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Decision Making Process Paper Instructions and Rubric - Topic Submission Assignment
Journal Content:
1. This week you will submit your TOPIC and OUTLINE for your decision-making Making Process Paper
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End-of-Life Care and Decision-Making
Nurses often play a vital role in end-of-life care, supporting patients and their families through decision-making. This can involve addressing issues like withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, palliative care, and do-not-resuscitate orders.
Topic Examples to Explore
The role of nurses in end-of-life care Decision-making
Advance care planning and nursing responsibilities
The ethics of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment
Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders: nursing perspectives and ethical considerations
Palliative sedation: a controversial end-of-life care option
End-of-life care in intensive care units: ethical dilemmas
Ethical issues and disciplinary actions in ross medical pharmacy fraud case
Communication strategies for discussing end-of-life care with patients and families
The role of spirituality in end-of-life care decision-making
Navigating cultural differences in end-of-life care preferences
The role of advanced directives in patient autonomy
The ethical implications of physician-assisted suicide
Decision-Making Process Paper:
Instructions:
In this assignment, you will be writing a 6-8-page paper [excluding cover and reference pages] identifying, comparing, and contrasting at least 3 different decision-making approaches of care from a multidisciplinary perspective using a pertinent and significant topic in nursing (examples might include nursing shortage and nurse turnover, nurse staffing ratios, unit closures, and restructuring, use of contract employees (i.e., registry and travel nurses), continuous quality improvement and patient satisfaction, and magnet designation or another current and relevant nursing issue) the topic MUST BE APPROVED by your nursing instructor before writing the paper.
You are required to use APA 7th edition format and the page count does not include the title page or reference page. Reflect on your decision-making practices and the implications this will have regarding differing approaches taken by nursing leaders and staff nurses/clinical practitioners in decision-making within issues in practice. To complete this assignment, do the following:
1. Select and describe an issue in nursing that impacts nurses at all levels from bedside to advanced practice. Make sure to provide an adequate background and its significance to all levels of nursing using a strong review of the literature. Additionally, this should include a thorough literature review that provides a good understanding of what the cause of this problem is and what is suggested to address this problem. Essentially, this review must support your choices of decision-making models and this needs to include how all levels of nursing practice (the bedside nurse to the APN are impacted by the problem).
2. Identify how you would expect a nurse leader/manager, a bedside/staff nurse, and an Advanced practice nurse (CNO or NP) to address your selected issue using at least 3 different decision-making approaches that are supported by the literature review. This must first include a detailed analysis/overview of the selected decision-making models and how they are used in practice. Then a detailed analysis of how these decision-making approaches/models would address the problem/along with a detailed analysis of how each of the three selected models would be applied to address the selected issue/problem making sure to incorporate this at all levels of practice. One of the decision-making models may be more applicable to the bedside nurse; whereas the other is more applicable to the APN; however, all levels of nursing practice need to be addressed with at least one of the chosen 3 decision-making models. However, this does not mean that each decision-making model will apply to all levels of practice only that this discussion needs to include how each level of nursing practice would utilize the decision-making model to address the problem. For instance, one decision-making model may apply to the bedside nurse; the second decision-making model may be more applicable at the level of APN (CNO, NP, etc) and the other decision-making model may be best applied to the nurse manager. This section should be detailed; meaning specific, well thought out, realistic solutions of how the nurse (at the level identified; this may include more than one level for the same decision-making model or not) would address the problem using the decision-making model is provided and well supported by the literature. of the benefits and limitations of various decision-making approaches that are applied appropriately to the level of nursing practice to address the selected issue/problem. This is informed by course readings, literature, clinical scenarios, and other evidence-based and scholarly sources.
3. Prioritize the best decision-making approach/model to address the selected problem that is grounded in best practice. This should provide a well-supported rationale for this choice that includes a good comparison and contrast of the 3 chosen decision-making models that clearly illustrate why the choice was made, that is consistent with the decision-making model, and how it would address the chosen topic or problem.
4. Identify a possible funding source that would address your approach to solving the problem. For instance, if the best approach to solving the nurse-to-patient ratio problem is through the use of SDM and shared governance, perhaps you may seek a local funding source to provide you with funding to implement a small EBP or research project that would be funded by a local nursing organization such as Sigma Theta Tau or perhaps if it was geared more towards assessing the value of this model towards NP in practice than seeking a local organization that supports funding for projects being implemented by practicing NP? If seeking money for research this would need to be overseen by a nurse with a DNP or a PhD or someone with the credentials to do so that is part of their scope of practice. Consider looking at federal, state, or local organizations. For example: There are many grants available through the CDC, HRSA, etc. Again, this needs to be specifically applied with sufficient details
5. Use at least 10 current scholarly references other than your main text. Uses APA 7th edition formatting.