ESSAY : Ethics Position Statement

Review media Miss Evers Boys on YouTube and read 2 chapters in textbook to write 2 page paper

SAMPLE SOLUTION

The film Miss Evers’ Boys” is a typical example of how medical research more often disobeys the moral and ethical practices that befit the nursing profession. The film creatively brings out the Tuskegee experiment which mainly focused on the study of black Americans, most of who had been diagnosed with syphilis. Even after the emergence of penicillin, the men were still subjected to other forms of treatment that made some die prematurely. The ethical perspective of this experiment, as depicted in the film, will be the basis of discussion for this task.
The Ethical Principle That Was Violated
The greatest ethical principle that was violated was beneficence. This principle dictates that the action of every nurse should be to promote good health practices for all patients. All actions undertaken by the health practitioners should be for the benefit of the patient. This was not the case in the movie “Miss Ever’s Boys” as the sole purpose of undertaking the experiment entailed providing black patients with a fake and long-term…