sister from a possible life threating disease. As a registered nurse we are bound by both legal and ethical obligations that we must contend with before we react to a situation. Laws are commands, the consequences for not obeying the law is a loss of a license to practice nursing. And ethics are the systematic study of morality with no room for opinions or gut reactions (Laureate
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Pageant Chapter Review Questions: Answer Key Chapter 1: 1 (C); 2 (A); 3 (D); 4 (B); 5 (C); 6 (A); 7 (E); 8 (B); 9 (D); 10 (E); 11 (C); 12 (A); 13 (E); 14 (C) Chapter 2: 1 (C); 2 (B); 3 (C); 4 (D); 5 (A); 6 (E); 7 (B); 8 (B); 9 (D); 10 (E); 11 (A); 12 (C); 13 (B); 14 (E) Chapter 3: 1 (B); 2 (A); 3 (C); 4 (C); 5 (D); 6 (B); 7 (E); 8 (D); 9 (A); 10 (B); 11 (E); 12 (C); 13 (A); 14 (B) Chapter 4: 1 (C); 2 (A); 3 (B); 4 (D); 5 (E); 6 (A); 7 (B); 8 (D); 9 (C); 10 (E); 11 (B); 12 (A); 13
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meeting their basic needs. The American Nurses Association defines the practice of nursing as “The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.”. The ANA also addresses the importance of patient advocacy in their Code of Ethics (Provision 3): “The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects
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nursing perceptions, knowledge gaps of the advantages of unrestricted family presence, an unsupportive unit culture and lack of a formal open visitation policy. These barriers can influence a nurse’s decision to allow family presence, positioning nurses as a barrier to open visitation. The purpose of the presentation is to inform critical care
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#7b #69 #79 #113a Indeed, “Nurses have an ethical responsibility to safeguard information obtained in the context of the nurse-client relationship. When clients entrust their health care and health information to a nurse, they expect and rely on it being kept confidential.” (College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia, 2016, Privacy and Confidentiality section, para. 3) For example, when I was a student nurse and had my nursing clinical at one of the biggest public hospital, I was assigned
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standards of patient care that must be led by excellence, aim, and success in obtaining goals. On the other hand, nurse satisfaction is as much as important as the patient and family satisfaction. A highly satisfied nursing staff may not easily get burned out to high stresses and enhance nursing staff retention. A retrospective analysis before the implementation of bedside reporting showed that nurses stayed a total of 1,421 hours, or 100 hours per month (range = 67-137 hours), past their clock-out times
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attention. Unfortunately, those poor souls are the ones that occupy these rooms. This brings us to Nurse Rempel, the head nurse, and a good one at that. Her bedside manner is the best; her personality is to die for, overshadowed only by her concern for her patients, which has gained her praise throughout the medical field, including her colleagues, patients, and their families. In addition, summing it up, Nurse Rempel is at the top of her field and like always, she is making her rounds, stopping at each
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Where & When is the Line Drawn for Ethics? Assess the situation Most nurses will perform their jobs without any problems ever arising due to ethic situations. As time changes though, so do the thoughts and perspectives of nurses and bystanders. Situations arise and their eyes are opened to see things outside of the box. This paper will discuss four different situations that have happened in the past couple of years, involving different aspects of nursing, all in which have received a lot of controversy
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Elder Abuse According to the National Research Council (2003) elder abuse is deliberate actions that cause injury or generate serious risk of harm to a vulnerable older adult by a caregiver or other person who is in charge of the elder. In the United States, 700,000 to 1.2 million of senior are exposed to abuse and there are 450,000 new cases yearly (Bond and Butler, 2013,p.). In fact, elder abuse and neglect is a serious health care matter that must be taken in consideration by health care providers
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In 1969, Dr. Bernice R. Sandler, was working as a part-time teacher at the University of Maryland (Ware, 2007). She was turned down when she applied for a position in her department, knowing there were openings for which she was very qualified (Ware, 2007). When asked why she was not considered, a colleague said to her, you come on “too strong for a woman” After this act of discrimination, and a couple of other failed applications, she became an activist for the rights of women in education (Maryland
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