several ethical issues can occur as a result of medication
errors,such as harm to patient wheather to disclose teh
error,erosion of trust and impact on quality care.The main legal
issue related to medici administarion is medical negligence.Ethical
issues related to medical errors can be classified as four .
- Autonomy and right to self determination.-In medical practice
autonomy is expressed as the right of competent adults to make
informed decisions about their own medical care.The principle
underlies the requirement to seek the consent or informed agreement
of the patieent before any treatment takes place.
- Beneficence and nonmaleficience-Benefience involves balancing
the benefits of treatment aganist the risk and cost involved
,maleficience means avoiding the causation of harm.
- Disclosure and right to knowledge-
- Veracity.- This means as being honest and telling truth .