The Nurse Practice Act (NPA) in Maryland guides and governs the nursing practice within the state of Maryland. The NPA establishes the board of nursing, it sets standards for nursing education, requirements for licensing, sets standards and scope of nursing practice, the code of ethics, and grounds for disciplinary action. 1. Per the Maryland Nurse Practice Act nurses scope of practice consists of Assessment, Analysis and Nursing Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation
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delegated prescriptive authority will keep you out of professional and legal trouble. Refer back to Lynda Woolbert’s lecture and differentiate between facility-based and non-facility-based NP practices in Texas law. What does Texas law requires for delegation of prescriptive authority? What is a prescriptive authority agreement (PAA) and what elements should be included? What scheduled drugs can an APRN prescribe and what are the legal requirements associated with prescribing controlled substances?
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Participative or democratic leadership The participative type of leadership is where the subordinate staff is involved in the decision making process. The subordinate staff can be involved directly by giving their opinion during a meeting, through delegation of duties or through voting. According to Borkowski (2009), through the participative method the employees feel valued since they are part of the decision making process and do not have to merely follow orders. Multicratic leadership This
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Ethial Issues in Health Care Name: Professor: Institution: Course: Date: Ethical Issues in Health Care Section 1: Ethical Decision Making Processes The Consequential Framework This method of ethical decision making is necessary particularly when dealing with future effects of the lines of action adopted for a particular situation. The method considers all the individuals who will be affected either directly or indirectly (Robinson & Reeser, 2000). The first step is to consider what
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advanced role as well as for continued practice and completion of continuing education hours. State licensure law requires physician delegation for at least one element of my practice. Does your state have independent practice or is a physician required as a collaborator or delegator? My state of Georgia does not have independent practice and physician involvement in delegation is required for any aspect of practice. I am authorized to perform advanced functions and certain medical acts allowed within
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Phoenix Nurses and Students Have Guidelines to Follow The purpose of this document is to present to nurses and nursing students a comparison of The American Nursing Association Code of Ethics for Nurses to the University of Phoenix General Student Responsibilities. The American Nursing Association Code of Ethics sets guidelines on how a nurse should practice nursing. The ANA code of ethics has nine provisions. The University of Phoenix Code of Student Responsibilities also has guidelines
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Kyle Thompson – 05970640 Management of discharge Management skills in adult nursing UZTR6D4-40-2 05970640 The NMC Code (2008) charges nurses to protect confidential information, and to only use it for the purposes given – for their treatment. Therefore all patients and events mentioned in this essay are inspired by real patients and events, but names, locations, dates and other details have been altered or obscured to make identification impossible. Following the introduction of the knowledge
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baccalaureate-degree level in nursing. For additional help finding research on this topic, refer to the library tutorial located at in the Student Success Center. Identify a patient care situation in which you describe how nursing care or approaches to decision-making may differ based upon the educational preparation of the nurse (BSN versus a diploma or ADN degree). Introduction Nurses are prepared in two different educational backgrounds, the baccalaureate degree level of nursing and the associate-degree
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physician conflicting with the personal beliefs the nurse holds to be true. The client’s wishes may conflict with the institutional policies, physician professional opinion, the client’s family desires, or even the laws of the state. According to the nursing code of ethics, the nurse’s first allegiance is to the client (Blais & Hayes, 2011, pg. 60). The ethical ideals of each nurse must be weighed with the laws of the state along with providing the most ethical care for the patient. The advancements in
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stretching activity and strengthening activity over total trial period (Costanzo, Walker, Yates, McCabe, & Berg (2006). * | * Data collection instruments | * 1. Data was collected by open-ended tape-recorded interviews asking what nursing care is regularly missed and the reasons why, then it was fully transcribed and analyzed. The interview transcripts using NVivo by QRS International, which is a qualitative analysis software (Kalisch, 2006, p.307). All groups gathered the same issues
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