Nursing Problem
Chapter 4: Ethical Issues
• Compare and contract legal and ethical issues.
• What determines how a person approaches and solves ethical dilemmas
• Define moral indifference-provide an example
• Define moral uncertainty-provide an example from your own healthcare experience
• Moral distress-provide an example from your own health care experiences
• What is an ethical dilemma? Give an example
• Describe deontological approach to ethical decision making? What does this mean?
• Describe a teleological approach to ethical decision making? What does this mean?
• Compare and contrast the 4 different frameworks for ethical decision making
• What is autonomy-give an example from your experience
• Define the following terms-how have you used/understood these principles in your nursing practice?
o Beneficence
o Paternalism
o Utility
o Justice
o Veracity
o Fidelity
o Confidentiality
• What is the MORAL decision-making model-how does this work?
• Name important strategies to promote ethical behavior in healthcare.
Chapter 5: Legal and Legislative Issues
• Define civil law and what is involved in civil cases
• What are the reasons that nurses are at increased risk for legal liability in nursing practice?
• What does the term Standard of Care mean in nursing? Why is this so important?
• Define malpractice and the term professional negligence (the 5 criteria needed to fulfill this definition)....provide examples of each criteria to deepen your understanding
• What does the term "under ordinary circumstances" means as it relates to professional negligence?
• Define these legal terms that are pertinent to nursing practice-be sure you can relate these term to nursing practice
o Stare decisis
o Liability
o tort
o respondeat superior
o vicarious liability
o product liability
o res ipsa loquitur
• Define intentional torts and give as many examples as you can related to nursing practice
• What are some common reasons nurses are sued (claims filed against them)
• BON-Board of Nursing-what is their responsibility to the public?
• Define the Nurse Practice Act and its role in your ability to practice nursing?
• Define, compare and contrast the three forms of consent:
o Informed consent
o Implied consent
o Express consent
• What is HIPAA and what is its importance to healthcare/your nursing practice?
• What are the parameters of Good Samaritan Immunity?
• Describe the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) of 1991 and how it changed healthcare
• List the common causes of nursing license revocation.
The response should include a reference list. Using one-inch margins, Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space and APA style of writing and citations.