professional Association Assignment; Choose one professional association relevant to your bioethical issue paper. This paper should include:
• Review the mission, vision, and values of the association
• Contact the association and find out on what policy activities they are currently pursuing
• Identify your contact person and their role in the association
• Explain the need for the policy activities and how it supports better health or nursing care
• Identify and describe the ethical principle(s) relevant to the mission and policy activities
• Discuss the barriers involved in getting this policy into practice
• Examine and discuss whether or not you would join this association
If you do a great job on this paper, I will always find you for my further paper,
Thank you so much.