The Status of Whistle-blowing in Bio-Medical/Nursing Ethics
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52206/jsmc.2021.11.3.643Abstract
The paper is a commentary based on the ethical argumentations of the status of whistle-blowing practising in biomedical and
nursing health care services. Whistle-blowingis a disclosure from a member of organization about some practice usually considers
misconduct, harmful, unethical or illegalin that organization.In nursing,the suggestion is made in favour of internaltype of whistleblowing,whichis reporting inside the channelto correct an obnoxious situation,common examples are incident reports,verbal and
written reporting to channel of commands or line managers etc. The paper also highlighted the aftermath of reporting whistleblowing with examples of developed countries which already exists protection law for the whistle-blowers. In Pakistan, only the
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has the distinction ofpassingthe whistle-blowing act in 2016.
Keywords: Whistle-blowing, Bio-medical/nursing ethics, Law, Pakistan.
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