Ethical Legal Dilemma Advanced Practice Nursing

Question Description

Case Study Ethical Legal Dilemma Advanced Practice Nursing

Course outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

MN506-1: Apply theoretical frameworks and concepts to ethical dilemmas in the advanced practice role.

PC 2.3: Demonstrate integrity through the application of relevant codes of conduct and social responsibility within one’s profession.

Please take a moment to watch this Assignment Introduction, or read the presentation transcript.

Instructions:

  1. Create an ethical legal decision-making dilemma involving an advanced practice nurse in the field of education, informatics, administration, or a nurse practitioner. Apply relevant codes of conduct that apply to the practice of nursing and your chosen field.
  2. Include one ethical principle and one law that could be violated and whether the violation would constitute a civil or criminal act based on facts.
  3. Construct a decision that demonstrates integrity and that would prevent violation of the ethical principle and prevent the law from being violated.
  4. Describe the legal principles and laws that apply to the ethical dilemma.
  5. Support the legal issues with prior legal cases or state or federal statutes.
  6. Analyze the differences between ethical and legal reasoning and apply an ethical-legal reasoning model in the case study to create a basis for a solution to the ethical-legal dilemma.
  7. List three recommendations that will resolve advanced practice nurses’ moral distress in the dilemma you have presented.
  8. Based on the issue you presented and the rules of the law, apply the laws to your case and come up with a conclusion.

Note:

  • This is a fact-based Assignment that will not include your opinion.
  • This will require research and support for what is written.
  • The Assignment should be in your words after reading the scholarly and fact-based publications and have proper citations. There should be no quotations. The professor wants to hear your voice as a masters trained nurse.

Description

In the Unit 2 topic 1 Discussion, you chose an ethical-legal dilemma that would cause the advanced practice nurse moral distress. You will write the introductory paragraphs for the Unit 4 Assignment.

You will continue working on the topic you have chosen and submit the paper using the most recent version of APA format. The paper should have a minimum of seven citations and some of these should be case law or applicable statutes. The Library has Westlaw Campus Research database where you can find case laws that relate to your topic. The APA Manual and the textbook have instructions on legal formatting.

Due: Day 7 by 11:59 p.m. (ET)

To view the Grading Rubric for this Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Resources.

Assignment Requirements:

Before finalizing your work, you should:

  • be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);
  • consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course Resources) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
  • utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Your writing Assignment should:

  • follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
  • be well ordered , logical, and unified , as well as original and insightful;
  • display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and
  • use APA 6th Edition format.

How to Submit:

Submit your Assignment to the unit Dropbox before midnight on the last day of the unit.

There is no page requirement for Unit 4 Assignment. However, the assignment has specific components that should be addressed in the paper.

Although there is no page requirement for the assignment, there are key ideas that should be obvious in the paper.

This assignment is not a “general essay” paper. The paper should demonstrate professional graduate level work. Analysis and synthesis of information should be evident in the paper.

 
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