Ethical and Legal Issues in nursing The nursing regulatory body‚ the Nursing and Midwifery Council requires all registered nurses to have an understanding of the ethical and legal principles which underpin all aspects of nursing practice(NMC‚2010). A comprehensive understanding of current legal and ethical frameworks facilitates the delivery of appropriate skilled nursing care. The purpose of this assignment will be to critically discuss an episode of care encountered whilst on clinical placement
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY In the nursing field there are many cultural diversity issues. The issues with culture in nursing is that there will be patients that have different cultural beliefs and practices from one another. For this reason the nurse must keep this in mind and is taught how to behave‚ react‚ and respond to different cultures before entering and during his or her nursing career. The nurse must honor and respect all cultural differences as well as maintain equal and professional care for
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Ethical Issues relevant to the DNP- or PhD-Prepared Nurse Ethical issues/challenges faced during nursing practice are diverse; ranging from a potential of over-abusing power in position to getting burned out due to over-work to experiencing moral distress over patient suffering resulting from essential clinical practices. For the DNP prepared nurse‚ a number of issues can arise in the clinical scenario. The foremost of these is the moral burden of watching patients suffer‚ either before or after
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Since the nursing practice begun‚ there have been many issues affecting this practice some of the issues are negative while others are positive. Current issues provide opportunities for debates about matters affecting nurses currently. The current issues help in providing forums to examine the contradicting views on the demands and difficulties that the nursing field is facing which affect the delivery of healthcare. The debating of current critical issues encourages independent thinking whereby
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such as this one are a common occurrence that‚ unfortunately‚ forensic nurses face in their everyday work. Although there are a vast number of nurses in the world‚ only a fraction of them are forensic nurses. Forensic nursing is a nursing field with subspecialties that focus on nursing practices that care for victims of violent crimes‚ such as sexual assault‚ at the clinical and legal level. Forensic nurses bring together medical practices and the justice system in making sure that clinicians or medical
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what ought or ought not to be done‚ either as action or process (Staunton & Chiarella‚ 2012). 3. Nursing ethics are intended to provide definite standards of practice and conduct that are essential to the ethical discharge of the nurse’s responsibility. It is a guide to making ethical decision and practice that indicates to the greater community the standards in which nurses are expected to uphold (Nursing and Midwifery Board
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standards. The nurse’s education license and nursing standard establish the ground work in which nurses are to meet. If their practice drops below acceptable standards of care and competence will ultimately open the nurse up to litigation (2011). It is important for the health care profession to obey all laws that have been put in place to avoid un- wanted legal and ethical issues. Ethical and Legal Issues (2017) explain how the legal implications of nursing practices are linked to licensure‚ state
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It is important that nursing ethical decision should be based on ethical principles. Nurse’s ethical decisions should be beneficial with less harm for a patient. The core task for practicing nurses when confronted with ethical dilemmas is to maintain moral integrity‚ defined as living up to personal and professional ethical beliefs by acting honestly‚ being trustworthy‚ and consistently supporting and doing what is right (Davis‚ Schrader‚ & Belcheir‚ 2012) The nursing goal in dealing with the
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A t it’s very core‚ nursing practice “deals with issues and situations that have elements of ethical or moral uncertainty” (Burkhardt‚ Nathaniel‚ & Walton 2014‚ p. 21). In my limited experience‚ this has proved very true. I have encountered numerous situations that‚ in reflection‚ could be considered ethical dilemmas. As I was not necessarily able to recognize this in the moment‚ I feel that there is significant room for growth in my ability to confront these issues. In this paper‚ I will discuss
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that they are providing the utmost safe and ethical care (CNA‚ 2017). By following the guidelines in the Code of Ethics‚ nurses are more likely to provide better care and decrease the chance of potential errors. In current times‚ many nurses face issues that inhibit them from providing the best care to their patients. Examples of such hindering factors are long hours‚ time constraints‚ staff shortages‚ and high work demands
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