HLTEN509B Apply Legal and Ethical Parameters to Nursing Practices Jo-Anne McKenzie Student number: 375532492 Due: 18/7/13 Complete answers for the following questions 1) Elijah Rasmussen, 18 years old, has been admitted to your local health facility for surgery. Elijah is placed into the care of the nurse. Why should nursing practice be conducted within the acts/guidelines of Commonwealth and State laws? It is a legal requirement. Nurses are accountable for their professional judgment and actions.
Nursing Theorist Grid Use grid below to complete the Week 4-Nursing Theorists assignment. Please see the “Nursing Theorists’ Grading Criteria” document, located on the Materials page of the student Web site. Name: kisha Theorist Selected: Dorothea Orem Description of Theory: According to Somchit, (1989), Orem’s theory, “Focuses on self-care needs of the patient and is a deliberate action of the nurse who views patients in terms of their self-care capacity. Orem has specified the relationship of her concepts into a set of theories that are interrelated in nursing: theory of self-care deficit, theory of self- care, and theory of nursing systems. With Orem’s theory the focus of nursing is the individual, more specifically the individual’s self-care requisites.
Florida views the advanced practice nurse the same as Nebraska. Nursing practice for the RN is the physical interaction between the nurse and patient. It begins with an assessment of the patient’s needs by methods of interviewing the patient and the family on health status, physical examination and by reviewing records. Nurses all get together and develop a plan of care specifically for that patient to improve overall health. If all in the plan fails, it is revised and tried again until something works for that person.
The last one, Health Deviation, which meant the needs of the patient that related to their health condition. She believed that nurses had to evaluate their patients and determine what their “Self Care Deficits” were. She categorized in three ways. If a patient needed complete nursing care because patient is not able to do anything for themselves. They were Total Compensation.
Competencies: ADN level VS. BSN level The upmost importance of the difference in nursing degree competencies is education. There are 2 types of degrees levels for a registered nurse, ADN and BSN, which will be discussed in this paper. Both degree level of nursing focus on the holistic approach of caring for patient’s, which includes, physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and social issues. The education level differs. I will also be using a clinical case scenario that will describe how nursing care decision making may differ based on the clinical decisions of an ADN and BSN.
Duty of care: 4 3. Primary health care (PHC) 4 Q 4: Other than the hospital environment list 3 environments where might you find nurses delivering health care and define the role? 5 Q 5:Discuss the 6 principles of Wellness. 6 Q 6: Enrolled nurses provide “Basic nursing care” under the direction of Registered Nurses or Doctors. What is ‘what is basic nursing care?
Identify 4 similarities and 4 differences between the LPN and RN scopes of practice. (8 pts.) NOTE: If you are a student in the state of Florida, please list four areas of IV therapy that are out of the scope of practice for the LPN (2 points each for 8 pt.) Similarities: • Both RN and LPN provide clear directions and guidelines regarding the delegated task or, for routine tasks on stable clients. • Both RN and LPN observe and communicate the outcomes of the delegated task.
For specific regulation and eligibility requirements contact your State’s regulatory board. State regulation of speech-language pathologists may differ for pathologists practicing in schools. For information on State regulation of speech-language pathologists in public schools contact your State’s Department of Education. The Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) credential offered by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is a voluntary credential; however, the CCC-SLP meets some or all of the requirements for licensure in some States. To earn a CCC, a person must have a graduate degree from an accredited university, which typically includes a 400-hour supervised clinical practicum, complete a 36-week full-time postgraduate clinical fellowship, and pass the Praxis Series examination in
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.
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing; 9 (4) 381-389 McKim J., Jollie C., Hatter M. (2007) Mentoring: Theory and Practice Myell M, Levett-Jones T., Lathlean J. (2006) Mentorship in contemporary practice: The experience of Nursing students and practice mentors; Journal of Clinical Nursing 17,