Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing NUR/391 February 3‚ 2014 Patricia Shaw Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Nurses today face many ethical dilemmas in the delivery of patient care. What can or should be done for the patient versus the wishes of the patient’s physician conflicting with the personal beliefs the nurse holds to be true. The client’s wishes may conflict with the institutional policies‚ physician professional opinion‚ the client’s family desires‚ or even the laws of the state
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Legal & Ethical Issues in Nursing Michelle R. Stelly Term I: Writing Project 2010 Mrs. VanIwaarden 10/11/2010 Nurses are subject to a plethora of legal‚ ethical‚ and professional duties which can be very challenging. These duties are generally considered to be to respect a patient ’s confidentiality and autonomy and to recognize the duty of care that is owed to all patients. As nurses our duties are always professional‚ however there are legal implications if these duties are
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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 and Legal Issues Paper Christel Rockwood NURS/391 March 11‚ 2014 Renee Martin-Thornton Ethical and Legal Issues Ethics is an integral part to nursing practice. The American Code of Ethics for Nurses (ANA) with interpretive statements acts as a guide for professional conduct by outlining the ethical values of the profession. The Code provides the profession
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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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Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing Nursing as a profession‚ holds itself to a standard of practice and a code of ethics that governs this discipline. It was well put by Nicholson (2012)‚ “Nonprofessionals cannot be held to the standards of the medical professions‚ but persons who have been specially trained‚ educated and licensed are accountable for performance that deviates from the customs of their field.” To function effectively‚ nurses need to be aware of their contents and incorporate them
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workplace. Reference Henderson‚ M.‚ & Dahnke‚ M. D. (2015). The Ethical Use of Social Media in Nursing Practice. MEDSURG Nursing‚ 24(1)‚ 62-64. Retrieved from Ebscohost.com Griffith‚ R. (2017). Professionalism in practice: the Coroner’s Court. British Journal Of Community Nursing‚ 22(1)‚ 685-687. Retrieved from Ebscohost.com Potter‚ P.‚ Perry‚ A.‚ Stockert‚ P.‚ and Hall‚ A.‚ (2015). Essential for Nursing Practice (8th edition)‚ St Louis MO: Elsevier
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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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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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