P4 –Explain how national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practice Not every individual working in a health and social care setting is expected to know all the laws that promote anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care. However it is important to know the existence of the laws and principles that helps to safeguard service users‚ their families and the care providers as well. In this booklet‚ I will be explaining the term national initiatives with an explanation of how it promotes
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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 injury
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Krautscheid (2014) suggests that professional nursing accountability is an aspect that underpins professional nursing practice and is frequently described by professional nursing organisations however it can be difficult to describe and define with no consistent language or definition available in the literature. Kozier (2012) suggests it is the ability and willingness to assume responsibility for your actions and accepting consequences of your behaviour. The development of the role of the clinical
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Nur391 January 14‚ 2010 Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing The American Nurse’s Association’s code of ethics provides guidelines to help nurses make ethical decisions with the patient’s needs as the main focus of concern. In the case where Marianne‚ a 79-year-old woman who is admitted for a hemorrhagic stroke and her family is in conflict over the decision to have surgery or not to have surgery‚ the code of ethics expresses the need for the nurse to be
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Principles of Nursing and Health Assignment This is essay is going to examine the principles of nursing and health. In order to do this it must look at the concept of health then describe the dimensions that make up health. Secondly‚ an adult individual will be chosen in order to discuss the determinants that affect their health. It will then go on to explain the underpinning professional‚ ethical and legal principles that would be taken into consideration if the individual were to require nursing
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they will be treated with kindness. One of the specific norms that arise from this principle is for caregivers to appreciate the complexity of life and make sound decisions for the good of others. The next ethical principle in this case is non-maleficence which requires caregivers to do no harm. This concept is the basis of the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians. This principle is not concerned with improving a patient’s well-being‚ but rather avoiding the infliction of harm to a patient (Pogzar
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The exemplar that shall be discussed and analysed would be the empowerment exemplar. In order to analyse the ethical decisions made‚ it is important to assess the patient holistically. It is important to assess the impact that the symptoms may have on the patient’s quality of life. For instance‚ would amputating her leg immobilise her? Physically‚ if the patient is to remain not amputated would that increase the risk of infection or would the ulcers worsen? The risk factors should also be assessed
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Fiduciary Responsibility Shana Bates City University of Seattle Business Ethics Amy Thiele June 20‚ 2014 Introduction This paper discusses in detail the issue of fiduciary responsibility. A fiduciary relationship describes an association in which an individual is vested with the obligation of caring for another person’s rights or property. The fiduciary relationship is supposed to be a very special and confidential association where the fiduciary must be honor-bound to legally accomplish
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Ethical Issues in Pharmacy Research Reflection There is abundant evidence showing how easy it is to exploit individuals in the history of medical research in the twentieth century. It was not until the early 1960s when the public began to take notice of the ethical neglect that researchers had for their subjects. The exposure of gross abuses in medical research generated a public furor that was finally noticed by those who administered research funding which enabled changes to policy to begin to
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physicians should comply with the expressed wishes of a competent adult patient even if the predicted consequences are unfavorable or grave” (p. 275-280). No maleficence and beneficence are ethical principles that could be used to contradict the patient’s ethical rights in specific situations. Macklin (2009) states that the “principle of no maleficence requires physicians to avoid harm‚ whenever possible‚ so withholding a proven‚ beneficial treatment is likely to have the consequence of producing harm”
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