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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?
Beneficence
Paternalism
Utility
Justice
Veracity
Fidelity
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
Stare decisis
Liability
tort
respondeat superior
vicarious liability
product liability
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:
Informed consent
Implied consent
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

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Ethical Issues

Issues by nature are many and, today, many issues are brought up and are questioned upon their varying natures. Ethical and legal issues, being two kinds of issues that are often brought up especially in organizations, are two terms that often clash with one another and at the same time working with one another on different occasions, as well. Ethical issues are not governed by a set of rules and thereby are not punishable by law. Legal issues have a set of rules on which they are based and are punishable by law if those rules are not adhered by. What is legal can be unethical. For example, the firing of an employee by a company is not illegal but may be unethical. What is ethical can be illegal. For example, euthanasia may be viewed as ethical, but it is illegal in most jurisdictions.

sounds, it’s the truth. We do not instil the significance of a foreign language into young students, and it shows in the carryover to their teenage years. We do not see the seriousness of teaching students to learn a foreign language. In fact, the statistics of the United States foreign language curriculum, compared to those of other countries, is quite shocking (to say the least). In Europe, for example, more than ninety percent of students in elementary schools are made to learn English (Beale 2). Counties around the world see new languages as an opportunity and a pathway, and make sure it is a top priority to be taught in schools (2). Meanwhile, schools in the United States have never made this a priority (2). A 2006 study showed that about 200 million Chinese students were learning English, while only about 24,000 American students were learning their language of Chinese (3). Schools all over the U.S. are seeing a rise in budget cuts, which ultimately leads to the slack in the foreign language classes (1). The reason these classes are the first to go? Simple. They are not seen as a necessary course of study, like reading or history may be (2). Author David L. Sigsbee mentions this exact problem in his article “Why Americans Don’t Study Foreign Languages and What We Can Do About That.” Sigsbee argues his point by mentioning not only the cuts of these classes but their lack of continuity throughout the years (47). Students often take one year of foreign language in elementary school, two years their freshman and sophomore years of high school, and two years during college (46-47). With little-to-no continuous study, how are students expected to become fluent? Basically, what we’re saying is, there is no constant instruction throughout their school years, which does students no good. With all of this said, one can now see Caplan and Carbonell’s point of view, but I would still disagree. Yes, the school curriculum of foreign languages is lacking, but throwing it out altogether is entirely unnecessary. Not ever attempting to learn a foreign language because of the missteps in our e

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