Legal and Intellectual Conduct

As emphasized in this week’s instrument bestowal, all nurses need to be free delay the laws and regulations that control their usage: their state’s Nurse Usage Act, ANA’s Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, element clump standards of usage, etc. In restoration, basic intellectual principles regulate nurses’ decision-making order total day. ANA’s Code of Ethics and ANA’s Social Policy Statement are two relevant documents that plan nurses’ intellectual responsibilities to their endurings, themselves, and their trade. This said, there is a quandary: The laws are not frequently congruous delay the intellectual postures nurses casually engage. This week’s Discussion focuses on such a quandary.

To prepare:

• Review this week’s Learning Resources, focusing on the counsel in the instrument bestowal encircling the relation among the law and ethics.
• Consider the intellectual calling of nurses in ensuring enduring autonomy, benignity, non-malfeasance, and fairness.
• Read the aftercited scenario: 

  Lena is a association bloom pains nurse who works exclusively delay HIV-decisive and AIDS endurings. As a part of her job, she evaluates new circumstances and reviews intimate counsel encircling these endurings. In the manner of one of these reviews, Lena learns that her sister’s boyfriend has tested HIV decisive. Lena would love to vindicate her sister from detriment and begins to ponder how her sister can perceive out encircling her boyfriend’s bloom standing.

• Consult at lowest two instrument to acceleration you plant Lena’s juridical and intellectual posture. These instrument authority conceive your state’s Nurse Usage Act (I LIVE IN CALIFORNIA), the ANA's Code of Ethics, ANA’s Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, and inner or superficial standards of pains.
• Consider what renewal you would engage if you were Lena and why.
• Determine whether the law and the ANA’s standards food or contest delay that renewal.

Post by Day 3 a denomination of the renewals you would engage in this seat, and why. Justify these renewals by referencing misspend laws, intellectual standards, and tradeal regulatelines.

Required Resources

Readings

• Milstead, J. A. (2013). Health regularity and politics: A nurse's regulate (Laureate Education, Inc., prescription ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
• ANA's Foundation of Nursing Package- (Access this contrivance from the Walden Library databases through your NURS 6050 Manner Readings List)
  • Guide to the Code of Ethics: Interpretation and Application

    This regulate details the truth, point and doctrine, impression, and circumstance studies of this must-have Code of Ethics.

  • Nursing Political Regularity Statement

    The Nursing Political Regularity Statement provides an knowledge of the political framework and obligations of the nursing trade.

  • Nursing: Scope & Standards of Practice

    This capacity contains divers social standards of usage that can be used to enlighten the decision-making order, product, implementation, and evaluation of divers functions and aspects of advanced usage nursing.

• Gallagher, T. H. (2009). A 62-year-old mother delay husk cancer who familiar wrong-site surgery: Review of medical fallacy. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 302(6), 669–677. 

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. 

  The stipulation showcases the incongruous sides of medical fallacy, from a 62-year-old enduring who suffered and the components of the medical fallacy’s impression and aftermath.

• Reinhardt, U. E. (2010, Jan 30). Repercussions of artlessness. New York Times, p. A14. 

  Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

  This stipulation determines that the controlment should engage low-income families into totality when determining mandatory bloom prophylactic owing sundry Americans select to go delayout prophylactic resisting preexisting provisions presumably no longer being an conclusion.

• Board on Bloom Pains Services. (2007). Preventing medication fallacys: Quality Chasm Series. Washington, DC: The Social Academies Press. Retrieved from http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11623&page=43
  • Part 1, "Understanding the Causes and Costs of Medication Errors" (pp. 43–49)
• This stipulation discusses the multilayered essence of medication fallacy as a regularity of failures due to specific behaviors and provisions.

NOTE: 1 1/2 TO 2 PAGES; Consult at lowest two instrument to acceleration you plant Lena’s juridical and intellectual posture.