The past eight weeks has been a crash course in the ethical decision making in nursing. It has been an opportunity to reflect upon experiences in my own career as well as stories shared by other nursing professionals. The nursing process is a set of steps used by nurses to collect data‚ make assessments and a plan of care to meet the health care needs of the patient. (The 5 Steps of the Nursing Process‚ 2016). During this process there are a number of conclusions which are made. It is the nurse’s
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For centuries‚ psychiatric hospitals have been used in America as an approach to control the mentally ill. As a matter of fact‚ “psychiatric hospitals‚ also known as mental hospitals and mental asylums‚ are hospital or wards specializing in the treatment of serious psychiatric illnesses” (“Psychiatric Hospitals”). Although the very first psychiatric hospital in the world was opened in 705 AD by Muslims in Baghdad‚ the first in America was not established until the late 18th century. These hospitals
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Introduction It is widely accepted that clinical interviewing is the fundamental diagnostic tool in psychiatry. Indeed‚ Schreiber states that “the psychiatric interview is the essential vehicle for assessment of the psychiatric patient.” Unlike other areas of medicine‚ psychiatry lacks external validating criteria‚ such as lab tests or imaging‚ to help confirm or exclude diagnoses. With the clinician’s diagnosis and subsequent treatment plan being determined by the clinical data obtained from the
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be registered and comply with the standards and codes set by The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) which is overseen by The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. (AHPRA) The governing body for the 14 National boards for health professionals‚ which maintains the high standards that are expected in the healthcare industry. APRAH is responsible for protecting the public‚ setting national standards‚ publishing the online register‚ registering health practitioners‚ accrediting
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation lournai Copyright 2007 Trustees of Boston University DOi: 10.2975/31.1.2007.32.37 2007‚ Volume 31‚ No. 1‚ 32-37 ARTICLE Recovery: A Common Vision for the Fields of Mental Health and Addictions V Cheryl Gagne Boston University WiUiam White Chestnut Health Systems‚ Bloomington‚ Illinois William A. Anthony Boston University The vision of recovery is reshaping the fields of mental health and addiction services. This paper reviews how this broad vision
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Should People Be Labeled With a Psychiatric Diagnosis? II. Thesis Statement Throughout this paper‚ issues will be discussed regarding the question of whether labels should be placed on the people who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric illness. I believe that the current methods of classifying and identifying these individuals does not have the patients bests interests in mind‚ partly due to the negative stigmas that come hand in hand with the label. I find that aside from the benefits that
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------------------------------------------------- REACTION PAPER Nursing Laws and Ethics As nursing profession continuously progresses in its quest for excellence‚ its nature becomes complex in the light of meeting the standards set forth by the implementing bodies in nursing profession. These standards are indeed the result of careful assessment and observation made to resolve the never ending issues and concerns pertaining to the legal responsibilities and ethical obligations of nurses.
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The American Holistic Nurse Association Position statement on Holistic Nursing Ethics informs us of several pertinent standards of care in disastrous conditions; we will review how the Nurses and Society approach applies in desolate times. Nurses and society emphasizes nurse working along with fellow citizens to begin and sustain activity to meet the health and social needs of others (Dossey & Keegan‚ 2016‚ p. 126). This is especially important in times of disasters; it appears as an innate response
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Waking up early morning to go to work‚ I am fully charged and excited like many other nurses‚ who have chosen nursing profession to help others and to improve the quality of life for all. This mantra has not changed since the days of Florence Nightingale. It is very clear that nursing profession is dependent on one’s morals towards their patients along with a sense of responsibility. The first step in ethical decision making is identifying one’s own value system through introspection and self-reflection
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The code of ethics ensures that nurses do what is right by committing to respect‚ advocate‚ and improve the quality while making the right decisions based on the ethical provisions given by the Code (Schroeter p. 87). The code of ethics binds nurses into nonnegotiable principles that are the base on the fundamental values‚ commitments‚ boundaries of duty‚ loyalty and duties that the nurse extends beyond just patient encounters (Schroeter p. 87). The codes purpose is to support and outline the
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