Nurses have a legal liability to advocate for patients, and provide safe administration of medications, and provide quality, nursing care to patients without negligence. The ANA code of Ethics requires that Nurses do no harm. New regulations in nursing practices can create situations of conflict between ethical nursing practice and the law. Nurses need to follow the law. Nurses need to keep themselves cognizant of changes in the nurse practice acts and how they are affected by these changes.
This decision was reached after the consultant, named nurse, patient and the patient’s family discussed together and based their decision on the patient’s age, condition, quality of life and wishes. The UKCC ‘Code of Professional Conduct’ (1992) states that every registered nurse, midwife, and Health Visitor should act, at all times, in such a manner as to … promote and safeguard the interests and well-being of patients and clients [and to] ensure that no action or omission on your part, or within your sphere of responsibility, is detrimental to the interests, condition or safety of patients and clients. Therefore, how does withholding life-saving treatment, comply with the ‘Code of Professional Conduct’? The decision not to resuscitate conflicts with this clause of a document that aims to define and develop professional standards to protect the public and offer direction regarding the suitable conduct of the profession (Kenworthy et al, 1999). The conflict arises because the decision not to resuscitate could be seen as not promoting the well being of the patient and an omission on the nurse’s part, causing detrimental consequences (Rumbold, 1999).
Professional Roles and Values Professional Roles and Values Functional Differences A regulatory agency, such as the Texas Board of Nursing, is a government agency that has a goal of protecting the people of the state by ensuring that licensed nurses are capable and are able to practice safely. It’s most functional role is to help manage nursing practice by setting standards for the manner in which each nurse practices, by way of the Nurse Practice Act, and the regulation of nursing education programs (Texas Board of Nursing, 2013). Whereas the role of a professional nursing organization, such as the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN), is to provide resources for nurses to help support them in their careers. This includes, but not limited, to a guideline for a code of ethics, educational opportunities, resources for jobs, as well as representing nurses at a national level for legislation. Another difference between them is that the professional nursing organizations are run by its members (fellow nurses).
No matter what the circumstances surrounding conception an innocent life was created. It is the parent’s responsibility to protect the child. Pro Choice may never get the full support its supporters would like due to cultures and religious beliefs. Pro Choice is available to not pass judgment but to be a shoulder to lean on when there is no other. It is an option that provides quality care, privacy and responsibility for
The nurse witnessed and reported to the hospital a direct violation of unsafe clinical practices of patient safety by a colleague and the hospital allowed the nurse to continue providing patient care, without consequence. The nurse is responsible, as defined the Code of Ethics, to report to the court the other instances she had recorded of the nurse on trial practicing unsafely. The nurse acting as a witness is also expected to be truthful and honest. If the nurse is questioned whether or not she observed the defendant being unsafe in any other situations, the nurse is required to answer honestly and provide what she observed her colleague doing, as it is her legal duty to the patients for her to provide factual
SHOULD NURSE PRACTITIONERS PRESCRIBE CONTROLLED Should Nurse Practitioners Prescribe Controlled Substances? Nakeya Booth Central Methodist University Business Concepts AH 330 Paul Compley, Ph.D. December 13, 2009 Should Nurse Practitioners Prescribe Controlled Substances? The role of the Nurse Practitioner, also known as the advanced practice nurse, is to provide health care services to patients, families, and communities. They are specially trained to diagnose, and are able to control the common, chronic and acute heath care conditions. The practitioner can either work with the physician or choose to work alone to provide their health care services.
It protects women from being forced to quit because they are pregnant. This act also states that employers must allow pregnant women the same rights as employees with other medical issues. This includes disability, sick leave, and a health insurance policy that includes coverage for pregnancy. In addition, maternity leave needs to be available but not mandatory. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 has to do with wrongful discharge suits and the damages that are awarded the employee involved in the suit.
ANA recognizes the authority and responsibility of boards of nursing to investigate complaints, hold hearings and render findings on issues concerning nurse licensure. Therefore, ANA typically does not become involved during the investigation and adjudication of a case concerning a nurse’s license. The facts of a case before a board of nursing generally are only available to the regulatory body, which is uniquely positioned to evaluate the complaint and defense. ANA appreciates how difficult it is for a nurse to undergo an investigation of his or her practice by the state board of nursing. ANA expects state boards of nursing to follow standard procedures, render unbiased judgments and be fully transparent in their
It’s clear that we need to protect and keep any and all private information as privileged (Marshall, J., 2004). Privileged information can sometimes come out at the most in unsuspected ways. A nurse is going over a patient’s last visit with them in the room next door to yours; now there are no doors to shut only curtains for privacy when you overhear that the results of their HIV test was positive. Now, would you say that this was a breach of the HIPAA law? The answer would be yes, being that you are aware of your surroundings and how your office is set up, one must know how to be more discrete than to speak so loudly.
The characteristics are transparency, fairness, active leadership, and psychological safety. Transparency implies its definition; primarily errors are reported and not hidden, especially about patient care. The transparency is not only related to reporting the patient errors but also reporting the reason and addressing cause behind errors, the corrective actions, and accepting accountability for said errors. The interdisciplinary team members will be encouraged that the ‘blame game’ is not the environment they are working in, but focusing at a ‘broken system’ and what can be done to safe-guard the patient and staff from the errors that were present in the system. Fairness is a way to level the playing field when system based errors effect the actions of a team member and again refers back to the ‘blame-game’ regarding system based errors.