Tasks
1.
Select one (1) situation
from the list below for this assignment. Please write the situation you chose
at the beginning of your paper.
2.
Construct a thoughtful
response to the scenario of your choice. Include the following components,
which are also listed in the assignment rubric:
· Respond to the question posed in your chosen situation
utilizing at least four (4) moral, biblical, societal, personal, or
professional values.
· Explain the strategy for integrating the four (4) values
discussed, including appropriate follow-up actions.
· Support your reasoning with at least four (4) professional
references (you may use your textbooks such as Potter, Ignativacious, etc).
· Integrate at least three (3) legal/ethical terminology
references within your paper.
· This paper is to be written in scholarly APA format. It may
be written in the first person.
· Refer to the rubric for additional details.
3.
Submit your assignment.
Your response should be at least two (2) pages in length.
Situations/Prompts: select one
· Situation 1: You are a new RN
on a medical-surgical floor. You are working with a nurse who does not
personally believe that a particular vaccine is effective or necessary. The
patient has an order to receive the vaccine. You overhear the nurse providing
patient education regarding the vaccine based upon their personal beliefs
instead of factual, evidence-based education. How would you apply your personal
values and the nursing code of ethics related to this situation of patient
education?
· Situation 2: You are a night shift
nurse in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) caring for two patients. You accidentally
give the wrong medication to one of the patients. Assuming no untoward reaction
to the actual medicine by the patient, do you report the error?
· Situation 3: During the shift report,
you are told that your patient refused her morning antibiotic, saying it
wouldn’t help, so why should they take it? The healthcare provider and the
family requested the nurses tell the patient it is a vitamin to help promote
healing, which she has agreed to take. Assuming the patient is not mentally
compromised, do you comply with this request?
· Situation 4: You are a new RN on a
medical telemetry floor and have been asked to orient a nurse to your unit. One
of your patients is in the advanced stages of cancer, on comfort care measures,
and has a do not resuscitate (DNR) code status. You have received orders to
initiate pain medications for them. Your orientee is concerned that by starting
these pain medications, their death will be “hurried.” How would you apply your
personal values and the nursing code of ethics to teaching the orientee how to
support the patient and their family?
