In every nurse ’s career‚ the nurse is faced with many legal or ethical dilemmas. Nurses are accountable and responsible for their own morals‚ decisions and behaviors. Nurses are accountable for judgments made and actions taken in the course of nursing practice‚ irrespective of healthcare organizations policies or providers ’ directives‚ which may not always be in the best interest of the patient. It is a nurses’ obligation to decide what is in the best interest of the patient. Using the Josephson
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There are two distinct models of disability that seek to empower those with disabilities- the medical model and the social model. The medical model refers to a disability as a “physical or mental impairment of the individual and its person with social consequences. It regards the limitations faced by people with disabilities as resulting primarily‚ or solely‚ from their impairments” Wasserman et al (2011). Under the medical model people are defined by their illness or medical condition. The medical
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Introduction Tele-nursing is the use of telecommunications technology such as videos‚ computers and tele-monitoring technologies to provide nursing care and advice at a distance. This growing technology offers many advantages in the delivery of healthcare information‚ disease monitoring‚ health promotion and disease prevention services‚ as well as nursing diagnosis‚ treatment and education to patient at home from a centralized location. Tele-nursing can be instrumental in helping patients
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Negligence In Nursing Defined‚ Described‚ Destroyed Brian Dixon Devry University Abstract In the past the word negligence normally only encompassed the wrongs of a physician and at that time there was a distinct division between a nurse and a physician. The roles of nurses today however have changed quite drastically. Today’s nurses have assumed many functions and responsibilities that were previously performed solely by the physician. As the roles of nurses have advanced and the profession
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Nursing Shortage and Nursing Turnover Nursing shortage is a phenomenon that is affecting nurses and the provision of adequate patient care in today’s health care industry. Nursing shortage is said to occur when the demand for employment of nurses is far greater than the number of nurses willing to be employed at that time (Huber‚ 2010). According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (A.A.C.N.)‚ “the nursing shortage is expected to increase as baby boomers age‚ and the need for health
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Confidentiality of Health Information‚ HIT 109 Research Project Number: 40903400 In the American Medical Associations or AMA website under the‚ “ AMA Code of Medical Ethics‚ Opinion 5.07” a number of important issues are discussed regarding the confidentiality of medical records on computers. The information in computers is a vital point when it comes to confidentiality and the issues discussed are used to in order to maintain‚ organized and ensure the confidentiality of medical information. I
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I will be writing about why obtaining doctor and patient confidentiality is very crucial to a certain extent by using the article “Protect Doctor-Patient Confidentiality” by Sandeep Jauhar in the New York Times. While addressing this topic‚ I will use it to persuade my audience‚ doctors‚ that the trust between doctors and their patients is needed for not only the patient’s health but also the patient’s trust. I will be imitating Virginia Woolf‚ the author of “Shakespeare’s Sister”‚ by using different
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Introduction Over time in health care there have been times in which‚ the directors of the hospital have been trying to get rid of Licensed Practical Nurse or LPNs and want their nursing staff to only be Registered Nurses or RNs. If LPNs are eliminated there will be a huge nursing shortage in the hospital setting. If a LPNs is currently working in a hospital setting are told to get their RN by a date or they will be fired. This is a problem because older LPN that is close to retirement they are not
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before selecting a product. Namely; how computerized management systems could increase quality of care. Why active nursing involvement in planning‚ choice‚ and implementation of the system is important. How handheld devices used by nursing staff can be integrated into the management system for better quality of care. I will discuss the security standards of data and patient confidentiality‚ including the need for data storage integrity and data backup and recovery and how HIPPA requirements impact the
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Ethical Issues on Confidentiality: Research and Medical Procedures Al Borbs HCS/335 January 20‚2014 Ethical Issues on Confidentiality: Research and Medical Procedures A guiding principle followed by most administrators and health care providers is the concept that ethical principles must match the values of the whole organization. This belief should serve as a continuous teaching to all staff so that the organization’s goals may be uniformly achieved
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