Aspen N520 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care Module 6,7 and 8 Discussion and Module 2 Assignment
N520 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care
Module 6 Discussion
Please respond to ONE of the following prompts.
What type of role should nurses have securing informed consent? In assisting with research studies? In assisting with genetic testing?
OR
When a nurse reports abuse, should the accused be able to know the identity of his or her accuser? Should a nurse be sanctioned for reporting abuse if it proves to be false?
N520 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care
Module 7 Discussion
Please respond to ONE of the following prompts.
Debate why nurse should and should not donate their services.
OR
What advice should be given to nurses seeking employment as occupational health nurses or school nurses about their potential legal liability?
N520 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care
Module 8 Discussion
Please respond to ONE of the following prompts.
What questions on employment questionnaires or during employment interviews is the nurse allowed not to answer and should never have been asked?
OR
How does the doctrine of indemnification further the concept that individuals are ultimately responsible for their own actions?
N520 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care
Module 1 Assignment
Complete both case studies:
1. Apply Guido’s MORAL model to resolve the dilemma presented in the case study described in EXERCISE 4–3 (Guido textbook). How might the nurses in this scenario respond to the physician’s request? How would this scenario begin to cause moral distress among the nursing staff, and what are the positive actions that the nurses might begin to take to prevent moral distress?
2. Read the case study entitled You be the Ethicist, presented at the end of Chapter 3 (Guido textbook). What are the compelling rights that this case addresses? Whose rights should take precedence? Does a child (specifically this competent 14-year-old) have the right to determine what will happen to him? Should he ethically have this right? How would you have decided the outcome if his disease state had not intervened? Now, examine the scenario from the perspective of health care policy. How would you begin to evaluate the need for the policy and the possible support or lack of support for the policy from your peers, nursing management, and others who might be affected by the policy? Do the 10 framework questions outlined by Malone in chapter 4 (Guido textbook) assist in this process? Create a process proposal for the organization with possible guidelines, procedures, and policies to address the issues you have identified.
N520 Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care
Module 2 Assignment
Professional Development Exercises :
Describe why there is such a struggle when addressing end-of-life issues
What are the differences between allowing a patient to die and physician-assisted suicide?
Discuss the controversy that can occur when considering a patient’s right to know whether a caregiver has AIDS and the caregiver’s right to privacy and confidentiality.
Describe the distinctions among wrongful birth, wrongful life, and wrongful conception. Discuss the moral dilemmas of these concepts
Discuss the arguments for and against partial birth abortions
Discuss why there is controversy over genetic markers and stem cell research
Please combine all of these responses into a single Microsoft Word document for submission
Please submit only complete assignments (not partial or “draft” assignments).
Submit only the assignments corresponding to the module in this section.
You are not required to adhere to the 500-1000 word count for each of the responses, but please be thorough in your responses so that you adequately address all aspects of each question.