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 paper describes
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Jobi M. Troumbly Case study 17 Pages 85-89 1. Given the diagnosis of acute MI‚ what other lab results are you going to look at? CKMB‚ Troponin I‚ Myoglobin- which are all cardiac injury markers. ECGs done at an outside hospital or en route‚ noting the context in which notable ECGs were printed. 2. You find the following laboratory results in the patient’s chart. For each‚ interpret the result‚ and evaluate the meaning for C.B. a. Creatinine phosphokinase (CK) levels drawn on
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medications. The aim of this case study is to explain and discuss the major nursing care of a 85 year old man who has recently been diagnosed with advanced stage dementia. This case study will express my knowledge and understanding of evidence based nursing practice whilst exhibiting my ability to outline a plan of care‚ which is based on this. a)
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Appraising the Relationship Between Nursing Leadership and Patient Outcomes Wong‚ Cummins and Ducharme (2013) conducted a systematic review of studies in 2013 to examine the relationship between “nursing leadership practices and patient outcomes” (p.710). With an intent to improve patient outcomes‚ the authors had conducted a similar review in the past; however‚ limited results of studies warranted additional research on this topic. Their study involved extracting and analyzing a variety of leadership
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nose area(Mayoclinicorg‚ 2016) Medication: -allosurinol: helps with the treatment of gout (Npsorgau‚ 2016) - Lexapro: helps with the treatment of heart disease and high cholesterol (Npsorgau‚ 2016) -Panadol osteo: helps with arthritis pain in the case of pete his gout(Npsorgau‚ 2016) -ostelin: is a vitamin d and calcium supplement used to boost the levels in the body(Npsorgau‚ 2016) -glucosamine: is to help with the movement of the joints(Npsorgau‚ 2016) -ebixa: is used in the treatment of heart
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from this case? What questions do you have? They use the pain scale to measure the improvement from the therapy‚ which is perfect. This group provides patient can use PRICE technique (protect‚ rest‚ ice‚ compress‚ and elevate) to reduce pain‚ which is really new to me. Since it takes a long time for glucosamine to take effect‚ I would like to know more about how the glucosamine effectiveness and safety to be measured. What did this group do well? What could they improve? Because in the case‚ they
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Sara (Social Care and Institute of Excellence‚ SCIE 2009). Ellis (2015) explains exploring and analysing how to resolve the problem with multiple different points of views should be undertaken. The support worker worked with Sara for year‚ in this case getting the support worker point of view would help the district nurse make the right decision. When questioning the district nurse had to think about how the patient personal morals and ethics might be affected and consider the best action to take
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According to research‚ there are ‘numerous risk characteristics’ involved‚ such as a lack of education‚ age‚ minority and support structures. (McCabe & Arndt‚ 2012) The nurse discussed a woman’s case to provide answers as to why she may have begun taking illegal substances. The woman had led a very normal life‚ she lived with her husband and kids. Her husband died suddenly. This woman began using heroin to cope with the loss of her husband. Discussing
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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 Suzy
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A 21-year-old female presents to the emergency department with pain in her right arm. She was in class at the local university and was participating in an activity where the professor had the whole class arm-wrestle one another.. During one of the matches‚ she heard something crack‚ and her whole arm gave way‚ followed by excruciating pain. Her x-ray shows the following: After the physician reviews the x-ray‚ a directed physical examination should test for the most likely complication of the
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