Lucille Sykes Assessment.

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Lucille Sykes Assessment

Sequence of events

  • March 9th- An Amish couple called for an ambulance to have their baby at Sykes’s home.

  • Montone (head of social services) told Lucille Sykes she was breaking the law.

  • Lucile Sykes agreed to stop practising and had a warning given.

  • March 23rd she broke her promise by delivering another Amish baby.

Arguments

  • Equality   v   Freedom

  • Experience    v    Qualifications

The Case for the prosecution-

  • The Amish have already broken their tradition by going in an ambulance.

  • Lucille Sykes is not registered or officially trained.

  • Lucille Sykes knew that she was breaking the law but still continued to deliver.

  • Eugene Montone also told her that she was breaking the law.

  • She agreed to stop practising and also had a warning given. Eugene Montone told her that is she resumed her practice; he would file charges against her.

  • Lucille Sykes broke her word on March 23rd when she delivered another baby for the Amish.

  • She charged the Amish on March 23rd $400 for delivering the baby.

  • Lucille was being paid for doing wrong.

  • Lucille Sykes has no qualifications. She needs a nursing degree to become a midwife, three years experience as a nurse and she also needs to take midwifery exams. She has ignored all of that and started delivering babies, which is against the law.

  • Although she hasn’t had any problems so far, problems could occur tomorrow since there are handicap problems, dwarfism etc in their community.

  • What would she do if there were a problem since the Amish have no modern transport, no type of equipment to contact the hospital or qualified midwifes?

  • It would take the Amish a lot of time to reach the hospital by the horse and carriage and by then, the problem would of have increased.
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  • There are no qualified midwifes in the area.

  • If the newborn baby had a breathing problem, there would be no machines and once again, no fast transport to take them to the hospital.

  • The state law says that all midwifes should be qualified nurses. There should be no unqualified midwifes.

  • If she has enough experience to become a qualified midwife, why don’t she become one?

  • The Amish parents admitted that Sykes delivered all six of their children.

  • The Amish also said that there are lots of disabilities in the Amish communities.
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