on NBC's ER: Betraying Trust or Providing Good Care? When is it ok to Break Confidentiality?" (Nathanson, 2000), the author addresses an ethical issue that incites ethical conflict for a nurse. In order to coerce two young girls reluctant to seek medical help, Nurse Hathaway made a promise that no matter what she learns about them during the exam she will not divulge this information to the parents or anyone else. Finding out that her patient 14 year old patient not only had HPV, but also cervical
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Euthanasia in the Eyes of Ethics The act of euthanasia continues to be a moral dilemma within society that either violates, or advocates different philosophical principles of ethics in one way or another. The controversy of euthanasia mainly resides within the healthcare industry where all employees are guided and bounded by medical ethical codes. These codes encourage that every healthcare worker should base their decisions upon responsibility, honesty, safety as well as respect for human beings;
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find fulfillment in this work as a career? The more I pondered this thought, the more I realized that this was not the right career path for me. I saw images of the medical assistant program in the catalog at the school where I was attending. I could not shake the thought of the medical field for a profession. I attained my medical assistant degree and worked in the field for 10 years. The longer I worked, the more I realized that there was more that I wanted to do, but my current degree restricted
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Code of Ethics The American Public Health Association (APHA) is one of the oldest and diverse organizations of public health. This association has been working to improve public health since 1872. The association aspires to protect all Americans and the community from unnecessary, serious health threats and attempts to assure community-based health promotion and disease prevention actions and preventive health services are universally accessible in the United States. APHA covers an expansive assortment
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are not just clinical in nature, they encompass the whole patient experience. The ethical self assessment is an assessment of my own ethical decision making process. The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) has developed a set of questions designed to identify individuals' ethical decision making. "The American College of Healthcare Executives firmly believes that healthcare executives have an ethical responsibility to use a systematic, deliberative and thoughtful approach to decision
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Nursing Research Nursing is often incorrectly regarded as a subset of the medical profession; in reality, the profession of Nursing is a unique, distinct science with its own knowledge base and skillset. In accordance with the requirements of a scientific profession, there is a need for scholarly inquiry and nursing research in order to maintain autonomy and distinction of the Nursing perspective separate from other disciplines. An editorial published in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship noted
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ANA provides the Nursing profession guidelines to treat every patient with dignity, respect, and compassion also free from any personal judgment of race, social or economic status, personal disparities, or disregard to health status. The American Nurses’ Association illustrates how to carry out your professional practice with their primary focus on the patient and their family. As nursing we must respect professional boundaries, to include the privacy and confidentiality of the patient and family.
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function of the regulatory agency is to make sure that nursing practices are safe. Professional nursing organizations consists of multiple special interests such as, Academy of Medical-Surgical nursing, Psychiatric Nurses Association and Academy of Neonatal Nursing to name a few. However, it is the American Nursing Association (ANA) that speaks for all nurses. They ensure that standards are current and accurately represent nurses across the nation. They are dedicated to meeting the needs of nurses
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Management Paper Classroom Facilitator: Lauri Rose Introduction: The assignment included in this team collaboration defines, analyses, and explores the similarities and differences between the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the American Medical Association (AMA), as well as determines proposals for improving management and accreditation requirements with effective compliancy. This study also provides a table in the appendix documenting resources and
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Ethical Issues for Nurses Alexis Bushay HCA 322 Health Care Ethics & Medical Law Instructor: Jennine Kinsey August 18, 2012 Ethical Issues for Nurses Ethical issues have always affected the role of the professional nurse. Efforts to enact this standard may cause conflict in health care settings in which the traditional roles of the nurse are delineated within a bureaucratic structure. Nurses have more direct contact with patients than one can even imagine, which plays a huge role in protecting
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