Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing How personal and societal values can influence ethical decision- making process when nurses are faced with ethical issues‚ nursing has long advocated a nonjudgmental approach to care. Nurses need to able to apply ethical principle in decision- making and consider their own values and belief and the values and belief of the client. As nurses we have the responsibility to protect the right of the client by acting as client advocate. According with Blais‚ Hayes‚
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GNT 1 – 724.2.4-01-07 Contemporary Nursing Issues Mary Purvis Healthcare Issues In order to determine the safest and most appropriate discharge plan for this patient the case manager will work closely with the interdisciplinary team who is directly caring for the patient; together they will come up with the most effective‚ appropriate‚ and safest discharge plan. In this case study‚ there are several important healthcare issues the case manager needs to address with the team prior to
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Ethical Issues Paper Rhonda Hammer NUR/578 Victor Gibb The professional nurse is faced with ethical dilemmas as technological advancements improve and increase of cultural diversity. The increase of ethical dilemmas in health care systems has changed the nursing professions view toward ethics and shifted nursing toward a modern day nursing of respect to autonomy‚ maintaining patient dignity‚ and control over ones environment. Emergency room nurses often confronted with ethical dilemmas when
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One of the most challenging moral/ethical dilemmas to resolve occurs when the patient’s autonomous choices conflict with the nurse’s duty to look out for the patient’s best interests. The scenario presented to me describes a conflict between a patient who refuses to bathe and a nurse whose duty is to provide the patient’s care. Because of the patient’s physical condition and inability to get out of bed‚ they require a two-person bath involving lifts. The patient refuses to bathe at the time scheduled
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of care plays an important role in assuring the standards of nursing performance. By providing specific performance requirements‚ standards of nursing performance can improve and provide quality of nursing care in health care settings (Scope & Standards‚ pg 33). Quality care is one of the most significant nursing standards of modern time. This particular standard must be implemented by nurse’s everyday. One of the main concerns in nursing practice today‚ is quality of care in the health care setting
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Ethical Dilemma Nader Ayyad Chamberlain College of Nursing Pediatric/Nursing Ethical Dilemma A major health problem that is affecting millions of children around the globe is child maltreatment (ANA‚ 2015). Child maltreatment is any act of harm or threat to a child under the age of eighteen by a parent‚ caregiver‚ or guardian (ANA‚ 2015). There are four common types of abuse; physical abuse‚ sexual abuse‚ emotional abuse‚ and neglect (CDC‚ 2015). There are many forms of neglect such as
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Responsibility has been defined as a nursing ethical value. It is defined with traits of commitment‚ feeling responsible for the duties forward patients‚ and respecting the patients’ rights for decision making. Based on this definition‚ nurses are responsible for giving evidence-based care‚ best clinical function‚ and applicable and valid research‚ and are accountable for their actions and duties. Verpeet (2005) argues that nurses are responsible for the promotion of patients’ well-being‚ having
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Current Issues of Nurses Today Submitted by: Lindsay G. Bunyi‚ RN PUBLICIZED ISSUES OF NURSES ● Number of Pinoy nurses seeking US jobs fell by 42% in 2011 from 9‚789 in 2010 to only 5‚630 in 2011. The US labor market for foreign nurses is getting overcrowded. ● Extended Hours Issues in Nursing: Exploring the Problems‚ Finding the Solutions By:Acacia Aguirre‚ M.D.‚ Ph.D. and Ann L. Curley‚ Ph. D.‚ R.N. The challenges of operating 24/7‚ focusing on scheduling‚ training‚ and staffing
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Ethical frameworks revolve around being a morally good person and therefore guides the way healthcare professionals treat and care for their patients. Referring to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2013) and the Public Sector Ethics Act (2014)‚ nurses and paramedics are bound by similar ethical frameworks. These revolve around being kind and respectful to all patients‚ no discriminating or judgments for any reason‚ all patients having the right to truthful information and the right to
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patient first? The answer is their ethical duty‚ meaning every nurse is guided by ethical theories and principles which help guide them as a patient advocate. It is these ethics that make a nurse so valuable to clients and ultimately makes a nurse the client’s best advocate. In this paper the core ethical theories and principles will be discussed and how exactly this helps RN’s be the best possible advocate and what benefits the clients themselves derive from these ethical theories. In order to properly
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