DNP-815A Lopes Activity Tracker Submission
Assessment Description
For this assignment, you will need to submit a summary of practice immersion hours earned up to this point in the course. All practice immersion hours showing on this summary must be approved by your preceptor/mentor. It is your responsibility to ensure your preceptor/mentor approves all submissions within 72 hours. Download a summary of your practicum hours from Lopes Activity Tracker. Save the file and submit it through the assignment dropbox in the digital classroom. In addition, learners must upload this deliverable to the Learner Dissertation Page (LDP) in the DNP PI Workspace for later use.
Ethical decision-making involves strategies that will help organize your moral principles from standards, thus aiding in customer focused decisions. According to Edgar (2002
), nurses in occupational and environmental health are faced with daily ethical considerations. To help with decision making it is encouraged that one take courses, read book and articles about ethical decision making to enhance this skill. Ethics has become a critical component to humanity due to current technology. Based on my post regarding the COVID mandate for healthcare workers, I will provide responses from the ethical decision-making model.
When using the ethical decision-making model components highlighted by Johnson (2021), component one is
actions: my selected course of action would be to formulate a committee that will include key stake holders to assist in this decision for the staff. Next is Review: we need to review current state requirements and standards to issue a mandate id warranted. Intrapersonal and interpersonal is how we engage in self reflection and our consumers. I would ask that whatever decision came from the committee be done by the committee as well. Self-motivating: this involves testing the decision and the outcomes then reengaging as needed. Perspective taking this I feel is the most important and it involved considering how it will affect those involved. This will help us device a plan that will be feasible to all even those not willing to abide by the mandate. After considering all of this I do feel ethically we addressed the ethical dilemma. A little more consideration could have been given in relation to the effects of the decision such as the staffing considerations and staff religious exemptions.
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Edgar, P. H. (2002). Resolving Ethical Dilemas: Applying the Institute for Global Ethics’ Ethical FitnessTM Model to Occupational and Environmental Health Practice Issues. AAOHN Journal, 50(1), 40–47. https://doi.org/10.1177/216507990205000110
Johsons, M.K., Weeks, S.N., Peacock, G.g., Rodriquez, M.M. (2022). Ethical decision-making models: a taxonomy of models and review of issues, Ethics & Behavior, 32:3, 195-209, DOI: 10.1080/10508422.2021.1913593