INTRODUCTION Pediatric nursing or child health nursing is the specialty nursing care of infants‚ children and adolescents. Pediatric nursing is an excellent career for those who love kids and don’t mind hard work. The day of a pediatric nurse can be hectic‚ working with patients that range from newborns to teenagers. No two days are ever the same. Pediatric nurses work mostly on the pediatric halls in hospitals‚ although some may also work in a doctor’s office. The work involved
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Emotional abuse is reportedly the top form of abuse documented by the residents in nursing homes according to study done by the Journal of Adult Protection. In their study‚ there were more than five patients that had reported being emotionally abused by their caregivers (Goergen 131). Keep in mind that this number may seem small but this is one nursing home we are talking about. If every nursing home did this study‚ thousands of residents could be affected getting the same treatment every day. Surveillance
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Financial abuse is sometimes called material exploitation or financial exploitation. Financial abuse occurs when an individual’s property‚ assets or funds are used illegally or improperly. Patients who are in a nursing home might be in a unique situation to fall victim to financial abuse‚ as they might be unaware of the fraud being inflicted upon them. Most residents are unaware of the financial abuse that involves their money or assets. An investigation should be launched immediately if family members
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Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Issues The ethical dilemma is that the children of the woman with cancer are not being cared for adequately. The nurse must decide if it is ethically and morally sound to tell the school nurse about the daughters’ situation at home. Since the nurse is the caretaker of the mother and knows that she needs to keep her information about her health confidential. However‚ it is affecting the mental stability of her daughters because they are afraid of their mother’s declining
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Ethical principles are a guide for the physicians that help them to a better delivery of health care. Beneficence means doing everything for the sake of the patient‚ so all actions are intended to benefit the patient. A good example of it is all the procedures applied in an ER room are intended to save the patient’s life. Non-maleficence is based on the idea of “doing no harm‚” is very similar to the principle of beneficence. Basically for the principle of non-maleficence means to be the direct
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Addressing end-of-life measures is a common ethical issue that nurses experience on a daily basis‚ especially nurses who work in the critical care setting. Ethical concerns dealing with this particular type of care normally revolves around the interest of patients‚ commonly known as autonomy or self-determination. The Code of Ethics defines autonomy and self-determination as the philosophical basis for informed consent in healthcare giving the patient the right to determine what healthcare measures
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The rates of substance abuse among nurses were found to be similar to those of the general population. Kunyk (2015) concluded that although nurses thought those suffering from a substance abuse disorder should receive aid through their employers‚ support for these nurses was inefficient. The most frightening truth about substance abuse in the nursing community is that it could happen to anyone. Those nurses who suffer from drug addiction
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statistics‚ nurses must serve as the forefront of recognition and intervention because they often interact with these victims while they are still under the control of their trafficker (Miller‚ 2013). Awareness and education about DMST within the nursing
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ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES OF NURSING Many confusing factors make it a task to establish‚ monitor and sustain ethical and legal issues in nursing. Everyone has various personal views based on experiences of life‚ religion‚ education and political affiliations‚ all nurses should be aware about nursing laws and ethics and understand how nursing legal issues can affect them. The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics is very influential to nurses because it is used as a framework
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Prescription Abuse Seen In U.S. Nursing Homes Powerful Antipsychotics Used to Subdue Elderly; Huge Medicaid Expense By LUCETTE LAGNADO December 4‚ 2007; Page A1 In recent years‚ Medicaid has spent more money on antipsychotic drugs for Americans than on any other class of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics‚ AIDS drugs or medicine to treat highblood pressure. One reason: Nursing homes across the U.S. are giving these drugs to elderly patients to quiet symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and
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