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Applying Ethical Principles Healthcare ethics is a set of moral principles, beliefs and values that guide health care professionals to make decisions regarding medical care. The ability to work through and resolve ethical dilemmas is an important skill for health care providers. Those involved in the decision- making process must consider ethical principles. In the United States, four main principles were defined by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in the textbook titled “The Principles of Biomedical Ethics”. The four fundamental principals are Autonomy, beneficence, nomaleficence and justice (Levitt, D., 2014). These principles provide medical providers with guidelines to help in the decision making process when faced with complicated situations involving patient care. All these principles play an important role in ensuring patient safety and the best possible care. Overview of the Case Study Five days ago, Jenna and Chris Smith became parents of a healthy baby girl they named Ana. Parents and baby are bonding well. At the pediatrician’s office, the Smith’s verbalized that they would like to raise Ana as natural as possible. At home the plan is to exclusively breastfeed and feed her with homemade organic baby food. They also are choosing not to vaccinate Ana. Dr. Angela Kerr, Ana’s new pediatrician, listened to the new parents’ state that they have researched vaccines before coming to this decision. Jenna and Chris verbalized their concerns of the potential harm associated with an increased risk of autism in children that have received vaccines. The well-educated parents openly acknowledged their research included online mommy-blogs. After listening to the concerns, Dr Kerr explained several important benefits of vaccinating Ana. She addressed their fear of the correlation between children receiving vaccines and Autism. The government has safety profiles of vaccines that can be viewed by the public. The system provides transparency for vaccine safety and reports of adverse reactions to vaccines. No vaccine has been proven casual for autism or any other developmental disorder. Second, millions of lives have been saved worldwide due to vaccines such as H. influenza type b and measles. As a result, a decrease in child mortality rate has been seen of the last century. Finally, Dr Kerr explained the ‘Herd immunity” theory. This theory is base that concept that not all children can be vaccinated due to such things as to young, genetic diseases or cancer treatment. At risk children are protected from various vaccine-preventable illnesses because all other children and adults are vaccinated. Routine childhood immunizations contribute significantly to the health of the general public. Due to the benefits outweighing the risk, most states require children to be fully vaccinated before attending school. Dr Kerr has properly educated the parents and confirms they have a full understanding of the risk and benefits of vaccination. Jenna and Chris remains firm in their decision not to vaccinate Ana. Dr Kerr is uncertain what to do at this point. She believes the Smiths’ should vaccinate Ana. Analysis of Ethical Issues in the Case Study In this case study, the ethical dilemma arises when Ana’s parents decide not to vaccinate her. Dr Kerr beliefs are different from Jenna and Chris Smith. She is perplexed by the well educated parents would choose to make their decision not to vaccinate based on some information they read on an online mommy blog. Dr Kerr has listened intently to the concerns the new parents verbalized. She then addresses the concerns with research, objective data and effects of unvaccinated children in the community. Dr Kerr has provided the parents with data that the link between autism and vaccines is unproven. After the discussion, Dr. Kerr is left with the dilemma how proceed with caring for Ana when her parents have chosen to go against her