coordinate the delivery of numerous patient services‚ and administer high costly healthcare programmes (Weld and Garmon Bibb 2009). Due to the rapid expansion in the scope of nursing care and knowledge‚ nursing staff face greater responsibilities and require increasingly more skills; such is the importance of nursing law and ethics. The pace of change of law in this area is considerable as the role of the nurse is becoming more diverse. The pressure to keep up to date not
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Ethical Issues for Nurses Alexis Bushay HCA 322 Health Care Ethics & Medical Law Instructor: Jennine Kinsey August 18‚ 2012 Ethical Issues for Nurses Ethical issues have always affected the role of the professional nurse. Efforts to enact this standard may cause conflict in health care settings in which the traditional roles of the nurse are delineated within a bureaucratic structure. Nurses have more direct contact with patients than one can even imagine‚ which plays a huge role in protecting
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the Practice of Nursing but as nurses it is our responsibility and duty to keep up to date with changes being made that will effect our profession. The biggest concern nationwide seems to be the number of patients that a nurse can safely care for and while some states have regulations on that nurse-patient ratio many do not. Pennsylvania is going through a transitional period where two bills are being purposed and both can change the way we provide care. While safe staffing is an issue nationwide it
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of care plays an important role in assuring the standards of nursing performance. By providing specific performance requirements‚ standards of nursing performance can improve and provide quality of nursing care in health care settings (Scope & Standards‚ pg 33). Quality care is one of the most significant nursing standards of modern time. This particular standard must be implemented by nurse’s everyday. One of the main concerns in nursing practice today‚ is quality of care in the health care setting
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| | Professional Issues - LegislationCandidates can bring to the assessment event any notes‚ textbooks‚ handouts or other material according to centre rules. 1 As Network Manager you are asked to check out the e-mail traffic of a member of staff. What are the key points of legislation that you should consider before taking action? As a network manager‚ when asked to check email traffic of a member of staff‚ the key points of legislation top consider are the Data Protection Act (1998) is designed
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choosing to do what is right. People use ethics to guide in decision making throughout life. This foundation helps to direct us which path to take socially‚ educationally‚ and professionally. In nursing‚ ethics encompasses relationships with self‚ patients‚ and colleagues. Ethics is a part of the foundation of nursing. It defines how nurses provide care‚ empathy‚ and respect to others at all times‚ no matter the circumstances. As a profession‚ nurses frequently face
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focus on ethical and moral issues and note situations that appears to be dilemmas with the help of professional and ethical competence (Tschudin‚ 2002). Moreover unprofessional ethical practice may result to litigations if care was deemed not to be professionally sound. LEGAL ISSUES In conjunction to professional and ethical issues‚ legal issues is an emerging contemporary issues in nursing. Several studies and literatures have been written in relation to legal issues in the academic field‚ addressing
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Global Nursing Issues What Can Nurses Do? Lack of healthcare workers is causing healthcare crisis in developing countries. Nurses can choose to either volunteer on mission trips to underdeveloped countries‚ or can raise funds by joining organizations that sponsor volunteer efforts to underdeveloped countries. Description of Two Challenges Related to Providing Adequate Healthcare in Underdeveloped Countries One of the major challenges is poverty. According
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GNT 1 – 724.2.4-01-07 Contemporary Nursing Issues Mary Purvis Healthcare Issues In order to determine the safest and most appropriate discharge plan for this patient the case manager will work closely with the interdisciplinary team who is directly caring for the patient; together they will come up with the most effective‚ appropriate‚ and safest discharge plan. In this case study‚ there are several important healthcare issues the case manager needs to address with the team prior to
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Act 1987 is designed to protect consumers and give them rights when buying goods and services‚ eg manufacturers are legally obliged to put certain information on products‚ such as health and safety messages on cigarettes. The act covers a range of issues including fraud‚ unfair business practice‚ product liability and many other consumer and business activities. As well as being bound by
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