Mill's Utilitarian Theory Paper

According to Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarianism theory, “actions are right when they increase happiness and diminished misery and wrong when they have the opposite effect” (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2014, p.40). Therefore, in this specific situation, Mr. Delk suffer from pain and fractured his hip s/p fall, which is the opposite of happiness at the end result. John Stuart Mill stated that the judgement of utilitarianism will fit depending on their final result. Mills also stated that “only right actions are those that produce the greatest happiness” (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2014, p. 41). Here, the primary nurse and the student nurse were failed to follow the utilitarian theory based on their action or end result. For instance, the primary nurse and the student nurse started the shift with the patient in a professional, compassionate, and caring relationship and the day was going smooth and peaceful way. However, when the maximum help needed during the care, the nurses neglect and miss one part of care and the incident happened. Overall, the conclusive result brought the negative outcome of the

45). According to Kant the patient‘s goal should be the nurses goal. The nurse should think morally if she or one of her close family members would be the patient what she would expect in return to care. The patient come to the hospital to get better with treatment and caring. In this case the primary nurse took care of the patient and delegate the work to the student nurse, but she was not genuinely caring and compassionate. Her mind was totally engaged about the plan of her next vacation. Therefore, she did not fulfil certain duties that she needed to do. She started in a professional way, but towards the end due to her negligence the fall incident and harm happened to the