Discussion Topics, Mohr
Chapter 5, Legal and Ethical Aspects
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1. You are conducting an interview with a client and he reveals to you that he abuses his wife. He asks you not to tell anyone. Would you be required to keep this client’s confidentiality or to share the information with someone? How would you respond to the client? How would you feel about a client sharing this information with you and what would you do with the information? |
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2. While giving report on a mental health client to another nurse, the nurse asks you, “What is the patient’s admission status?” What is the difference between voluntary admission, emergency admission, and involuntary commitment? |
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3. An ethical dilemma is a situation in which moral and ethical principles conflict with one another. Provide an example of an ethical dilemma that you might be faced with as a nurse. |
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4. Your nursing instructor has been teaching the class about the Nurse Practice Act, Standards of Care, and the ANA Code of Ethics. How will the Nurse Practice Act and the ANA Code of Ethics influence your nursing practice? How do standards of care protect the mental health client? |
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5. Your nursing instructor has paired you with a peer group and asked you to analyze ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, paternalism, veracity, fidelity, and justice in relation to the care of the mental health client. Discuss each of these ethical principles. How would your group incorporate each ethical principle into the care of the mental health client? |
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1)Abusing can be physical or emotional ,here the patient abuses his wife.It is an important thing to keep certain things confidential but if it harms others or if it may be dangerous to others then it has to be considered. Here speaking with the wife can give a clear idea and help in treating the patient for his mental illness.
2 )Admission status refers to the number of new admissions committee of the patient in a day.Voluntary admissions means patients with sound knowledge seek medical help and gets admitted for treatment. Emergency admissions are one where a patient needs observations or treatment after any health detoriating event during hospital visit.Involuntary commitment are the admission decisided by the jurisdiction to treat the mental illness.
3)For example if an individual has declared brain dead after an accident. Doing organ donation after family consent to save multiple life is ethical but doing that when the donar is not in a sound mind or in consciousness is nor moral.
4)They influence the nursing practice in providing a quality, safe,equal care to patient.
The standard of care describes the patients has the rights to have a proper treatment and in a least restrictive environment and appropriate treatment as per the requirement of the patient.
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