Ethics In Nursing

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    Ethics Case Study

    Ethics Case Study HCS478 January 6, 2010 Barbara Scheibe, RNC, MSN Ethics Case Study Healthcare professionals are faced with ethical dilemmas and issues on a regular basis especially in the emergency department. The purpose of this paper is to identify ethical issues within a case study. This case study involves an eight month old infant who presents to the emergency department with injuries. After arriving at the emergency department it is noted that the infant has bilateral fractured

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    Professional Moreal Compass

    givers, the nursing staff must face ethical situations in their practice on a daily basis. The American Nurses Association (ANA) developed a code of ethics for nurses as a framework to provide quality nursing care while upholding the ethical standards of the nursing profession (American Nurses Association, 2014). This paper will discuss the author’s professional moral compass with regards to personal, cultural and spiritual values. This author, like many nurses, went into the nursing field with

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    Nursing Research

    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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    Annotated Bibliography

    Nursing Ethics, 18(1), 54-63. doi: 10.1177/0969733010386162 The authors of this article were one Shelia Catlett of Western Kentucky University and Fairview Community Clinic, USA and one Sherry R Lovan also from Western Kentucky University, USA. Both authors conducted a qualitative research study, which was also a replication of a study published in 2002, investigating the qualities of a good nurse and the role ethics plays in decision making. Ethics refers to the moral code for nursing and is

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    Nurses Association (ANA) recommendations of the decision-making process. According to the ANA’s article Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, “the nurse has three professional resources to inform their thinking and decision-making and guide their practice” (ANA, 2010, p. 7). These three resources are the Code of Ethics, Nursing’s Social Policy Statement, and Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing. I would hold meetings where staff could attend and practice the skill, if needed. This would help

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    alternative choices which ends up breaching the confidentiality. The author would like to discuss one’s professional position regarding the ethical implications of a breach of confidentiality, ethical theories and principles, identify alternatives, and ethics committee’s approach in resolving ethical dilemma. Ethical Implications of a Breach of Confidentiality The medical profession has an obligation to live up to the patient's expectations of privacy and to earn the trust. By breaching confidentiality

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    Concept of Care from a Nursing Perspective

    Concept of Care from a Nursing Perspective Student’s Name Institution’s Name Concept of Care from a Nursing Perspective Care is a universal concept that applies primarily to health. From time immemorial, women have been considered as the primary caregivers in family units. Women always have been responsible for the well-being of the family and the community. If a member of the family or the community fell ill, the women were the only ones tasked with the responsibility of caring

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    Yit1 Professional Roles and Values

    ROLES AND VALUES CORINNE BRONKEMA WESTERN GOVERNOR’S UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL ROLES & VALUES PROJECT My personal nursing mission statement is changing and developing as my career advances, however, one core piece will remain constant. I will strive to provide the best, safest, most ethical and compassionate nursing care that I can for all patients and family members with whom I come in contact. I began my post-high school academic career as an accounting major

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    Nursing Model

    Analysis of a Nursing Conceptual Model, Educating the Staff, Elizabeth's part Nurses have different educational levels so different educational tools are used to teach Watson’s nursing theory (Blais & Hayes, 2011). Watson’s complex, four-element theory will need to be presented over several months for nurses to grasp the concepts and apply the theory in nursing practice. The first in-service should introduce Watson as a nursing theorist and give nurses an overview of the Caritas Process, the Transpersonal

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    Men in Nursing

    different from their own. In order to be sensitive to others, it is first necessary to know and accept one's own values and beliefs.” This is one component of Fairfield school of Nursing Philosophy. I grew up with friends with different set of religious beliefs and ethics but we learned to appreciate each others beliefs and ethics. We had different beliefs but we saw ourselves as equals, created by one God. This has become part of me and has helped shaped my beliefs and values. Just like in Ghana and

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