essential for nurses to participate in order to focus on ethical and moral issues and note situations that appears to be dilemmas with the help of professional and ethical competence (Tschudin‚ 2002). Moreover unprofessional ethical practice may result to litigations if care was deemed not to be professionally sound. LEGAL ISSUES In conjunction to professional and ethical issues‚ legal issues is an emerging contemporary issues in nursing. Several studies and literatures have been written in relation
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing This paper explores the legal and ethical nursing issues surrounding two different health care case studies. The first case study is regarding the decision-making process of a family for aggressive vs. palliative measures for a patient without advanced directives. The second case study is regarding a nurse’s obligation to report witnessed negligent actions of another nurse being sued in a malpractice case. This
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healthcare is about and blood transfusions assist in that. For some‚ however‚ blood transfusions are not an option. Although denial of life saving measures such as blood transfusions may not be ideal for members of healthcare‚ it is an important ethical issue and belief for some. With that being said‚ it is important as a leader in healthcare to have a better understanding of this in order to advocate for the patient‚ communicate the patients views‚ and provide excellent patient care. There are
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I’ve encountered an ethical dilemma situation in my recent capstone clinical. My clinical preceptor and I caught in the concepts of the principles of autonomy‚ veracity‚ and nonmalifecence. This occurred when we provided nursing service to a 30-years-old male patient who was taken to the ED as a post-code patient. The EMS team arrived in the scene and initiated CPR and defibrillated a client (on the floor of his room). The client ended up in the ICU with a diagnosis of hypoxic- anoxic injury (HAI)
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The twin dilemma was very interesting to me‚ because the twins are the same and different at a same time. I don’t think that they are going to develop and grow in the exactly same way because every child is unique in their own way. In my classroom‚ I have twins that are 2 years old. They are a boy and a girl that look exactly same‚ but they have some difference as we. When I compare these twins a boy is never talking but girl is. He doesn’t know to say any single world but girl knows some words
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Running head: MY NURSING ETHIC Grand Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care NRS-437V My Nursing Ethic Nursing‚ ethics‚ and morals all‚ which are necessary for a nurse to provide‚ care in a diverse population of individual patients. Nurses deal with individuals with complex needs that encompass physical‚ emotional‚ spiritual‚ and psychosocial issues that the average person cannot comprehend let alone that these things can happen to a man‚ women‚ child
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(Weld and Garmon Bibb 2009). Due to the rapid expansion in the scope of nursing care and knowledge‚ nursing staff face greater responsibilities and require increasingly more skills; such is the importance of nursing law and ethics. The pace of change of law in this area is considerable as the role of the nurse is becoming more diverse. The pressure to keep up to date not
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Apply legal and ethical parameters to nursing parameters to nursing practice Question 1 and Question 2 Due date: 15th March 2017 Meagan Thorne 2100261817 meaganbthorne@hotmail.com Case Study History Suzy Martin is an enrolled nurse who works part time 15 hours per week on a surgical ward at the local public hospital. She has been employed for the past year and has attended all of her mandatory training. Suzy is currently completing her bachelor of nursing at the local university
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Metaethical Concepts Ethics‚ also termed moral philosophy‚ is a subdivision of philosophy that studies morality through the examination of right and wrong. One focus of ethics‚ metaethics‚ is concerned with the character of right and wrong‚ where and how ethical judgments start‚ and what they mean in relation to human nature and behavior. Metaethics seeks the answer to questions regarding what morality is and what is ‘bad’ and ‘good’ (DeLapp‚ 2014). There are many concepts within metaethics philosophy‚
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I became aware of this medical- ethical dilemma through my clinical assignment in pediatrics. My patient was a 3 month old female who was born dead. Apparently the mother suffered Placenta Abruptio‚ it is unknown how long the fetus suffered with hypoxia before birth. Nurses claim this infant was born dead. CPR was performed for more than 15 minutes before the heart started. Needless to say the baby was then placed on life support. A determination was made that the infant is brain dead. The major
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