A client with leukemia is being considered for a bone marrow transplant. The healthcare team is discussing the risks and benefit
s of this treatment and other possible treatments with the goal of inflicting the least possible harm on the client. Which principle of healthcare ethics is the team practicing? A. Justice
B. Fidelity
C. Autonomy
D. Nonmaleficence
Leukemia occurs when damage is caused by the DNA of developing blood cells, mainly white cells. This causes the blood cells to uncontrollably expand and split. Good blood cells die, and are replaced by new cells. Bone marrow transplant is required in curing leukaemia. A bone marrow transplant is a surgical procedure performed to replace the weakened or killed bone marrow by illness, infection, or chemotherapy. This procedure involves the transplantation of blood stem cells into the bone marrow where they create new blood cells and encourage new marrow growth.
The healthcare team is discussing the risks and benefits of this treatment , this refers to Nonmaleficence healthcare ethics. Nonmaleficence means that it does not damage or cause the least possible harm to achieve a beneficial outcome.
Nonmaleficence is a principle of healthcare ethics which states that patient should not be harm even with the least harm possible either intentionally or non intentionally.
Example is immediately stopping a thing or something that can harm a patient or cause injury to them such a medication which are harmful by refusing to give the patient even if they request for it which is why the principle of NONMALEFICENCE states that there is an obligation not to cause or inflict harm on others or to do no harm to patient
Therefore Nonmaleficence is a vital, important and essential obligation in morality and medical ethics which all medic practitioners has to follow.
Therefore the principle of healthcare ethics that the team was practicing is NONMALEFICENCE
