Question

Select five legal or ethical concepts that you feel influence nursing practice.

Develop the concepts for both the impact on agency viability and quality patient care.

Review the concepts and strategically analyze for priorities, challenges, and issues from a legal and ethical perspective

Identify instances of actions taken by an agency or provider that would or could violate the ethical duties and responsibilities of the health care providers or the rights of patients

Include a policy proposal, measures, and recommendations for prevention of legal and ethical violations

How could nursing intervene or advocate to incorporate legal and ethical theories and principles more effectively into practice

Answer 1

Five legal or ethical concepts of nursing practice:
   -protect client's rights it helps to make protection for independent nursing action..it maintain a standard nursing practice making nurses accoundable under the law..
-Informed consent by a client course of treatment being fully informed..
-avoid medication errors
-Proper document of all actions about patient's care..
-report any allegations of abuse toward a vulnerable populations..
Agency viability and quality of care:
-Agency viability is hospital ability to generate and maintain an inflow of financial resources..in united states all the hospitals effectively and efficiently running to provide patients best service and care..In 1970 health care spending around 75billion dollar by in 2021 it will be expected to 5trillion dollar..Agency must be aware of cost increases,providers prices,medical technology,waste,unhealthy lifestyles,aging population and taxes..hospitals can have a positive impact on this but other factors like unhealthy lifestyles more difficult to be control..Nursing-sensitive adverse outcomes should be viewed than as staffing on patient outcome..To improve quality of care nurse staffing must be more..
Key ethical issues in public health:
   Public health ethics must solve problem for individual protecting from harm and promoting the highest attainable standard of health..infection control treatement and prevention can therefore raise difficult..ethical issues related to distribution justice..health promotion and equity by vaccination against diphtheria and tetanus,avoiding cultural and social factors in tobacco and smoking control and avoiding consumption of unhealthy foods..
   Health policy decisions can be ethically challenging for goals,competing stake-holders interests,conflicting values..there is no rationally for improve quality decisions by examining ethical issues from diverse perspectives..Stake holders can help in such a way by surveys,interviews,public meetings to discuss the issues..
Instances of action violating ethical duties:
where a particular treatment,intervention,activity or practice is morally objectionable to the nurse..the nurse is refusing to participate on moral grounds,professional standard are there to provide guidance and patient care to be the right one..Pharmacist and their employeers will need to develop processes that support the decision of the individual paharmacist but they have to provide appropriate service the patients seeks..nurses have the right to refuse to assist in the performance of abortion but they have the responsibility to provide high quality care in emergency situation..autonomy by physician in amny ways for patient treatement,,there is nothing for autonomy for physician to refuse treatemnt for patient being discussed is legally acceptable within the jurisdiction in which the physician is practicing..