Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing NUR/391 July 28, 2013 Mary Nicks, MSN, RN Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing In this paper ethical and legal issues will be reviewed concerning the decisions and responsibilities of the nurse in the case of Marianne who has had a stroke and the decisions that the family is facing for treatment or end of life care. The legal and ethical issues in a malpractice case that occurred several years ago and the responsibility of the nurse to her
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Ethical and Legal Issues Ethical and Legal Issues Faced with ethical and legal decisions on a daily basis, nurses must at times make some pretty tough decisions including how to proceed with care for an incapacitated patient with no advanced directive or how to proceed when called upon to testify against a current employer. The American Nurses Association Code of Nursing Ethics is one of the main tools available for the nurse to utilize when it comes to making these
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing University of Phoenix Nursing 391 Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Marianne, the 79-year old woman who presented with a hemorrhagic stroke in a recent case study, brings up thought for ethical debate. Her outlook is poor, with or without surgery, and she has no advanced directive. Her husband and children cannot come to an agreement on whether life support should end or if all resuscitative measures should be attempted. The following paper will discuss
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ETHICAL & LEGAL ISSUES IN NURSING HOW PERSONAL & SOCIETY VALUES CAN INFLUENCE ETHICAL DECISION MAKING… In my opinion, personal and society values are learned through observation and experience which are influenced by culture, race, religion, and family. Values involve thought, knowledge, and emotion; and vary between one another. With this in mind, it can be difficult to when making an ethical decision. Everyone’s values differ, therefore the nurse needs to be open-minded and not base their decision
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many ethical dilemmas in the delivery of patient care. What can or should be done for the patient versus the wishes of the patient’s 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
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Ethical Issue Paper: My ethical issue paper focused on substance abuse among nurses. I decided to focus on why and how substance abuse impacts patient care. I also tried to focus my paper on the number one thing we as future health care members should do which is to get those nurses who are abusing substances help. I feel like many people would argue and say that they should get fired and never be able to work as a nurse again and I strongly disagree with that. No one is perfect and everyone deserves
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Unfortunately, I can think of situations that were ethically wrong that happened during my nursing career. Sadly, I work with a doctor that does cesarean sections on his patients because it's 5 o'clock, and it's time for him to go home. The situation is a well known one, but nothing different seems to change the situation. Many are aware that this happens on many days, but it continues to happen. At the hospital, we have residents, and they do the vaginal exams. This particular doctor tells the residents
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Joshua Nkwocha Mr. Jensen Period 6 23 January 2009 A Shameful Blemish On the Face Of Humanity Around the time of the Great Depression, 1939 to 1945, Jewish people in the entire western world, especially in Germany, Poland, and Romania, were tormented and were helpless victims of hatred. Although anti-Semitism was already present at this time, the Holocaust greatly amplified this form of racism. Holocaust is the act of genocide by fire. Elie Wiesel is a survivor who provides living testimony
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Week seven: What ethical issues have you seen in the clinical setting? How are these issues addressed? How do you feel about this? One ethical issues I have seen was with my patient . She was 65 year old woman who was in the hospital for Nausea and vomiting. She was in the hospital for about a week. I was getting the report from the pervious nurse and she constantly complained that the patient’s pain was in her head. She came to this assumption because she assumed that a hour or 2 after she received
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Singapore Nursing Board Standards for Nursing Practice defines that Nurses/midwives have the professional responsibility and accountability to uphold Standard of care and to contribute to their dissemination, interpretation and development despite medical advances, social and demographic changes and an increasingly complex healthcare delivery system that challenge the ability of nurses to provide safe quality of care. Should nurses fail to uphold certain standards and by doing so cause harm or
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