Registered Nurse should try and guess what do to. A Registered Nurse is asked by another staff member within the interdisciplinary heath care team to carry out a task. However, the Registered Nurse is not certified to carry this task out, what should the Registered Nurse do: a) The Registered Nurse agrees to do the task and does not let the other staff member know they are not qualified. b) The Registered Nurse understands their own responsibilities and accountabilities (Registered nurse competency
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Professional Ethics Paper Carolyn Smith HCS/478 August 15, 2011 Ann-Marie Peckham Professional Ethics Paper The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship among professional values, ethics, and legal issues. A person’s personal values and ethics can influence their professional values and ethics in the workplace. Finding the right balance between personal and professional views in the workplace will help foster a successful career. This paper will cover relationships between legal
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enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health (WHO, 2012). The goal of health promotion is to help prevent the spread of disease or premature death, while promoting healthy living choices. Nurses are an important piece to this process. The concern for nurses it to promote health promotion in nursing practice, help implement methods for health promotion, and to explain and educate the three levels of health promotion prevention. Health Promotion in Nursing Practice The
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Professional Roles and Values Melissa Hurst WGU Professional Roles and Values RUP1 Professional Roles and Values INTRODUCTION Nursing is not just simply going to school and passing the NCLEX. It truly is an experience like no other, filled with lifelong learning that continues far past the classroom. Nurses learn not only from their classroom and clinical experience, but also from past experiences and even our earliest predecessors. Although at times it can be very hectic and challenging
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Health Organization Case Study: United Healthcare Many selections of healthcare plans are available for consumers to choose from to match their own personal needs, preferences and budget. The health care system is most often complex, inconsistent and costly. To maintain and improve the business, healthcare organizations are continuously innovative and evolving to meet the demands of consumers. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a case study of UnitedHealthcare Group, what they are about, their
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Organizational Quality Improvement Plan Part 1 HCS/588 June 3, 2013 Organizational Quality Improvement Plan Since the Institute of Medicine’s report “To Err is to Human” enacted in 2000, effort has been made to improve the quality of health care. To implement correctly a quality improvement plan (QIP) the perception of the organization culture and the stakeholder’s culture need to be explored (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2013). Quality improvement plan improves quality
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The American Nurses Association Code for Nurses discusses the ethical behavior for nurses and the best course of action in a certain situation. Nurses can be evaluated by a set of standards which determines how well the nurse understands how the law applies specifically to them. Four of the most important ethical principles are beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for autonomy, and justice (Murray & McKinney, 2006). Other important ethical rules, such as accountability and confidentiality, are derived
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A. Explain the functional differences between a regulatory agency, such as a board of nursing (BRN), and a professional nursing organization (PNO) as it pertains to your professional nursing practice. The Board of Nursing is a government agency responsible for regulating nursing practice, creating laws, administering licensure exam and issuing licenses, and overseeing and ensuring the safe practice of nursing. Its ultimate goal is to protect the health, safety and welfare of public receiving nursing
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exceptional nurse apart from others. Safer patient outcomes and reduction in patient mortality and secondary insults of illness has decreased with an increase of staffing Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing (BSN) nurses over a staff consisting mainly of Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) nurses. This paper focuses on the educational differences and competencies between nurses with an ADN and BSN respectively and the experience and skill sets that form the clinical decisions made by these nurses and how
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institutions. In religious sects, nurses were socialized to sacrifice every shred of their identity being “obedient members of an anonymous mass” (Gordon, 2006, p. 2). Religious nurses were taught not to claim credit for their work and accomplishments. Instead, they were educated to view themselves as divine instruments who willingly assigned credit to “God, the Bishop, the Abbot, or the Mother Superior” (Gordon, 2006, p. 3) for their accomplishments. Often, nurses were not viewed by their sex, not
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