Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Nurses encounter ethical and legal issues each day caring for patients. Technology has advanced tremendously over the last few decades leading to more complex patient situations. The legal and ethical issues of two case studies will be examined to explain the dilemmas faced in health care today. The first case study concerns a nurse’s observance of negligence and a malpractice suit. The second is regarding the difficult decision of a family regarding medical decisions
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quantity of autonomy based on legal, ethical and moral restrictions, if this is the case, is this autonomy at all? Placement experiences will be given in relation to patient autonomy and related ethical, legal and professional issues will be supported and/ or contrasted by relevant literature. Patient autonomy and capacity, consent, compliance, coercion and paternalism with be considered. In an attempt to show a deeper understanding and ability to apply theory to practice, the moral theories of liberal
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Description of the Ethical Issue In a technological world protecting patients’ information has become harder and harder to maintain. Todays new threat is social media. According to Elizabeth Scruth, et. al, (2015) social netweorking is one of the most common types of social media being used (para. 5). We live in an era where social media is being used as our own personal journals. Everyday personal experiences and the happenings of our day to day lives are constantly being posted on social networking
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Ethical decision making in healthcare NRS-437V Jyoti Battar Grand Canyon University February 2nd, 2014 Breaking confidentiality is never ethical and is also losing faith between the patient-nurse relationships or amongst healthcare providers. The minute a patient walks into a health care setting they feel a trusting bond with the providers and expect reciprocation. The U.S. department of health and human services has the office of civil rights which imposes the “Health Insurance Portability
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Personal practice related to ANA scope of practice As a nurse, one must follow a scope of practice, what is expected of them within their role of the nursing profession. These guidelines shape the responsibility of the professional nursing organization and serve to protect the public. According to, Nursing’s Social Policy Statement: The Essence of the Profession (American Nurses Association, 2010, p. 3) defines contemporary nursing: “Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health
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As professional Registered Nurses (RN’s) maintaining patient confidentiality is very important. Confidentiality is defined as “the right of an individual patient to have personal, identifiable medical information kept private.” (http://www.ceus-nursing.com/courses/material_detail). This information should only be shared with the physician, nurse and other members of the health care team. The imperative of confidentiality can be traced back to the Hippocratic Oath not to reveal secrets, and to the
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challenging ethical dilemmas in providing care for their patients. Some of the challenging dilemmas include providing care that will prolong life but decrease quality of life, euthanasia, whether to break confidentiality to provide care for a patient, stem cell research, etc. Currently, ethical decisions in the nursing profession and health care are becoming more complex. Due to this change nurses today require advanced problem solving ability and critical thinking skills to deal with ethical issues. Patient’s
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are advised by private direction to be in agreement with performing illegal medical practice actions. However, if they are new to situations like this they will not be aware that making such decisions can lead to ethical and legal issues. In the case of Jerry McCall it gives an excellent explanation of how the health care departments have been modified today. Does Jerry’s medical training qualify him to issue the refill Order? Why or Why not? Jerry is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) and has
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they provide to ensure they are not subject to accusations of negligence, or gross negligence that can lead to malpractice suits. This paper will differentiate between negligence, gross negligence, and malpractice. In order to further examine these issues an article titled “Amputation mishap, negligence cited” from The Neighborhood News in which “Earlier this week, 62-year-old Joseph Benson underwent an amputation of his leg just below the left knee and only suffered one complication- the wrong leg
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Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma Grand Canyon University Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma Euthanasia is considered “assisted suicide” (Ethical key issues- Euthanasia., 2011). Terminally ill, old age, and poor disease prognosis’s are some population of patients that research euthanasia. Euthanasia is currently illegal due to many ethical implications. Euthanasia is an ongoing ethical dilemma that affects nursing as a profession, has legal implications, and stirs up ethical debates over social values
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