Ethical Dilemmas That Could Arise in a Diabetes Advocacy Campaign, and How You Could Manage It?

The provisions seven and eight of the nurse's code of ethics indicates the duties of the patient's advocates which include, taking part in policy formulation and to promoting health through upholding the human rights, and taking part in the provision of care that is culturally diverse and respects the patient's cultural diversity( Budge, 2010). However, various perspectives are of ethical concern in the healthcare reforms system, the achievement of the whole advocacy campaign is dependent on how well ethical concerns are solved or addressed. To maintain an acceptable standard of ethics, it is important to make sure that the relevant stakeholders are enlightened on all the ethical views. This study will review the ethical dilemmas that are present in a diabetes advocacy campaign.

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The first ethical dilemma that may present itself regards to the incentives of advocacy campaign participation. For one to encourage the population to take part in diabetes advocacy campaigns there is the need for the introduction of one or several incentives. For example, the improvement of the healthcare standards in the society and the improvement of health (Dwarswaard, 2015). However, the advocacy stakeholders might view the advocacy as imposing a financial burden. Although the advocacy campaign does not use financial incentive, it still acts as an ethical issue since the participants might ask for financial incentives for them to engage in the advocacy initiative. This leads to the financial framework being a key issue that is of ethical concern during the advocacy campaigns. The ethical dilemma can be solved by not using financial incentives; this helps in ensuring that proper ethical standards are maintained. Other alternatives of solving the ethical issue include conducting regular medical check-ups since most of the African Americans are at risk of diabetic infection than the other race, this mainly helps in dealing with programs that target the African Americans.

The second ethical dilemma during diabetes advocacy is concerned with data. The entire process of advocacy campaigns is concerned with the collection of data and analysing the information gotten from the patient. The participants may not be willing to give adequate information since they are concerned about their privacy. Maintaining the needed standard of confidentiality is, therefore, a key issue of ethical concern during the advocacy. Although information confidentiality is a key component of the healthcare campaign, some types of disclosure are crucial in attaining the advocacy goals. For example, it is hard to get financial support from various authorities without provision of accurate data, and therefore in such a case, it gets hard to ensure the proper standard of ethical balance (Pocock, 2012). This type of diabetes advocacy targets the African Americans who are suffering from diabetes (Dwarswaard, 2015). The ethical issue can be solved by ensuring that written consent is provided before providing any information about the participant's records, this will help in preventing ethical dilemmas on confidentiality. It is considered as a continuous cycle that happens throughout the campaign. The diabetes advocacy campaigns also avoid any form of financial incentive thus; none of the advocacy participants will have the benefit of financial incentives for them to taking part in the advocacy process.

Describe the ethics and lobbying laws that apply to the diabetes advocacy campaigns.

Various laws from the ANA code of ethics apply to the advocacy initiative this includes; first, the advocacy initiative by the health practitioners like nurses should focus on the improvement of the well-being of the patients. The diabetes advocacy campaign attains this ethical law since its main focus is to the prevention of diabetes among the African American. ANA code of ethics is against any act of self-gain by the health care personnel while conducting the healthcare initiative (Cox, 2010). The advocacy follows the law since its purpose is to benefit the community. Therefore, the campaign should obtain support from an accepted institution review board as an effective part of the reporting requirement.

Evaluate the special ethical challenges that are unique to the population you are addressing.

The diabetes advocacy campaign mainly focuses on the African Americans whereby some ethical challenges are specific to the population this includes. First, the standards of living in the population are relatively low, and this is due to their low-income level and other economic views. There is a wide range of ethical challenges that came up when involved with this kind of population. For example, there may be a misconception that the diabetes advocacy mainly targets the population due to its economic Vernability.

Secondly, another ethical challenge that may affect the achievement of the diabetes advocacy campaign is that the target population members are temperamental as compared to the other races. This genetic issue is mainly seen among the Africans Americans (Dwarswaard, 2015). The population temperament may affect the achievement of the diabetes campaign because some of the participants may be hostile. To deal with such kind of ethical challenge, there is the need for continues educational programs; such programs will enable the participants to understand the need for the campaigns and to try to encourage the Evaluation of INTERPOL's population to embrace it

Conclusion

Diabetes patient education and advocacy are at the forefront of nursing whereby diabetes is considered to be highly present among the minority groups in America. Diabetes management and prevention programs are headed by the cultural needs of the population at risk, for example, the African Americans in the improvement of understanding and enhancing compliance to lifestyle changes. In this case, my proposed diabetes initiative campaign would involve employing worksite wellness program, and this program will major on using preventive methods, for example, physical activities and healthy diets. Laws like the H.R 4209 should be created and passed to make sure that research and contributions focus mainly on the minority groups.

References

Cox, S. (2010). An ethical dilemma: should recommending antenatal expressing and storing of colostrum continue?. Breastfeeding review, 18(3), 5

Budge, P. (2010). Management of diabetes in patients at the end of life. Nursing Standard (through 2013), 25(6), 42..

Dwarswaard, J., & van de Bovenkamp, H. (2015). Self-management support: a qualitative study of ethical dilemmas experienced by nurses. Patient education and counseling, 98(9), 1131-1136.

Pocock, S. J. (2012). Ethical dilemmas and malfunctions in clinical trials research. Annals of internal medicine, 156(10), 746-747.