about children who have no one and need people to serve as guardians but we really don’t think about the adults who, due to physical or mental incapacity, need someone to serve as their guardian. These people need someone to help make financial, medical, and personal decisions on their behalf. The Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act, considers an incapacitated adult as one who is unable receive and evaluate information or make or communicate decisions to such an extent that the individual
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Ethics Case Study Sandra Childers HCS/335 January 16, 2012 Patricia Tobin. PhD, LCSW Ethics Case Study This paper discusses the dilemma of Jerry McCall. Jerry, office assistant of Dr. Williams, is a trained medical assistant and Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). While covering the front desk while the receptionist was out to lunch, a patient and friend of Dr. Williams calls requesting a refill order for Valium. The friend is taking a trip by plane and takes the Valium when he flies. There
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ensuring compliance with state laws of practice, that each level abide by the laws for their nursing practice, and by discipline nurses found to have hazardous practices. The Board of Nursing reports to the office of the Governor of Virginia. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is the principal specialty group found in nursing. The AACN focuses on educating nurses that provide care too critically, and acutely ill patients. They sponsor national symposiums, and hold local and regional assemblies
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Today’s Physical Therapist: A Comprehensive Review of a 21st-Century Health Care Profession Prepared by the American Physical Therapy Association January 2011 Foreword The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) created Today’s Physical Therapist: A Comprehensive Review of a 21st-Century Health Care Profession to provide accurate information for government entities and the public about the history, role, educational preparation, laws governing practice, standards of practice, evidence
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her alive, as she was alive in every sense of the term other than she needed tube feeding and fluids. When her husband decided he wanted the feeding tube discontinued the family fought through the court system. Despite the testimony of many other medical professionals that she was disabled, the courts stood by the initial decision of the judge. There is no one specific law that governs each state as a whole. Each state has its own ruling on euthanasia. In Texas it states, “A person commits an offense
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straightforward as it is in textbooks. There will be times when we, as counselors, face the challenge that is an ethical dilemma. When deciding how to manage these types of situations there are ethical, legal and moral considerations. The American Counseling Association has established the ethical guidelines for counselors. The legal obligations counselors must adhere to are established by the federal government and state legislation. Moral principles that counselors reflect upon are autonomy, nonmaleficence
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Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Surrogacy Christie Blackwell HCA 322 Dr. Nine Bell June 17, 2013 Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Surrogacy Many individuals have a life plan consisting of college, marriage, and then children. After numerous methods of conception, many couples are still unable to conceive a child. A woman who enters into a contract with a couple, agreeing to carry and birth a child, then hand that child over to the contracted couple, who is often unable to conceive own their
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The DNACPR Policy 4 Ethics 7 Patients Consent 9 Withholding Information 14 Informed Choice 17 Forcing Information Upon Patients 20 The Nurses Role 22 Conclusion 25 References 26 Appendix 27 Glossary of terms CPR: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. DNACPR: Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. NMC: Nursing & Midwifery Council. GMC: General Medical Council. BMA: British Medical Association. GP: General Practitioner
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most interested in joining the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA). Their goal is to set standards and develop improved methods of effective emergency nursing practice. In addition, they wished to provide continuing education programs for emergency nurses as well as a united voice for nurses involved in emergency care (ena.org, 2015). In specific regards to my practice as a RN in the ER, the Iowa Board of Nursing and the Emergency Nurses Association have very differing functional roles. The Iowa
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violate the patients advanced directive wishes to not be placed on a respirator as well as allow someone who was not legally responsible to make medical decisions for this patient. This nurse also withheld pertinent information regarding the knowledge of and stated in the Advanced Directive. According to the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics Provision 1.4 The
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